Banana Gun
Last changed 2026-11-02 · Fact-check review — Fact-check review (verdict: revise): the reviewer checked the page's claims against its sources; the trust score did not change. Version history →
Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| The subject's own conduct | -16 |
| Concerns that are not fraud | -9.6 |
| Incidents it suffered (e.g. hacks) | -3.2 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -0.8 |
| Long-running | +2 |
| Sum | 37 |
- 1 section set aside: the claims did not hold up in a fact-check, pending correction.
Score: 37/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →Page reliability: Fact-checked 2026-11-02 · 13 of 16 claims confirmed · 3 need better sources
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Banana Gun is a Telegram-based crypto trading bot launched in 2023 that allows users to snipe token launches on EVM chains and Solana. The project has experienced two major security incidents: a smart contract bug at token launch in September 2023 that caused the BANANA token to crash 99.7%, and a $3 million exploit in September 2024 in which attackers leveraged a Telegram message oracle vulnerability to drain 11 users. Separate, unresolved allegations from on-chain researchers claim the team arranged an exclusive order flow deal with block builder Titan that funneled millions of dollars in user bribe payments away from Ethereum validators.
Connected Entities
6 entities · 60 linked investigations- Binance→mentioned with→Ethereum(65%)
- Uniswap→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
- Maestro→mentioned with→Solana(70%)
- Maestro→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
- Maestro→mentioned with→Binance(60%)
- Maestro→mentioned with→Banana Gun(80%)
- Solana→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
- Banana Gun→mentioned with→Solana(70%)
- Banana Gun→mentioned with→Binance(60%)
- Banana Gun→mentioned with→Uniswap(65%)
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Timeline(8 events)
May 2023
Banana Gun bot launches on Telegram, targeting Ethereum token sniping. Team begins encouraging high priority bribe payments to gain transaction ordering advantage.
August 2023
Alleged frontrunning incident during $PENGY token launch. On-chain researchers later allege that wallets connected to the Banana Gun development team sniped ahead of a user who paid $4,000 less in bribes, profiting over $100,000.
11 September 2023
BANANA token launches on Ethereum. Price peaks at approximately $8.70 before crashing 99.7% to $0.02 within three hours due to a smart contract tax routing bug.
12 September 2023
Banana Gun team dumps approximately 950 ETH from treasury wallet to drain the liquidity pool, citing the contract bug. Community alleges potential rug pull; team maintains this was remediation. ChatGPT identifies the bug in seconds after two professional audits missed it.
September 2023
Banana Gun relaunches BANANA token on Uniswap v2 at $6.20 open with $2.1 million in locked liquidity. Airdrop and ETH compensation plan distributed: 740 ETH refunded to 591 wallets in the first phase.
October 2023
Banana Gun allegedly concludes exclusive order flow arrangement with Titan Builder. Researchers later allege this arrangement enabled Titan to grow from under 1% to over 40% of Ethereum block production, while diverting millions in user bribe payments.
19 September 2024
Banana Gun Telegram oracle exploit. Attacker exploits a vulnerability in the bot's Telegram message oracle, manually draining ETH from 11 experienced traders' wallets. Estimated loss: $3 million. Both EVM and Solana bots taken offline.
25 September 2024
Banana Gun confirms full $3 million reimbursement to all 11 exploit victims from the project treasury. No BANANA tokens sold to fund repayments. Security Alliance engaged for third-party audit. 2FA and two-hour transfer delays implemented.
Decision Log
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- slot 464373038 · hash EVEzASUTunZ7MaQpfTpActMe9gCtrusoMAcKWqyKA2V7
- slot 461965083 · hash Hh6bsUXDTR6xkE5xviAEZWfzAjd9zUND3VdaRUg2KAdi
- slot 422638443 · hash 2NEMTreSPFadegCmkmmDhk4rA141gCLQMVzhytpQL1Tu
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 16 of 24 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:29 AM
last updated: 11/2/2026, 5:11:31 AM
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