FAQ

I added a keyword but I’m not getting alerts

A few common causes:

1. You’re freemium and there’s a 60-second delay. Alerts arrive — just check older messages first.
2. No matching mints have deployed yet. Most keywords are quiet for hours at a time. The most active ones (e.g., trump, elon) might fire every few minutes during news cycles; obscure ones might fire daily.
3. Your keyword is too narrow. A regex like /^\$EXACTLY_THIS$/i matches very few mints. Try a substring match instead.
4. The mint matched but failed a filter. Filters (especially fresh-dev and 2-hop launder) silently drop alerts. If you’re sure a mint matched, check argus-scan.com/trader — the waiting-room may show it.

How do I find the bot username?

@pvptools_bot. If Telegram says “user not found,” try opening the link in Telegram itself rather than typing the username in search.

Can I use the bot in a group chat?

Add the bot to a group. Run any command, the bot will respond. Note that every keyword you add gets alerts in the chat where you added it — so adding a keyword in a group means the alert posts in that group. Your DM keywords stay in your DM.

For privacy, you probably want your real keywords in DM and only test/public stuff in a group.

Can I export my keywords?

/list shows them all in a copy-pasteable form. There’s no JSON export endpoint yet.

Does the bot trade for me?

No. PvP Tools alerts — you trade. The action links in every alert (Trojan, Axiom, Padre) are one-tap shortcuts to load the mint in those external trading interfaces.

The internal trader bots that occasionally fire (visible at argus-scan.com/trader) trade Argus’s own SOL, not yours. That’s not a user-facing feature.

What’s the difference between PvP Tools and Argus?

Argus is the broader on-chain analytics and trader-development project. PvP Tools is the user-facing Telegram surface that exposes part of what Argus tracks: keyword alerts, News Pulse, and tap-to-trade tooling.

Same team, same backend. PvP Tools is the consumer brand.

I have a feature request / bug report

Send it to Nickels directly via the bot, or via the website contact. There’s no public issue tracker yet.

Is my data private?

Your keyword list, telegram chat ID, and subscription status are stored. They’re not shared with third parties and aren’t sold. The bot doesn’t log message contents from any chat you have it in; only the slash commands you send it.

The bot’s outbound traffic (Pump.fun API, Helius RPC) doesn’t include any of your personal data — it’s all on-chain or public APIs.