How to build a Solana trading bot

By BLIX · Updated 2026-10-10 · APIs, live data and MCP

API and MCP access come with every BLIX account · sign in with Google · checked October 10, 2026

1. Data: your BLIX account

# your session is on https://blixvip.com/developers once you are signed in
export BLIX_SESSION="<from your Developers page>"
curl -s https://blixvip.com/api/pulse -H "cookie: blix_wait=$BLIX_SESSION" | head -c 600

You now have every pump.fun launch (launch events on the stream), the Pulse (/api/pulse), every coin's holders with dev, sniper and bundle tags (/api/holders), candles, real Jupiter quotes, signals and the AI's reads.

2. A rule worth testing

Start with a rule that avoids the obvious losers rather than one that predicts winners:

# python: clean final-stretch coins with real buyers
import os, requests, time
BLIX = "https://blixvip.com"; CK = {"blix_wait": os.environ["BLIX_SESSION"]}
def clean(mint):
    h = requests.get(f"{BLIX}/api/holders/{mint}", params={"top": 10}, cookies=CK).json()
    return (not h.get("partial") and h["bundle"]["pct"] < 15 and h["snipers"]["pct"] < 15
            and h["dev"]["pct"] < 5 and h["dev"]["sold"] != "all" and h["top10"] < 35)
def candidates():
    for c in requests.get(f"{BLIX}/api/pulse", cookies=CK).json()["stretch"]:
        if c["hl"]["h"] >= 60 and c["traders"] >= 40 and c["ai"]["grade"] in ("A", "B") and clean(c["mint"]):
            yield c

3. Test it at real quotes, with paper money

Your paper desk fills at the real Jupiter quote with slippage and runs take profit, stop loss and trailing stop on the server. Your bot opens positions; BLIX closes them by the rule; /api/paper and /api/picks show the result.

seen = set()
while True:
    for c in candidates():
        if c["mint"] in seen: continue
        seen.add(c["mint"])
        r = requests.post(f"{BLIX}/api/paper/quoted", json={"mint": c["mint"], "sol": 0.25, "tp": 2.0, "sl": 40, "trail": 25}, cookies=CK).json()
        print("paper buy", c["symbol"], r)
    time.sleep(5)

Run it for a week. Compare with GET /api/perf (how each signal type does) and GET /api/picks (how BLIX's own picks rule does by stage and reason). Most first rules lose; the point is to find out at zero cost.

4. Use the signals with a record

Instead of inventing rules, subscribe to signal events on the stream and act only on the types whose record is good: smart-wallet buys, AI buy calls, dev sells to exit. The record per type is on /api/perf, and a positive signal is never raised on a coin that failed safety.

5. Execution, when you are ready

The BLIX API never signs: real trades are made in the terminal, in one click, with the same exits. If you build your own execution, it is your code with your own key: a Jupiter swap transaction signed with your wallet's keypair and sent through your RPC with a priority fee, in a wallet funded only with what the bot may lose, with per-trade and per-day limits in code, kept in a separate process from the data side.

Mistakes that cost money

• Buying in the first block: you are the sniper everyone else screens out.
• Trusting volume: a bot trading with itself makes volume; fees paid and distinct traders do not lie.
• Skipping the sell quote: a coin you cannot sell is not a position. Quote the sell before the buy.
• No exit rule: the paper desk's take profit, stop and trailing stop exist because people do not sell.
• Keys in the data process: one bug and the bot spends everything. Separate them.

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Memecoins are extremely risky and most go to zero. Nothing on this page is financial advice.

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