IDX
How Solana AMM volume works
An AMM pair stores its own trades. Each filled swap updates that pair’s volume and price. Screeners read those trades.
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A swap is the whole event
When someone buys or sells against a pool, the pool moves along its curve, charges its fee, and writes the trade on-chain. The size of that trade is added to the pair’s volume. A second pool does not receive a copy of the fill.
That is why the pool choice matters more than the label on the bot. The bot is only a way to send those swaps on a schedule you pick.
What a volume bot adds
IDX runs the swaps from a bot wallet you fund in SOL. While it runs, the pair can show more transactions and more volume. It still needs liquidity deep enough to fill, and it still sits next to whatever organic trades are happening.
Read how to choose the pool if you have not picked the market yet. Then open the Solana volume bot and paste the mint for that market.
What a screener does with the fill
After the swap settles, the pair’s volume, trade count, and price are updated from that fill. A screener reads the pair. It does not invent a second trade on a pool that was not touched. That is why two bots on two pools can both be running and still show two different charts.
Give the screener a moment after the dashboard shows a fill. If the pair page stays flat, you are probably looking at a different market than the one the bot traded. Match the mint and the venue, then judge the result from that tape.
Questions
Is bot volume different from a normal swap?
The pool settles it as a swap. What differs is that a bot sends the trades on a schedule instead of a person clicking each one.
Does the bot choose the price?
The pool price moves when swaps hit it, the same way any trade moves an AMM. The bot does not pin a price.
Why can volume look quiet even after I start?
The pool may be too thin to fill, the engine may be a light one, or the bot may be out of SOL. Check the dashboard before you raise spend.