Trojan Bot vs. Maestro

Trading bots are essential for any active crypto trader. And if you’re trenching meme coins, forget about operating without one.

More than 30,000 coins launch every day. Trying to capture a fraction of the moves on your own is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse.

There’s so many bots on the market, you say. Which one is best?

My friend, welcome home. This is the third drop in our series of “vs blogs” detailing major players (including some history you might not know), how we stack up, and why we think you should choose us. 

Isn’t that advertising the competition, you ask? Kind of. With the best product and rewards on the market, we think if we give you the information, you’ll come to the same conclusion 2 million other users have: Trojan on Solana wins. So the sooner you know, the sooner we get beyond the searching and start the trading.

Today, it’s Us vs. Maestro. 

Someone hit the lights.

If you’re new, we’ve got a blog that covers the basics of Telegram trading bots and if you’d like to read the rest of the “vs. series” it’s on our Trojan on Solana blog.

Who is Maestro?

Maestro is the OG of trading bots. Launched in mid 2022, it’s been around longer than any other Telegram trading bot. However, Maestro didn’t actually add Solana coverage until early 2024. This means they’ve had considerable time to both develop their product and accumulate a userbase, but might be more finicky when it comes to our favorite blockchain. Here’s a quick comparison on major lifetime metrics:

Maestro is non-custodial, as they should be, but there are some limitations in functionality we’ll get into.

What are their Pros?

We’re going to do our best to give the proper rundown here, but first a note. Going through Maestro’s docs can be…difficult. Since we limit our focus to Solana functionality, and Maestro docs have no distinct segregation by chain but are just all mixed together, it is possible that we may miss nuances.

Multichain

Currently Maestro functions across SOL, BSC, BASE, ETH, SONIC, AVAX, ARB, HYPE, TRX, and TON. Which is a lot. And with some differentiated features for different chains, ensuring you’re reading about the chain you’re interested in using needs close attention. They also include bridging between supported chains.

Broad Tooling

As would be hoped for in a bot that has been in development for this long, almost all the standard tools are available to users. But not all. Autosells, copy trades, autosniper, and multibuys are there. But there’s one glaring omission we’ll cover in cons.

Channel Scraper

When set up and customized, this tool runs trades based on CAs posted by user-specified groups of people in user-specified Telegram channels. Technically, it’s a separate tool developed by Maestro. 

It does require users to download a program, hook up some api keys, and provide connection to their Telegram. It’s on the slightly more advanced side of operations, the average user probably won’t be doing this. And you can kiss privacy goodbye.

Muti Wallet and Premium

Base-level users can have 3-5 wallets per chain (there is some disparity in the docs on this). Premium-level users can have up to 10. There are a whole list of bumped up benefits that require a $200/month Premium subscription to have:

• more concurrent trades

• longer trade monitors

• more wallets

• more copy trade wallets

• more autosnipes

What are their Cons?

We’re not into mud-slinging, but it wouldn’t be due diligence to ignore the 2023 router exploit. It happened. About 250 ETH worth was stolen in user token value. Maestro caught it and tried to reimburse users. If you want to read up on it, there’s a post-mortem write up here. Moving on to current day and functionalities:

Limited Rewards/Referrals

25% for direct referrals, no secondary referral rewards (i.e. you don’t earn rewards from referrals of referrals), and no Cashback. 

Navigation Issues

One of the running difficulties for most other bots we encounter. It is easy to get lost in the interface and often difficult to find the sought after tool, option, or information. Some of this is familiarity and much of it is design. Nesting logically and efficiently requires intention.

No DCA. Again. 

We’re not sure why this particular tool, which we see as standard, is not included so frequently, but despite searching through Maestro’s documentation, we couldn’t find any mention of a DCA functionality. There’s also no migration sniper.

Burn Ban

Like BONKbot, users who want to offload unwanted or rugged tokens and recapture some SOL have no native options. Export of the wallet and connection to third-party apps seems to be the only recourse.

Missing Extra Security 

Essentially, with Maestro, if someone has access to your Telegram app, they have complete access to your funds. There is no option for a security password or a requirement for a 2FA app to withdraw funds. In addition, should a user fail to write down their mnemonic and/or private key when the wallet is originally generated, there is no option to show it again at a later date. So if you didn’t write it down, you can’t export the wallet.

There are a few other issues that are potentially problematic for users, but these are the big hits. 

Who is Trojan on Solana?

Trojan on Solana has grown and expanded dramatically since our launch by a small, dedicated core team in early 2024. We built our proprietary routing engine from the ground up to be the fastest most accurate on the market. 

Since the release of the bot, Trojan on Solana has taken the number one spot and stayed there. We top all Telegram trading bot metrics, including lifetime users, volume, and rewards paid out. Onchain analytics are available here. 

What are our Pros?

So, how do we stack up against Maestro? Let’s look at where we hit when they miss.

Referrals and Rewards

We cannot say enough about this. Trojan on Solana has, hands down, the top shared growth system in the Telegram trading bot game: 

• We offer a 20% Cashback program. It returns a portion of your fees to you, essentially dropping the trading fee from 0.9% to 0.72%.

• And, we have a 5-tier referral program. It gives up to 35% for immediate referrals (other tiers are 3.5%, 2.5%, 2%, and 1%). No cutoffs. No time constraints.

Clearly Designed

We spent a great deal of time organizing and arranging our UI and the menu access of our Telegram bot interface. We’re traders, trenchers, and degens. We know what you need quick and regular access to, because it’s what we want also. Our trading bot is thoughtfully built, and therefore intuitive.

DCA? Yes. Plus Burn.

Trojan on Solana provides the Dollar-Cost Average (DCA) feature, among a slew of others. We also have a migration sniper. And if you’ve got rugged tokens taking up space in your wallet, you can natively burn them and recapture the SOL. 

Simple Security

Trojan on Solana has implemented SAP (secure action password). With this extra measure in place, should a malicious actor ever get access to your Telegram account, they won’t be able to withdraw your funds or retrieve your private keys without your password. This also means we can allow you the option to retrieve your private keys if you didn’t write them down or misplaced them (really this should be standard).

And Docs

In doing the research for this blog, we were struck by what a difference documents organization makes in getting a clear understanding of how a platform works. Time and again we got confused by what we read on Maestro’s documentation. Trojan on Solana has spent a lot of time making life easier with clear, comprehensive, well-organized docs. 

This is not a completely comprehensive list of course (we have multiwallet without up-charges, we have a Simple and Advanced UI mode, etc.), but it hits some of the main highlights.

What are our Cons?

It’s always hard to look objectively at oneself. But we’re going for honest assessments here, so a couple things:

Cross Chain 

We’ve touched this before, but we’ll say it again. It’s an intentional decision to not expand to other chains yet. Why? Solana is the Autobahn, The Grand Prix, The Indy 500 of crypto. 

It’s where the action is. When we choose to offer tools on other chains, they will be the best anywhere. But we’re not going to sprinkle extra chains in just because it’s an easy way to increase our fee capture.

Channel Scraper / Call Channel

With our focus on building Trojan on Solana, we never felt it necessary to also build out a scraper. And frankly, in crypto trading, downloads and api connections have the potential to create problems. Likewise, we don’t have a call channel because it would be too easy to see users claiming abuse. We prefer to just provide the best tools and let you do the deciding.

Just One Bridge

Somewhat in line with the absence of multichain, we only provide an ETH<->SOL bridge. And tbh, this would be a nice add. Maybe if we find a quality, trusted route for this one we implement it.

And Just One Tier

Not really sure if this qualifies as a con or a pro. We don’t do tiers or pay to play or any of that other stuff. It’s just not a part of the Trojan on Solana ethos. We provide the best tools possible, we charge a flat fee. Seriously, life is complicated enough. 

Which is better?

Bet you’ll never guess who we recommend.

If you said Trojan on Solana, without sounding cynical, you win. Seriously, if we didn’t think we were the best choice, would we advertise it?

In good faith though, there is a subset of folks who might want to incorporate Maestro into their trading toolkit. Mainly, if you’ve just got to have cross-chain operation or the scraper. Here’s a quick comparison table to help:

So, this is going to be nearly everyone. If you desperately need to trade on like Avalanche, you could have a side wallet for that, but otherwise, it’s Trojan all the way.

Conclusion

Another one in the bag. We hope you’ve benefited from the series so far. If you missed a post, click over to our blogs and check ‘em out, along with a host of other investigations and discussions.

If you’re looking to get into Trojan on Solana, you may want to read through some of the documentation we’ve put together.

And if you’re ready to jump in and hit the gas on your trading journey with the best bot around, here’s a direct Telegram trading bot link. Thanks for hanging with us, and we’ll see you in the next one!