Features, everyday use and speed. After using both, I would pick Dawn.

I've been trying a few copy-trading bots lately, and they all seem to make the same promise: speed. I wanted to see what happened when I actually put two of them on the same wallet.

Trojan was an obvious place to start. It's a big name on Solana, and I wanted to give it a proper go alongside Dawn. The question for me was pretty simple. Which one would I want to keep using after setting up the copies and clicking through the menus?

Features

Trojan has plenty of options. You can follow a wallet and copy buys and sells, buy a fixed amount or use a percentage of the trader’s buy. There are also settings for maximum spend, minimum liquidity and market cap. If you do not want to copy the exits of the wallet, you can use your own stop loss and take profit. There's MEV protection as well.

There is quite a lot to get through.

Dawn has most of the same copytrading controls. Fixed amounts, a percentage of the trader’s buy, portfolio weighted sizing, copy buys and sells, stop loss, take profit and MEV protection. Filter by market cap, liquidity, volume, holders and token age. Paste wallet address or FOMO handle to create a copy.

For me, it came down to the chains I could copy on.

If the trader you follow stays on Solana, you may not care about this. I did. If they buy on Base or BNB Chain, I don't want to stop and fund another bot just to follow them. That's another thing to sort out before the copy can happen.

With Dawn, I had one USDC balance for the supported chains. It also covers trade gas within its stated limits. That was easier for me than keeping track of which wallet had SOL or BNB in it.

Trojan also has limits, DCA, sniping and advanced settings outside of copying. So it isn't a basic bot. I'd choose Dawn on features because it gives me the copy settings along with trading across chains. It's a fairly close comparison if you're only looking at the copy settings themselves.

Features score: Dawn 1, Trojan 0.

User experience

I found Trojan a bit dated when I was clicking around. The annoying part was waiting for a menu response. I knew where I wanted to go; I just had to wait to get there.

I haven't looked through every release. This is how the bot felt when I used it, not a comment on how often it gets updated.

You open it up and there's a lot to work through. Wallets, fees, slippage, buy and sell settings, bribes, MEV options, filters. Useful stuff, but I still had to get through it all before the copy was ready.

If you've used Trojan for a while, you probably know those menus already. You may have everything set up exactly how you like it. I was switching between the two, so the wait stood out more to me.

Dawn was easier for me to get around. I had USDC, pasted a supported token and picked the amount. It worked out the chain. I could get on with the trade without checking the gas balances again.

On Trojan I'm thinking about SOL and priority fees as well as the trade. On Dawn I can spend more of that time choosing how much to buy. That's the difference I noticed, more than any particular button or menu.

The portfolio, wallets, copies, limits, DCA, ladders and normal trades also fit together better for me on Dawn. I found it easier to move between them. Trojan still works, but I'd rather use Dawn day to day.

User experience score: Dawn 1, Trojan 0.

Speed

I put both bots on the same trader's activity and watched which one reacted first. I repeated it six times. Dawn reacted first in all six, and Trojan missed one of the copies.

I should have saved the block numbers. I didn't, so I can't put exact timings next to the results now. What I can tell you is what I watched:

Dawn ahead: 6 attempts.
Trojan ahead: 0 attempts.
Missed trades: Dawn 0, Trojan 1.

I thought Trojan would win at least some of them. It's known for Solana trading speed, after all. But every repeat went to Dawn, then there was the one copy that Trojan didn't pick up.

Six attempts only tell me so much. Priority fees, slippage and the wallet's activity can change what happens, and I don't know why that Trojan copy was missed. I'm not taking this as proof that Dawn will always win. It did win the attempts I watched, though, and that mattered to me.

Speed score: Dawn 1, Trojan 0.

So which would I use?

Final score: Dawn 3, Trojan 0.

I'd keep Dawn. I found it easier to use and had fewer balances to think about. I could follow a wallet across its supported chains too. Then it came out ahead in all six attempts I watched.

Trojan has a lot of control. If you stay on Solana and like how its menus work, I can see why you'd keep it. For me, the slow response when clicking around was irritating, especially with Dawn right there to compare it with.

I don't have a bigger test than those six attempts to show you. But based on them, and on actually setting up and using the two bots, I'd choose Dawn.

Before copying a wallet

Your copy can arrive later than the trader's buy. Thin liquidity and slippage can change what you pay, and a profitable wallet doesn't mean your copy will be profitable too. I'd start small and limit how much each task can spend.

Product references: Trojan guide and Dawn copy trading.