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What is pipboi?

onasidequestt/pipboi — explained in plain English

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★ 0PythonAudience · generalComplexity · 4/5LicenseSetup · moderate

In one sentence

A self-hosted bot that automatically trades Solana memecoins from your own wallet, with an evidence-based system for proving its trading edge.

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    What it does
      Trade Solana memecoins
      Score candidate tokens
      Log evidence of edge
    Tech stack
      Python
      Solana
      Helius API
      Claude
    Use cases
      Run an autonomous trading bot
      Study its trade history
      Check status via Claude
    Audience
      Vibe coders
      Traders

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Run an autonomous bot that discovers, buys, and sells newly launched Solana memecoins from your own wallet.

USE CASE 2

Track every trade the bot makes along with the stated reason it closed, through a local dashboard.

USE CASE 3

Test whether a trading rule has a real edge using the bot's built-in evidence and kill-criterion checks.

USE CASE 4

Ask Claude in plain English how the bot is currently performing without opening a browser.

What is it built with?

PythonSolanaHelius APIClaude

How does it compare?

onasidequestt/pipboi0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch3ks/embedoc
Stars00—
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed——2023-06-08
Maintenance——Dormant
Setup difficultymoderatemoderatehard
Complexity4/54/51/5
Audiencegeneraldeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Needs a Python virtual environment, a free Helius API key, and a funded Solana wallet to trade for real.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

So what is it?

PIPBOI is an open source trading bot that automatically buys and sells newly launched memecoins on the Solana blockchain, using your own wallet and your own machine rather than any hosted account or server. The project is upfront that this is experimental and risky: it describes itself as a research platform for learning and testing autonomous trading, not a guaranteed way to make money, and it warns clearly that you can lose the funds you put into it. The bot works by pulling in candidate tokens from free data sources like GeckoTerminal and DexScreener, scoring them, deciding whether to buy, and later deciding when to exit a position based on rules like stop losses or trailing exits. It also keeps a record of how each token it looked at actually performed afterward, and uses that history to test whether its trading rules are actually working before it allows itself to increase the size of its trades. The project describes this evidence based gate as the core discipline of the whole system. You can check on the bot two ways: a web dashboard that runs on your own computer at localhost, showing wallet balance, profit and loss, and every trade with an explanation of why it closed, or by asking questions in plain English to Claude, since the project includes a file that gives Claude the context needed to explain the bot's status or help you set it up. There is also a quick way to try the tool that just prints a status card in your terminal without needing any wallet or API keys. To run the full bot, you set up a Python virtual environment, install the listed dependencies, and provide a free API key from a service called Helius, either by pasting it into a setup page in your browser, running an interactive setup script, or asking Claude to walk you through it. The bot can generate a brand new wallet for you to fund, or you can point it at your own existing wallet. The project states that it does not send your keys or data anywhere and stores them only in local files on your machine. It is released under the MIT license.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through setting up PIPBOI with a Helius API key and starting it for the first time.
Prompt 2
Explain how PIPBOI decides when to exit a trading position.
Prompt 3
Show me how to check PIPBOI's current status and recent trades from the terminal.
Prompt 4
Help me understand what the kill_criterion.py and prove_edge.py checks are testing for.

Frequently asked questions

What is pipboi?

A self-hosted bot that automatically trades Solana memecoins from your own wallet, with an evidence-based system for proving its trading edge.

What language is pipboi written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Solana, Helius API.

What license does pipboi use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is pipboi to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is pipboi for?

Mainly general.

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