Bonk.fun volume bot: the LetsBonk curve and what follows it
Bonk.fun launches sit on the LetsBonk curve, built on Raydium infrastructure, and graduate into Raydium pools rather than PumpSwap. That single difference changes where a campaign routes after migration, which pools carry the depth, and how quickly aggregator flow starts finding the token.
What Bonk.fun actually is
Bonk.fun, usually seen under the LetsBonk name, is a Solana launchpad built on Raydium's launch infrastructure and wrapped in the BONK ecosystem. Mechanically it does what every launchpad does: a new token starts on a bonding curve, buyers move it up that curve, and once the curve fills the token migrates into a real pool with real depth.
What distinguishes it is the destination and the audience. The destination is Raydium, which matters for routing. The audience is a community that already exists around BONK, which matters for whether a launch gets any organic attention at all - and no volume tool can manufacture that part.
How it differs from Pump.fun
| Bonk.fun | Pump.fun | |
|---|---|---|
| Curve | LetsBonk, on Raydium infrastructure | Pump.fun's own curve program |
| Migrates to | Raydium pool | PumpSwap pool |
| Reply thread | Yes | Yes |
| Daily mint volume | Lower | Much higher |
| Community gravity | BONK-adjacent | General memecoin flow |
For a campaign the operationally important row is the second one. Every other difference is context; the migration target is what decides whether your volume keeps landing after the most important moment in the token's life.
Running volume on the curve
Curve trading has the same three characteristics wherever it happens, and they all argue for restraint rather than brute force.
- Every trade moves price. There is no depth to absorb a buy. A campaign weighted too heavily toward buys walks the price up and leaves an obvious shape on the chart, which is the opposite of what you are paying for.
- Slot contention is real. Fresh launches are among the most contested transactions on Solana. Bundling through Jito keeps a campaign's order flow out of the public mempool where searchers look for exactly this pattern.
- Wallet spacing is the tell. Clustering heuristics do not look for volume, they look for regularity: identical amounts, even intervals, one funding source fanning out to hundreds of addresses. Randomised sizing inside a band and jittered spacing are what keep a campaign from reading as a loop.
The console defaults to a balanced buy ratio for exactly this reason. Pure buy pressure is available if you want it, but it is rarely the right answer on a curve.
After graduation: Raydium
When the curve fills, liquidity moves into a Raydium pool and the token starts behaving like an ordinary AMM pair. Three things change at once:
- Depth absorbs trades. Price impact per swap drops sharply, so the same SOL produces more volume and less chart distortion.
- Aggregators can route to it. Once a Raydium pool exists, Jupiter and other routers can find the token, which means organic flow has a path in that did not exist during the curve phase.
- The venue set widens. Other pools may appear over time. A campaign that keeps routing by live pool depth picks those up automatically; one pinned to a single pool address does not.
This is why the handoff is automatic here rather than a setting you have to remember. You pick Bonk.fun as the launchpad, and the router deals with what the token becomes afterwards. If you want the mechanics of the destination in more detail, the Raydium volume bot guide covers AMM and CLMM pools specifically.
Replies and favorites
Bonk.fun token pages carry a reply thread the same way Pump.fun does, and the platform's discovery surfaces weigh activity there. That makes the engagement layer available on Bonk.fun campaigns: replies as a share of swaps, favorites as a share of wallets, both defaulting to zero and both drawn from a library of more than 10,000 English lines.
The same caveat applies as everywhere else on this site: replies are engagement, not endorsement. They put a token in front of people at the discovery stage. Whether anyone stays is decided by the token, not by the thread.
Planning a Bonk.fun campaign
Three decisions do most of the work.
Timing. Pre-graduation attention is the scarce resource. A dense campaign in the hours when the board is actually being watched beats the same volume trickled across a day, because discovery surfaces mostly read recent activity.
Size. Do not guess. Open a screener, look at Bonk.fun tokens sitting where you want to be, read their volume across the window you care about, and target something comparable. The volume sizing guide walks through the method in full.
Shape. Steady flow suits a sustained 24-hour figure. A front-loaded burst suits a listing or announcement moment. A ramp suits a launch you expect to build. The same total produces very different charts depending on which you pick.
Everything else - fee, swap band, wallet count - is arithmetic the console shows you before you commit. There are no tiers and no per-wallet charges to reverse-engineer.
Frequently asked questions
01Where does a Bonk.fun token go after it graduates?
Into Raydium. LetsBonk is built on Raydium launch infrastructure, so migration hands liquidity to a Raydium pool rather than to PumpSwap. A campaign has to follow that pool, and if you are comparing tools, ask specifically which venue their handoff targets - a bot hardcoded to PumpSwap will simply stop.
02Is the reply layer available on Bonk.fun?
Yes. Bonk.fun and Pump.fun are the two launchpads where replies and favorites exist as platform features, so the engagement controls unlock for both. On every other venue there is nothing to post against and the layer stays disabled.
03Does Bonk.fun have less competition than Pump.fun?
Usually fewer daily mints, which means less noise to cut through, but also a smaller pool of traders browsing the board at any moment. Neither is strictly better. What matters more is where your audience already is - a token whose community lives in BONK-adjacent circles reads very differently on Bonk.fun than on Pump.fun.
04Can I run volume before the curve fills?
Yes, and that is usually the point. Pre-graduation is when a launch is competing hardest for attention. The trade-off is that curve trading is contested and price moves on every fill, so the buy-to-sell ratio and spacing matter more there than they do in a deep pool later on.
05What does a Bonk.fun campaign cost?
The same as any other campaign here: a flat 2% of the target volume you configure, with network fees, Jito tips and wallet funding included. Minimum target volume is 50 SOL. Nothing about the launchpad changes the price.
06Do I need a different tool for Bonk.fun and Pump.fun?
No. You pick the launchpad in the console and routing adjusts, including the handoff destination after graduation. Running separate tools per launchpad mostly means paying twice for the same engine.
Keep reading
Run a Bonk.fun campaign end to end
Curve while it is pre-migration, Raydium after. Pick Bonk.fun as the launchpad and the routing follows.
Open the volume console