What is Balchemy?
Balchemy is an AI operations platform for crypto trading workflows on Solana and Base. It has two primary product surfaces:
- Studio — a bot workspace for traditional crypto and meme-token traders, communities, and projects that want Balchemy bots in the web app, Telegram, Discord, or an embedded web widget.
- Hub — an operations surface for 24/7 Web3 agents that need identity, funding, scoped MCP/API access, logs, monitoring, and continuous runtime control.
Explorer is the public discovery surface for verified agents and strategies, but the main product model is Studio + Hub.
Balchemy has no plan, tier, subscription, Stripe billing, or enterprise access model. Every user gets the same standard product access. Revenue comes from the global swap-fee model on executed trades.
Choose the right surface
| If you want to... | Use |
|---|---|
| Create a trading bot for yourself, a team, a Telegram group, a Discord server, or a project website | Studio |
| Configure bot personality, knowledge, strategy, risk, automation, channel policy, widget settings, or bot-level MCP | Studio |
| Run a continuously operating Web3 agent with its own identity, funding, logs, scopes, and MCP/API access | Hub |
| Register an agent, copy an MCP key, fund the agent, rotate access, or inspect tool-call logs | Hub |
| Browse verified public agents or strategies | Explorer |
Studio
Studio is the cockpit for Balchemy bots. A Studio bot can trade, answer questions, use a knowledge base, run automations, and operate across channels.
From Studio you can:
- Create bots for crypto trading and community workflows.
- Configure AI personality, model behavior, guardrails, and response style.
- Add knowledge documents and Q&A so the bot answers with your context.
- Configure trading strategy, risk, automation, DCA, approvals, and history.
- Connect Telegram and Discord through Balchemy-managed adapters.
- Embed a web widget on a project site with domain controls and branding.
- Manage bot-scoped MCP keys, visible tools, agent card, and MCP logs.
Studio is the right place when the operator is a trader, community owner, or project team using a Balchemy bot as part of a trading workflow.
Hub
Hub is for 24/7 Web3 agents. These agents need an operational home: identity, funding, scoped access, logs, monitoring, and key management.
From Hub you can:
- Register or onboard an agent.
- Copy and rotate agent-level MCP/API keys.
- Assign the minimum scope needed:
read,trade, ormanage. - Fund the agent wallet when the agent will trade.
- Monitor tool calls, errors, logs, and setup state.
- Verify identities and manage ownership-sensitive actions.
Hub is the right place when the product is an always-on Web3 agent rather than a Telegram, Discord, or website bot for a trading community.
Explorer
Explorer is a discovery surface. Use it to browse public agents, profiles, capabilities, and strategy metadata. Explorer supports discovery and trust, but it is not the main workspace for operating bots or agents.
How trading works
Every trading path follows the same safety-oriented shape:
- Intent — a user message, bot automation, widget interaction, or MCP/API call arrives.
- Plan — Balchemy resolves the requested action and available tools.
- Policy — scopes, risk settings, approval rules, and safety checks run before execution.
- Execute — the trading engine routes supported swaps through the chain-specific execution path.
- Verify — the result is reconciled against order and position state.
- Notify — the user, bot, channel, widget, or agent log receives the outcome.
Studio bots and Hub agents share the execution core. The difference is the actor and authentication context: Studio is bot/operator/channel driven; Hub is agent identity and MCP/API driven.
Supported chain focus
Balchemy focuses on:
| Chain | Primary use |
|---|---|
| Solana | SPL token and meme-token trading through Solana swap infrastructure. |
| Base / EVM | ERC-20 trading through EVM swap infrastructure. |
Solana and EVM wallets can be linked under one Balchemy account when the wallets are unowned. If a later-connected wallet already belongs to another Balchemy account, Balchemy keeps the identities separate and switches the active session only after a fresh successful login signature.
Fees and partner attribution
Balchemy charges a global swap fee on executed trades. There are no monthly subscription fees or access tiers.
Studio also supports partner and community attribution concepts for channel and widget contexts. For example, a Telegram group or embedded widget can carry attribution and fee-share configuration. That is separate from the referral-code system. Public docs describe these as configured and tracked product systems; payout timing or settlement rails should only be treated as available when the active product flow proves them.
Where to start
I want to create a bot for Telegram, Discord, or a website. Start with Your First Bot, then read Studio Bot Cockpit.
I want to run a 24/7 Web3 agent. Start with Hub Overview, then register an agent from Hub → Agents & Keys.
I want to understand MCP. Read MCP Integration. Use Studio bot MCP for a bot cockpit; use Hub MCP for an always-on agent.
I want to understand fees. Read Trading Fees. The fee model is trade-based, not subscription-based.