Quick start

Six steps, from paying to your first live trade. You make about six decisions and never need a terminal. The descriptions under "What you see" tell you what each screen looks like.

1. Choose and pay

Open allenhark.com/bots and press Start.

What you see: one screen. The Solana Block-0 Sniper on Pump.fun is already picked, with a one-line helper if you'd rather have the Solana Momentum Sniper. Below it: a short risk note to tick, the add-ons (none picked), and the monthly total. On a phone the total stays at the bottom of the screen.

• New to bots? You're asked once. "New" keeps the app in Simple mode and walks you through the first run; "experienced" turns on Advanced. You can change it any time.
• Customise opens the region (Frankfurt, Amsterdam or New York), extra launchpads for the Solana Block-0 Sniper, and the add-ons. Most people change nothing here.
• Add-ons are optional. Each has one line on what it is and why you might want it, and you can add them later from Billing. See Plans and billing.

Then pay. Checkout shows the exact amount first.

2. Setting up

What you see: a progress page with four plain steps: Preparing your server · Connecting to Solana · Installing your bot · Ready, and a time estimate. It usually takes about 4 minutes.

You don't have to wait on the page. We email you when it's ready, and send you an alert on Telegram or Discord if you've connected alerts.

3. Practising with virtual SOL

When setup finishes, the bot starts by itself in practice. It watches real new launches and trades them with 10 virtual SOL. Nothing is sent to the network and no real SOL is used, but fees and slippage are counted, so practice results aren't flattered.

Your bot's real wallet is created on your server at the same time. You don't need to do anything with it yet.

What you see: Home, with a first-run card across the top: "Your bot is practising with virtual SOL", how many practice trades it has made, and the next steps. Practice PnL is grey and marked Practice. Below it, "Right now" says what the bot is doing, for example "Last buy 12 min ago · 3 open", or why it bought nothing lately.

Let it run. After about 20 practice trades the card shows how it did. If it hasn't bought anything for a while, that's usually its filters doing their job; see Troubleshooting.

You can reset practice to a fresh 10 virtual SOL (or another amount) whenever you change your strategy.

4. Choose how careful it should be

What you see: three choices, Safer, Balanced and Riskier, each with one line on what it does and two numbers: the most SOL that can be in trades at once, and roughly what a trade that hits your stop loss loses.

Balanced is the starting point. Safer buys fewer tokens and sells more of each one straight away; Riskier buys more and holds longer for bigger runs, which also means bigger losses. You can fine-tune spend per token, take profit and stop loss on the Strategy page; Strategy explains every control.

Before saving a change, the practice comparison shows how the last 7 days would have gone with the new settings next to your current ones, including the worst day and the worst trade.

5. Add SOL

Open Wallet and choose Deposit.

What you see: your bot's address as text and as a QR code, an Open in Phantom button (on a phone it opens Phantom with the amount filled in; any Solana wallet works), and a suggested amount. When the SOL lands, the page shows "Arrived".

Most people start with 0.5 to 1 SOL. The SOL stays in your bot's own wallet on your server; you can withdraw it whenever you like. The address you sent from is offered as your first withdraw address later.

6. Go live

Press Go live on Home or on the bot's page.

What you see:

1. Your practice result, for example "120 trades, 48 won, worst trade −0.03 SOL".
2. The worst case in one sentence, for example "At most 0.5 SOL can be in trades at once".
3. A box to tick: "I understand I can lose up to 0.5 SOL".
4. Your PIN. If you haven't chosen one yet, you choose it here. Your server asks for it whenever money leaves your wallet or you go live.

From then on the bot trades your real SOL, within your limits. Live PnL is shown in colour; practice is kept separate.

After you're live

• Pause buying is the calm main action on the bot's page: the bot stops buying and keeps managing what it holds.
• Pause all, at the top of every page, pauses or stops every bot at once. See Limits and safety.
• Back to practice is in the bot's menu, with a confirm.
• Connect alerts on Telegram or Discord to hear about take profits, stop losses and problems on your phone.