Setup · ~5 minutes on a fresh VPS

From clone to
first trade.

A high-level look at how Trench.Tools runs — the pieces, the setup flow, what it costs, and how fast it executes. Detailed setup steps live in the docs.

Walkthrough

See the stack in action.

A three-minute, unedited walkthrough of trades, deploys and snipes running through a self-hosted Trench.Tools stack.

The pieces

What you're running, and where it lives.

Three components, all running locally on your machine or VPS. Your wallets, keys and execution stay on the host you control.

01 / Engine

Execution engine

Local Rust trading host. Owns your wallets, presets, routes and the trade build/sign/send path.

02 / LaunchDeck

LaunchDeck

Launchpad workflows: deploy, vamp, snipe, dev-buy, dev-sell and follow flows for Pump, Bonk and Bagsapp.

03 / Extension

Browser extension

Injects Trench.Tools into the terminals you already use, and routes every trade through your local engine.

Setup at a glance

Three steps. Roughly five minutes.

Most users on a fresh VPS get the stack live in about five minutes. The full setup walkthrough — commands, environment variables, SSH tunnels — lives in the docs.

01
Run the engine

Pick a host: a local PC or a cheap VPS near your provider endpoints. One command starts the execution engine and LaunchDeck on loopback ports.
02
Pair the extension

Load the extension folder in Chrome or Edge in developer mode, then paste the auth token your engine writes out on first start.
03
Trade and deploy

Quick-buy controls and panels appear inside supported terminals. LaunchDeck runs alongside, embedded in the extension or as a standalone UI.

Full setup walkthrough VPS setup guide

Infrastructure cost

Around $80/month, fixed.

You replace a percentage of every trade with a flat monthly bill. At a 1% platform fee, $80/month of infra breaks even at just $8k of monthly trading volume — well under an hour of active trading for most users.

Helius RPC: Developer tier — ~$50/month
VPS: Latency-optimal region — ~$30/month
Total: ~$80/month, fixed
Break-even: $8k/month in trading volume (vs. a 1% platform fee)

Execution speed

~40ms avg end-to-end.

Click to sender accept, on a Helius Developer tier RPC plus integrated private relay providers. Real numbers depend on region, RPC tier and route — benchmark your own setup.

Send providers: Helius Sender · Hello Moon · Jito · Standard RPC
Routing: EU (FRA, AMS) · US (EWR, SLC) · Asia (SG, TYO)
Read RPC: Helius Gatekeeper HTTP, Shyft for warm/cache
Verification: Routes verified on-chain before every trade

Stay in control

Local-first by default.

Wallets, keys and execution stay on your machine or VPS. Browser-facing routes are auth-gated, and remote access uses an SSH tunnel — no raw ports exposed to the public internet.

Full security model and threat boundary are documented in SECURITY.md. Read it before running with real wallets.

Get started

Clone the repo. Own your execution.

Read the README Read the docs View on GitHub

From clone to first trade.