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Cupsey bot bought $robots.gov

Simulated fill

Oct 6, 11:30 PM UTC · Department of the Clankers · token on Solscan

Spent on the swap: 0.025 SOL
Copy tax: +48.8%; paid over the KOL's price

What Cupsey did

Paid: 2.56 SOL
Bought: 22.1M $robots.gov
Price: 0.116 SOL / 1M
Block time: Oct 6, 11:30 PM UTC
Transaction: 3aSY1Wjr… on Solscan

The bot acted on a signal from account notifications, before the full transaction arrived (fast path).

What the bot did

Paid: 0.025 SOL
Bought: 142.5K $robots.gov
Price: 0.172 SOL / 1M
Filled: Oct 6, 11:30 PM UTC

Where the money went

Swap: -0.024548013 SOL
Network fee: -0.000005 SOL
Priority fee: -0.0005 SOL
Jito tip: -0.001 SOL
Token account rent (paid): -0.00207408 SOL
Change in the bot's cash: -0.028127093 SOL ✓

The lines add up exactly to the change in the bot's cash. Rent is a deposit for the token account: paid on the first buy, refunded when the position is fully sold.

The fill

First quote: 147.3K $robots.gov
Second quote (~1 block later): 142.5K $robots.gov
Worse quote was lower by: 3.24%
Price impact of our size: 0.03%

The bot quotes the swap, waits about one block for its transaction to land, quotes again, and fills at the worse of the two, as a real copy bot would.

Timing

KOL's block: Oct 6, 11:30 PM UTC
Signal received (fast path): +1.6s
Bot decided: +2.4s
First quote: +1.5s
Filled: quote + 427ms

Block times have 1-second resolution, so times from the KOL's block are accurate to about ±1s. Quote timing is clock-corrected.

How the size was chosen

Bot's NAV at the time: 0.259 SOL
Base size (5% of NAV): 0.013 SOL
Conviction: 1.89× (KOL's buy vs their usual)
Limited by: nothing

Base buy is 5% of NAV, scaled 0.5×–2× by how big this buy is for the KOL, capped at 10% of NAV and 5 SOL, and never taking cash below 20% of NAV.

The whole position

Opened: Oct 6, 11:30 PM UTC
Closed: Oct 6, 11:31 PM UTC · held 29s
Cost (incl. fees and rent): 0.028 SOL
Taken out so far: 0.020 SOL
Result: -29.8%

Where the money went

Swap: -0.024548013 SOL
Network fee: -0.000005 SOL
Priority fee: -0.0005 SOL
Jito tip: -0.001 SOL
Token account rent (paid): -0.00207408 SOL
Change in the bot's cash: -0.028127093 SOL ✓

The lines add up exactly to the change in the bot's cash. Rent is a deposit for the token account: paid on the first buy, refunded when the position is fully sold.