Building a Solana Trading Bot on Telegram

I started building a Solana trading bot about six months ago because I was tired of the swap-through-browser workflow. Open Phantom, connect to Jupiter, set slippage, confirm, wait, check if it went through. For a single trade that's fine. When you're trying to catch a pump.fun token in the first 30 seconds, it's way too slow. So I built a Telegram bot that lets me buy and sell any Solana token in one tap. Then I kept adding features. Now it's 4,500 lines of Node.js and I trade almost exclusively through it. Here's how the whole thing works. Architecture: No Frameworks, Just HTTP The bot is pure Node.js. No telegraf , no grammY , no bot framework at all. I hit the Telegram Bot API directly with HTTPS requests. Why? Frameworks add abstraction I didn't need. The Telegram Bot API is just a REST API. You poll for updates, you send messages. That's it. A framework would give me middleware patterns and plugin systems when all I wanted was to parse a callback query and execute a swap. The mai