Padre doesn't market itself loudly, but traders who try it tend to stay. It's a non-custodial memecoin terminal — not a Telegram bot, not a browser extension — that gives you real order types and the same interface across Solana, Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain. We covered why in our full Padre review — this guide is the practical companion.
This guide walks through setup, the Trenches launch feed, order types, copy trading, and the multi-chain workflow that's Padre's actual edge.
What Is Padre?
Padre is a non-custodial trading terminal delivered as a progressive web app (PWA). You connect or import a wallet, the keys stay with you, and Padre gives you a unified order interface across four chains.
The core feature set:
- Chains: Solana, Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain — one UI, one wallet flow
- Order types: Market, limit, stop-loss, take-profit, and trailing stop-loss on every chain
- Trenches: a real-time bonding-curve tracker for Pump.fun launches (and Four.Meme on BSC) with dev signals and wallet tagging
- Copy trading with per-wallet caps and filters
- MEV protection, configurable per trade
- Fee: 0.9% per swap — no subscription, no premium tier
Setup: No Extension Required
This is the part that surprises people coming from other terminals:
- Open Padre in any browser — desktop or phone
- Connect via WalletConnect, or import a wallet
- That's it. No browser extension, no separate "bot wallet" to fund, no custody handoff
Because it's a PWA, you can install it to your phone's home screen and get full desktop parity on mobile — the only major terminal where the phone experience isn't a stripped-down compromise. If you run Phantom or Backpack on mobile, you can trade with the same wallet on both screens.
The custody model matters: Padre doesn't pool funds, doesn't hold private keys, and doesn't ask you to deposit to a hot wallet. If Padre disappeared tomorrow, your wallet is still your wallet.
Trenches: The Launch Feed
Trenches is Padre's Pump.fun tracker and the feature most likely to make you switch. It's a real-time view of new bonding-curve tokens with:
- Dev-wallet signals — what the deployer is doing, as it happens
- Custom wallet tagging — tag wallets you've identified and follow their moves across launches
- Customizable column filters — tune the feed to your entry criteria instead of scrolling raw noise
The tagging ergonomics are where Padre punches above Axiom's Pulse and Photon's Memescope — it looks similar until you use them side by side, and then the filtering discipline shows.
The workflow that compounds: use our Deployer Hunter to identify which dev wallets have a real track record, tag them in Trenches, and let the feed surface their next launch the moment it hits the curve.
Order Types: The Real Differentiator
Most Solana terminals give you market and limit orders. Padre gives you market, limit, stop-loss, take-profit, and trailing stop-loss — on every chain it supports.
The trailing stop is the one to learn. On a memecoin runner, a fixed take-profit caps your upside and a fixed stop gets wicked out. A trailing stop ratchets up with price and only triggers on the pullback — it's the difference between riding a 10x and round-tripping it. Set it on every position you don't plan to babysit.
Copy Trading
Pick the wallets you want to mirror, set per-wallet caps and filters, and Padre replicates their trades. The caps are the part to take seriously: set a per-wallet allocation before you copy anyone, so one compromised or tilted wallet can't drain your stack.
Wallet selection is the actual edge — copy execution is commoditized. Our KOL Tracker ranks 1,000+ Solana wallets by real PnL; pick from verified track records, not Twitter claims. For the full execution-platform field, see the copy trading comparison.
Multi-Chain Without the Tax
If you only ever trade Solana, this section doesn't matter. But when volume rotates — to Base one week, BNB the next — most traders end up with a different bot per chain, each with its own custodial wallet and its own fee meter.
Padre's pitch is one wallet, one interface, four chains. Same order types everywhere, including the trailing stops. Switch chains in the UI and keep your workflow. For traders who actually follow volume across ecosystems, this is the feature that pays for the 0.9% fee.
Fees
0.9% per swap, flat. No subscription, no token-gating, no tiers to climb. That's cheaper than the 1% standard (Photon, BullX, GMGN) and slightly above Axiom's high-volume tiers (0.95% down to 0.75%). Through the Padre referral link you get a small fee discount on entry.
If you're fee-sensitive at volume, run your numbers through the bot fee calculator — and read our Padre vs Axiom breakdown for the head-to-head.
Getting Started: Your First Session
- Open Padre, connect or import a dedicated trading wallet
- Install the PWA to your phone — test that mobile parity claim yourself
- Open Trenches and set up your column filters before trading anything
- Make one small buy and practice setting a trailing stop on it
- Tag 2-3 deployer wallets from Deployer Hunter and watch how Trenches surfaces them
Final Thoughts
Padre wins on workflow, not noise: non-custodial without the extension dance, real order types on four chains, the tightest launch-feed tagging in the category, and genuine mobile parity. Its trade-off is fame — Axiom and Photon own the Twitter conversation, so Padre stays the terminal traders find late and wish they'd found early.
The terminal executes; the data decides. Pair Padre's Trenches with our Deployer Hunter and KOL Tracker, and the feed you're filtering is one you can actually trust. For the full field — Photon, BullX, GMGN, MevX, Light Terminal — see the trading terminal comparison.
