What Telegram permissions does Hodler need?
Hodler needs group admin access for moderation and group tools. Deleting messages and restricting members enable moderation; pin-message permission enables pinned reports. Only grant the rights needed for the features you choose to use.
What will I pay for wallet tracking?
There is no subscription for the community tools. Holder verification still requires its unique, non-refundable SOL transfer. Wallet tracking has a standard one-time rate of 0.03 SOL per wallet, with no per-alert charge; a promo or multi-wallet bundle may change the total, which the bot quotes in chat before payment. Research packages and sponsored placements are separate.
Does the bot need my API keys or a paid indexer?
No. Hodler talks to Solana RPC itself, and community features work with zero configuration beyond adding the bot. Wallet tracking is charged per wallet; sponsored promos are a separate, optional placement service.
How does verification actually work?
You send a unique, non-refundable SOL transfer to the bot wallet. The amount is recorded against your Telegram ID. Every 24 hours Hodler re-checks your balance on-chain; if it reaches zero your role and rank are removed automatically.
Will it mistake real market talk for FUD?
The context-aware scanner reads the sentence rather than pattern-matching keywords and keeps an allowlist for legitimate market discussion. Verified holders are exempt from ordinary FUD moderation; separate scam-detection rules still apply to everyone.
Does scam detection depend on the FUD mode?
No. Separate high-confidence checks look for credential-theft requests, wallet-drainer claim links, and targeted project impersonation. Detected posts are deleted in every mode, including posts from verified holders; offending non-admin senders are removed from the group. Ordinary FUD moderation still follows the group's selected mode.
What can a group admin see?
Everything the group shares: the feed board, the 7-day leaderboard, and per-wallet activity. Members must consent before their wallet streams to a group, and you can revoke sharing per wallet at any time.
Can Hodler alert us when someone buys our token?
Yes. Bind your token with /add and enable buy alerts during setup. Hodler announces qualifying buys of that token to the group, whoever made them; set minimum and optional maximum buy sizes, plus a separate whale-buy threshold. Adjust them later with /buysettings. These are token buy alerts, not members’ personal wallet alerts.
How do sponsored promo placements and shares work?
Advertisers submit /sponsor privately, choose when the promo runs (once, scheduled, daily, or weekly), and choose group and private-DM quantities per run. Repeated promos may reuse the same creative or use different copy for each run; the full approved schedule is paid upfront after review. Times are UTC. Up to 1,000 group placements can be selected at once. Group rates receive 10% off at 10–49 placements per delivery and 20% off at 50+; private DMs remain at base rate. Hodler assigns eligible destinations automatically, favoring those with fewer deliveries in the past 30 days. Group creators are offered terms privately; while they are pending, ads may continue and the group share is held. Declining stops future group placements. Group shares use a configurable default of 50%; private-DM users earn 25% per successfully delivered ad (the bot retains 75%) and can stop ads at any time. Failed deliveries require operator review; refunds or credits are not automatic.
Are sponsor payouts automatic, and can deleted group ads be detected?
No. Recipients set a payout wallet and request eligible earnings with /sponsorclaim; the operator sends payouts manually, and the bot never holds a signing key. Group shares require manual visibility approval because Telegram does not notify bots when a message is deleted. Delivery failures may need operator review.
Is my wallet address exposed to the group?
Only if you choose to. Privacy mode replaces the address, the Solscan link and the traded amounts with placeholders in group cards. Your own DM always keeps the full record.
How is /topwallets different from “top holders”?
It ranks by observed net SOL flow. Hodler reads each candidate pool's recent transactions and sums every participant's net position — what they actually bought minus what they sold — so the board surfaces traders, not just wallets that never sold.
What happens to my data?
It stays in the bot's own database. Tracking is opt-in per wallet, stop tracking removes it, and a one-tap Close button cleans up any command you did not mean to run.