Hot Bot

Launched on the last day. Won the hackathon.

A private trading team of specialist bots that research, snipe, trade and launch together for Solana memecoin traders.

The Story

Hot Bot launched $HOTBOT on ClawPump five hours before the AnsemHack Clawrena's tokenize deadline and sat near a $3.4K market cap for five and a half hours. Thirty-six minutes after the deadline passed it broke out, graduated from the pump.fun curve eleven minutes later, and went on to touch $9.19M. On 16 October it was named one of the hackathon's two top winners: $20,000 in cash and 30% of the $ANSEM prize pool.

Hot Bot is a private trading team for Solana memecoin traders. Four specialist bots, a ResearchBot, a SniperBot, a TraderBot and a LaunchBot, work together under a strategy the user sets, with Hot Bot coordinating them. Its litepaper, dated 30 September 2026, opened with 100 private invites. The founders, @elijahintek and @0xWhoismax, built it on ClawPump.

The Clawrena gave teams until midnight EST on 1 October, 05:00 UTC on 2 October, to register and get a token live. Hot Bot created $HOTBOT at 23:59:50 UTC on 1 October, five hours before the cutoff, registered eight minutes later, and posted its entry at 02:09 UTC.

Then almost nothing happened. For five and a half hours the bonding curve saw 28 successful transactions and about $1,300 of volume, and the market cap stayed between $3,336 and $4,068, close to where every pump.fun token starts.

At 05:36 UTC, 36 minutes after the deadline, it moved. $HOTBOT crossed a $10K market cap at 05:37 and $40K at 05:42, and graduated from the curve to PumpSwap at 05:47, five hours and 47 minutes after launch. Within the 06:00 hour it traded as high as $818K, and it crossed $1M for the first time that evening.

With only the last week of the competition's fee window left, $HOTBOT still generated 743 SOL of creator fees between 2 and 8 October, the second-highest of any entry, behind SelfMade by SP3ND, which had been trading since August. It set its all-time high of $9.19M on 10 October, and MCG hosted the founders on 15 October.

ClawPump announced the winners on 16 October, a week later than planned. Hot Bot, listed for agentic swarm trading, took $20,000 in cash and 30% of the 0.1% of $ANSEM supply set aside for the hackathon, the same award as SelfMade by SP3ND. By 20 October $HOTBOT had traded $26M since launch and collected 1,124 SOL of creator fees.

Timeline

1. 1 Oct 2026 · 23:59 UTC$HOTBOT is created on ClawPump, five hours before the tokenize deadline. pool
2. 2 Oct · 02:09 UTCHot Bot posts its AnsemHack entry. post
3. 2 Oct · 05:00 UTCThe tokenize deadline passes with the market cap near $3.9K.
4. 2 Oct · 05:36 UTCThe breakout starts: $10K at 05:37, $40K at 05:42.
5. 2 Oct · 05:47 UTCGraduates from the pump.fun curve to PumpSwap at about $49K. pool
6. 2 Oct · 21:00 UTCTrades above a $1M market cap for the first time.
7. 10 Oct · 11:49 UTCAll-time high: $9.19M. pump.fun
8. 15 OctThe founders go on MCG. post
9. 16 Oct · 17:14 UTCNamed an AnsemHack Clawrena winner: $20,000 and 30% of the $ANSEM pool. announcement

Why It Matters

Hot Bot is the case for building first and tokenizing last. The token was the final step of a product that already existed, and a launch that sat flat for its first five hours is now the largest token of the competition by market cap.