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Photon
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Photon

01Description

Browser-based Solana memecoin trading terminal by Tinyastro. Aggregates Raydium, Pump.fun bonding curves, Meteora, and other Solana AMMs behind a fast trading UI with built-in wallet, charts, and snipe presets.

02Best for
  • 01Solana memecoin sniping
  • 02fast manual SPL swaps
  • 03Pump.fun + Raydium routing
  • 04browser-based trading terminals
  • 05embedded wallet trading UX
05Prompt snippet
Photon is an end-user web terminal at `photon-sol.tinyastro.io` — there is no public REST or SDK. Integrate by deep-linking users into Photon (e.g. `https://photon-sol.tinyastro.io/en/lp/{poolOrMint}`) for chart + buy/sell, and by mirroring its UX patterns: a built-in burner wallet that signs locally, Jito bundles for MEV protection, slippage and priority-fee presets per trade, and Pump.fun/Raydium aggregation. For programmatic Solana memecoin trading, pair this entry with Jupiter (quote/swap), Helius (RPC + Pump.fun webhooks), and Birdeye (prices/OHLCV).
06Gotchas
  • Photon's built-in wallet is a hot wallet held in the browser — for any non-trivial bag, withdraw to a hardware wallet between sessions.
  • Memecoin pairs routinely have 30–90% slippage and can be honeypots; Photon's audit panel is heuristic, not a guarantee — set max-slippage caps and use simulate-before-buy.
  • There is no documented public API — anything that looks like an API is internal and can break without notice; don't build production flows on scraped endpoints.
  • Photon charges a 1% fee per buy/sell on top of network fees and Jito tips, which materially affects scalping PnL.
  • Account creation and certain features may be geo-restricted; users in some jurisdictions are blocked at the IP/CDN layer.
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