FAQ

How do I use Lash?

Throughout the docs a step-by-step guide on everything you need to know is provided. This is inclusive of the most basic, and the most advanced features Lash has to offer.

What is the Minimum Trade Amount?

There is no minimum trade amount. However, to avoid fees becoming an increasingly large percentage of your trade size, we recommend 0.05 SOL minimum.

What is a Buy & Sell Fee?

This is a transaction fee taken by the bot for processing buy and sell orders, which may vary based on network conditions and token volatility. See Buy & Sell fees in more detail in Fees.

What is a Buy & Sell Tip?

An optional additional fee that users can include in their transactions to incentivize validators or prioritize their transaction processing.

Solana transactions typically have low base fees, but when network congestion is high, transactions may take longer to confirm. By adding a transaction tip, users can increase the likelihood that their transaction gets processed faster, as validators tend to prioritize transactions with higher fees.

Tips are especially useful for time-sensitive trades or any scenario where speed is crucial.

What is Slippage?

Slippage refers to the difference between the expected price of a trade and the actual executed price, often caused by market volatility or low liquidity.

What is Market Cap?

Market cap (market capitalization) is the total value of a token’s circulating supply, calculated as price per token × total supply.

Often referred to as the total value a token (or company in TradFi) is worth entirely.

What is Front-Running Protection or ANTI-MEV?

Anti-front-running measures to prevent malicious actors from manipulating trade execution for their advantage.

What if a trade fails?

You are notified that the transaction could not be completed. Unfortunately, you will lose the transaction fee as the attempt was still made and paid to the Solana Validators. Consider increasing fees and/or slippage.

Is my wallets safe when using Lash?

Yes. All wallets & keys are aes256 encrypted. We have no way to recover a wallet if you lose access and did not save your private key on your local device.

What does reclaiming SOL mean? Is this free SOL?!

No, it is not 'free' SOL, although it can feel that way if you have a lot of unclosed token accounts.

When you close a token account on Solana, you can reclaim the SOL that was used to rent-exempt the account. Since every token account requires a small amount of SOL to remain active, closing it frees up that SOL and returns it to your wallet. This helps optimize your balance by recovering previously locked-up SOL.