How to Recover SOL from Trading Bots on Solana: Bonkbot, Trojan, Photon & BullX

Solana trading bots like Bonkbot, Trojan, Photon, and BullX have become incredibly popular for sniping and trading meme coins. But there's a hidden cost: every trade these bots execute creates new token accounts in your wallet, each locking approximately 0.00204 SOL in rent deposits.

If you use a trading bot to buy and sell 20 tokens per day, that's 20 new token accounts created daily. Over a month, that's roughly 600 empty accounts -- locking up over 1.2 SOL in rent deposits. For active bot users, this hidden cost can significantly eat into profits.

The problem is that trading bots focus on execution speed and don't clean up after themselves. When a bot sells all of a token, it doesn't close the empty account. The rent SOL stays locked, invisible to most users unless they specifically look for it.

To recover SOL from trading bot accounts, you need to close the empty token accounts left behind. SolWipe makes this simple: connect the wallet your bot uses, and SolWipe will find every empty account -- regardless of whether it was created by Bonkbot, Trojan, Photon, BullX, or manual trading.

Important note: Make sure the bot is not actively using any accounts before closing them. SolWipe only identifies accounts with a zero token balance, so active positions are never affected. It's completely safe to close zero-balance accounts even if you're running a bot on the same wallet.

Best practice for bot users: Run SolWipe weekly on your bot wallet. This keeps your rent deposits recovered and your wallet clean. At 0.00204 SOL per account, recovering 100 accounts per week returns about 0.20 SOL -- that adds up to over 10 SOL per year just from housekeeping.

Wallet separation

Many traders use a dedicated hot wallet for bots. If that is your setup, schedule cleanup on that wallet only—your long-term holdings wallet may need less frequent passes unless you also trade there.

Related reading

• Solana wallet cleanup after meme coins
• Beginner mistakes in Solana DeFi

If empty token accounts are locking SOL in your wallet, scan them free on SolWipe and reclaim the rent deposits you approve closing.