Paper vs Live

Every bot is either paper or live, and it stays that way. The Paper / Live toggle at the top of Trade with AI switches which bots you see.

Paper bots

A paper bot trades simulated SOL at real market prices, and pays the same fees a live bot would.

• Your paper pool starts with 10 paper SOL. Move some to a bot with Add balance on its Fleet card.
• When less than 2 SOL is left to allocate, Request sol appears next to Total Paper Balance. The team then adds 10 paper SOL.
• Paper SOL moves between your bots and the pool, but it can never be withdrawn.

Live bots

A live bot trades real SOL from its own wallet. Live trading has to be enabled for your account. If a paper bot shows no Go Live button, it is not enabled for you yet.

Go live

1. Press Go Live

   On a paper bot's dashboard, press Go Live, then Start Live Trading.

2. Fund the new bot

   Trenchers copies the strategy into a new live bot with its own wallet. That wallet starts empty: fund it with Fund wallet.

3. Start it

   Press Start. Once the live bot runs, the paper bot moves to Archived.

Why paper can look better

Paper fills land instantly at the price the bot sees. Live trades take a moment to land, can fill at a worse price within your slippage, and sometimes fail and retry. Expect live results to trail the paper bot they came from.