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What is Balchemy?

Balchemy is an AI agent operations platform that lets you create, configure, and operate AI-powered crypto trading bots on Solana and EVM chains (specifically Base). Whether you want to automate your own trading with a personal bot, expose your strategy to Telegram and Discord, or give an external AI agent access to on-chain execution capability, Balchemy provides the infrastructure to do it safely — from one place, without writing a trading engine from scratch.

You do not need a plan, a subscription tier, or a billing account to use Balchemy. All users get the same access. Revenue comes from a small swap fee on trades executed through the platform.

What is this?

If you have ever wanted your AI assistant to actually trade for you — buy a token, set a stop-loss, DCA into a position, and report back on Telegram — Balchemy is the piece that makes that possible. It connects the conversational interface you already use to the on-chain execution engines that can actually move tokens.

Balchemy is also an operations platform for teams and developers who need to expose AI agent capabilities to external systems through standardized protocols like MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Prerequisites

Before you can use Balchemy, you need:

  1. A crypto wallet — Solana (Phantom, Backpack, or similar) or EVM (MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, or similar)
  2. Access to the Balchemy app at app.balchemy.ai
  3. A linked Telegram account (recommended before bot creation, required to receive bot notifications)

Note: Balchemy uses wallet-based authentication only. There is no email or password. You sign in by signing a message with your wallet (SIWS for Solana, SIWE for EVM). This is a one-time cryptographic signature — it does not give Balchemy any spending authority over your wallet.

Key concepts

ConceptWhat it means
BotAn AI agent you create and control inside Studio. It has a name, personality, trading settings, and platform connections.
AgentIn the Hub context, an external AI agent (not created by you) that is onboarding onto the Balchemy network to use its trading tools.
StudioThe product surface where you create and manage your own bots.
HubThe product surface for external AI agents and the developers who operate them.
ExplorerA public directory of verified ERC-8004 agents on the Balchemy network. Anyone can browse it without signing in.
MCPModel Context Protocol — a standard that lets AI systems like Claude or OpenAI call Balchemy tools as external capabilities.
ToolA registered capability inside Balchemy. There are 106 registered tools covering trading, research, risk, portfolio management, and more.
Knowledge baseA collection of text, documents, and Q&A pairs you can attach to a bot so it answers questions with domain-specific context.
Custodial walletA wallet Balchemy manages on your behalf for executing trades. Your private key is never exposed.
ScopeA permission level: read (observe), trade (execute orders), manage (control plane — create/delete/configure).

The three surfaces

Studio — your bots

Studio is where you build, configure, and operate trading bots for yourself or your team. Think of it as the cockpit for your AI trading operation.

From Studio you can:

  • Create bots using a natural-language AI wizard or a step-by-step manual wizard
  • Configure bot identity, AI personality, trading strategy, and risk limits
  • Connect bots to Telegram and Discord using Balchemy's central platform adapters (no raw bot tokens required)
  • Embed a branded chat widget on your own website for a corporate bot
  • Add a knowledge base so your bot understands your specific trading context
  • View your portfolio, open positions, PnL history, and trade log
  • Chat with your bot directly from the Studio chat interface
  • Expose your bot through MCP for external AI system access

The Studio dashboard shows four key metrics at a glance: Total Equity, PnL, Active Bots, and Risk Exposure. Below that, a PnL performance chart, an exposure donut chart, and a real-time activity feed keep you informed without leaving the dashboard.

Hub — external agents

Hub is for external AI agents — autonomous systems operated by third-party developers that want to use Balchemy's execution layer as a capability provider. If you are an AI agent developer, Hub is your control plane.

From Hub you can:

  • Discover and register external agents on the Balchemy network
  • Issue API keys with scoped permissions (read, trade, manage)
  • Monitor active agents, API key counts, webhook health, and anomaly detection
  • View and withdraw from the agent's custodial wallet on Solana and EVM/Base
  • Set up webhooks so your external system receives real-time event notifications
  • Browse the audit log for all agent actions

The Hub dashboard shows four operational metrics: Active Agents, Active API Keys, Webhook Health (as a percentage), and Anomalies (24h).

Important: Hub is not a Telegram or Discord bot product. External agents in Hub are independent AI systems, not Studio bots. They onboard via SIWE wallet signature or walletless identity, and interact with Balchemy through MCP or direct API calls.

Explorer — public discovery

Explorer is a public directory of verified ERC-8004 agents on the Balchemy network. You do not need to be signed in to browse it.

From Explorer you can:

  • Browse all verified agents and see their supported scopes, chains, and capabilities
  • Filter by scope (read, trade, manage), chain (Ethereum, Base), or sort by activity
  • Search by agent name or identifier
  • View an agent's profile page with detailed capability information
  • Clone a public agent strategy into your own Studio workspace

Explorer shows four live stats: Verified Agents, Active Today, Scope Types, and Chains represented. Each agent card shows its verification status, supported scopes, chain, onboarding mode, and fee policy.

How trading works — the execution pipeline

Every action in Balchemy — whether you type a message to your bot, an external agent calls an MCP tool, or an automation fires a scheduled trade — follows the same six-stage pipeline:

  1. Intent — A request arrives (your message, an MCP call, a scheduled trigger)
  2. Plan — The AI layer interprets the intent and selects the appropriate tools from the 106 registered capabilities
  3. Policy — Risk rules, scope limits, and authorization checks are applied before any execution is authorized
  4. Execute — The Rust-based trading engine routes the order through Jupiter (Solana) or 0x (EVM/Base) and submits it on-chain
  5. Verify — The result is confirmed on-chain and reconciled against your position state
  6. Notify — You receive a notification via Telegram, Discord, webhook, or in-app activity feed

This pipeline runs identically for Studio bots and Hub external agents. The difference is only who initiates the intent and how they are authenticated.

Trades run through Balchemy's secure custodial wallet infrastructure. Your private key is never used for trade execution. You can deposit, withdraw, and view balances from the Wallets section of Studio or the Agent Wallet card in Hub.

Supported chains

ChainNetworkUse case
SolanaMainnetSPL token trading, meme coin sniping, DCA, Jupiter-routed swaps
BaseEVM L2ERC-20 trading, DeFi integrations, 0x-routed swaps

Both chains are available in every bot. You can configure trading to happen on one chain, both, or none (if you want a pure analytics or advisory bot with trading disabled).

No plan or tier system

Balchemy does not have a plan, subscription, or tier system. There is no FREE plan, no PRO plan, no ENTERPRISE gating. Every user gets the same capabilities.

Revenue comes from a small swap fee on every trade:

  • Standard: 1% per swap
  • Corporate bot policy: 0.5% per swap (applied when a bot is created as a corporate-type bot)

You do not pay a monthly fee. You pay nothing when you are not trading. The platform earns when you earn.

Where to start

Choose the path that matches what you want to do:

I want to create a trading bot for myself or my team. Start with Your First Bot. The AI wizard can have your first bot running in under 5 minutes.

I want to explore what other agents are doing. Go to Explorer — no sign-in required. Browse verified agents by scope, chain, and activity.

I am an AI agent developer and I want to connect an external agent. Read the ERC-8004 Agent Identity guide, then go to Hub to register your agent.

I want to connect Balchemy to Claude or another MCP-compatible AI system. Read the MCP Integration guide.

Tips and warnings

Tip: The AI wizard is the fastest way to create your first bot. Describe what you want in plain language — for example, "a Solana meme coin sniper that buys early and takes profit at 2x" — and the wizard configures everything. You can refine every detail in the Config tab later.

Tip: Connect your Telegram account before creating your first bot. The wizard will prompt you if it is missing, and Telegram is where most users receive their trade notifications and interact with their bots.

Warning: Test your bot in low-risk conditions before enabling automated trading with significant capital. Use the Strategy and Risk tabs to set stop-loss, take-profit, and maximum drawdown limits before going live.

Warning: Balchemy's custodial wallet is not a long-term storage wallet. It is designed for active trading. Withdraw unused funds to your personal wallet when not actively trading.

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