Photon is a browser based dashboard for token discovery and trading, developed by the team at Tiny Astro. They currently offer support for the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. The platform provides lightning fast speeds, however it charges much higher fees than competitors.
Speed
Photon's main advantage is it's extremely fast speed. Both the token discovery dashboard (new pairs), and the speed of posting buy and sell transactions are almost unmatched in terms of speed. Photon's "new pairs" page can pick up newly launched tokens sometimes up to 5 seconds faster compared to other alternatives such as Dexscreener.
Photon's buy/sell speeds are also extremely quick. After conducting dozens of tests, we can conclude that Photon is faster than BONKBot, Trojan, and even some private sniper bots.
Cost
Photon's high speeds comes with a hefty cost. There is as 1% fee for every buy and sell transaction. There is also a default Jito validator bribery amount of 0.01 SOL and a customizable priority fee of around 0.005 SOL on average. At current exchange rates, that equates to about $2-3 USD in fees incurred per trade. If you are trading smaller amounts, these high fees will heavily cut into your profits.
Functionality
Proton has all the expected features of a high-end trading platform. You can set slippage, priority fees, enable MEV protection, and customize quick buy button amounts. They also have an extensive variety of filters that can be used when conducting token discovery. You are even able to filter results by disabled mint authority, LP burned, socials, etc.
The only feature really missing from Photon currently is a liquidity pool sniper, however one may be added in the future.
