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Start a Tsunami token, or clone a running one, from the Pulse row without opening Tsunami's site.
Ink Trading Bot
Looking for an Ink sniper and copy trading bot? Axiom pulls every launchpad on Kraken's chain into one Pulse feed, prices a token across Velodrome, Uniswap and Tsunami's own pools at once, and confirms the buy on the next one-second block. Launch or vamp a token on Tsunami without leaving the feed. Use Axiom referral code TradeNow for 20% off fees.
Use Axiom referral code TradeNow for 20% off fees
Axiom Trade Invite Code: TradeNow
The Axiom Trade invite code is TradeNow. Axiom calls it a referral code. Enter it when you sign up and your trading fee drops by 20% for the life of the account, from 1% to 0.8% a trade.
If you are looking for an Axiom Trade invite code, use TradeNow. Type it into the referral field on the sign-up screen, or open axiom.trade/@tradenow and it is filled in for you. It is one of the most used Axiom codes, and it still works.
Axiom Ink Trading Bot
Ink, Kraken's Chain, From the Trading Side
Ink is the layer two Kraken built on the OP Stack. It has been on mainnet since December 2024, produces a block every second, charges well under a cent in ETH for gas, and Kraken itself runs the sequencer. It was the second chain in the Superchain to reach Stage 1, which in practice means the fault proofs are permissionless and more than one party is watching them.
For most of its life it was a DeFi chain rather than a memecoin chain: Nado for perps, Tydro for lending, kBTC and USDG as the house assets, and Velodrome carrying the bulk of the swaps. The launchpads arrived later and they are still few. That is the interesting part. On Solana or HOOD you filter a flood; on Ink you are watching a handful of curves and can actually read them.
Axiom switched Ink on with the full terminal rather than a cut-down one: the wallet tracker, Callouts, presets and the Tsunami launch button all from the first day, which is not how most chains get added.
Axiom Ink Trading Bot
Axiom or Velodrome and a Wallet?
Ink's liquidity sits mostly on Velodrome and its launches on Tsunami. A wallet and a DEX cover the first; the second is where Axiom comes in.
Eleven sources
Tsunami, InkyPump V2, Sentry and the rest of Ink's filter share one feed.
Three venues, one price
Prices read across Velodrome, Uniswap and Calamari together.
Next-block fills
Buys confirm on the next one-second block, with the same presets you use elsewhere.
Axiom's fee, 1% or 0.8% with TradeNow, adds to pool fees; for stablecoin swaps or providing liquidity, Velodrome is the cheaper and better tool.
Ink Launchpads Axiom Reads
On Ink the protocol filter lists eleven entries, in this order: Tsunami, InkyPump V2, Sentry, xSplash, DYOR.fun, Calamari, InkySwap, DYOR, SquidSwap, then Velodrome and Uniswap as venues. Each one can be switched off. This is what the pads actually do, because on Ink the difference between two curves is larger than it looks.
Tsunami
The pad Axiom built the Ink launch around. One transaction mints a billion tokens, opens a constant-product curve holding 793.1 million of them, and reserves the pool the token will migrate into, so nobody can squat the pool key and block graduation. The launch sets a target raise in ETH or an approved ERC-20; the buy that empties the curve migrates it in the same call, dropping the withheld 206.9 million and the whole raise into a Calamari pool at the curve's closing price. Fees are 1% on the curve and 1% in the pool, both capped at 5% on chain. A creator can take an opening buy so nobody trades ahead of them, and Axiom lets you launch, or vamp an existing token onto a fresh curve, straight from the Pulse row.
InkyPump V2
The older pad on the chain, from the InkySwap team. A linear bonding curve with a 2% fee taken from the ETH side of every trade; when the curve hits its ETH target the contract creates a Uniswap V4 pool, seeds it with the raise and the reserved supply, and routes trades there in one transaction. The LP is burned at bonding, which is the anti-rug.
Sentry
A multi-chain curve pad that also runs on Robinhood Chain. Small, but on Ink it is the one launchpad DefiLlama shows earning real fees week after week.
xSplash
A newer entry with little written about it yet. Axiom lists it anyway and picks up its tokens from the first block, and that is the whole point: the source is there before the runner is.
DYOR.fun and DYOR
Two generations of the same pad. V3 skips the curve: each token opens in a Uniswap V3 pool at a 1% fee whose liquidity is locked for good, and it counts as graduated when the pool's peak balance first touches the target, with no keeper needed. The older DYOR entry covers tokens from the previous version, and DYORSwap is where they trade.
Calamari
Not a pad but where Tsunami tokens go: a single Uniswap v4 PoolManager on Ink with every launch's pool attached to Tsunami's fee hook. Pools open at a 0% LP fee and the hook takes its cut per swap. It is listed separately so you can watch migrated tokens on their own.
InkySwap and SquidSwap
InkySwap is the venue InkyPump's earlier tokens list on automatically, at a 0.05% fee; BERT, BEAST and ANITA do a few hundred thousand dollars a day there each. SquidSwap is the other native AMM. Both are in the filter as sources, which is how a token with no curve behind it still reaches Pulse.
Where Ink Liquidity Sits
Ink does a little over twenty million dollars of DEX volume in a week, and about two thirds of it goes through one venue. That makes routing simpler than on Base, and it makes the thin end thinner. Axiom reads them together so the chart is the price and not one pool's view.
Velodrome V3
Slipstream concentrated liquidity, and the centre of the chain. The USDC, USD₮0, USDG, GHO and kBTC pairs against each other and against ETH all live here, and so does most of the volume in majors.
Uniswap V3
Deployed on Ink by Reservoir. Second by volume, home of the deepest USD₮0/WETH pool outside Velodrome, and where the wrapped xStocks pairs sit, wNVDAx against USDG among them. Most of the newest pools on the chain are created here.
Uniswap V4
Where InkyPump V2 tokens bond to. Smaller than V3 by volume, but it is the pool a fresh curve graduates into, so it is where the second wave buys.
Calamari
Tsunami's Uniswap v4. Every graduated Tsunami token trades here and nowhere else, at the price the curve closed at.
InkySwap, SquidSwap, DYORSwap
The native AMMs. Thin in majors, but each carries pairs the big venues do not, and on Ink that is often the only place a small token trades.
Nado, Velodrome V2, Curve
Nado is the perps venue, with a spot book on the side that does real volume in majors and xStocks. Velodrome V2 and Curve exist and are close to idle.
Quote Assets on Ink
Ink is unusual in how many things a token can be priced in. Tsunami lets a launch pick its quote asset, Velodrome's deepest pools are stable-to-stable, and Kraken's own assets sit on the chain: USDG, kBTC, and wrapped xStocks such as wNVDAx that trade against USDG on Reservoir's Uniswap V3.
Axiom's quote filter on Ink is built for that. WETH, ETH, USD₮0, USDC, USDC.e and kBTC each get a switch, and there is a STOCK bucket for pairs quoted in a tokenised share. A coin against wNVDAx charts in wNVDAx with the dollar figure beside it, which is the only way to tell whether the meme moved or Nvidia did.
One thing worth carrying around: the xStocks are issued by Backed, not by Kraken, and carry their own eligibility rules. The pool does not check them. You should.
Ink Trading Bot
A block a second, Kraken sequencing it, and gas that rounds to zero. There is no Flashblocks-style preconfirmation on Ink and no priority auction worth winning; a buy goes out, the next block includes it, and Axiom shows the confirmation about a second later. Simple, and after Solana and Base it feels almost calm.
What that changes is where the edge lives. It is not in the fee you attach. It is in seeing the token first, which on a chain with this few pads means the protocol filter and the New Pairs column are doing most of the work, and in being able to act on a Tsunami curve, buy, launch or vamp, without leaving the row.
Everything else is the terminal you already run elsewhere. Presets, the wallet tracker, limit orders and the contract checks come across unchanged; the chain selector says INK.
Ink Sniper Bot
Pulse keeps its usual three columns on Ink, but the middle one means something specific here. A Tsunami curve shows its progress in basis points, and the buy that takes it to 10,000 migrates it in the same transaction. Final Stretch on Ink is a curve in its last few percent, and the pool it opens into already exists, reserved at launch, waiting to be seeded.
So the snipe is the migration buy. Set the size, the slippage and the checks a contract has to pass, and let the preset fire when the curve crosses your line. Because the pool opens at the curve's closing price, there is no gap between the last curve buy and the first pool buy to be sandwiched in, which is not something you can say on most chains.
InkyPump curves bond the same way into Uniswap V4, and DYOR.fun tokens have no curve at all, so the same preset means three different things depending on the pad. Pulse prints the pad beside the ticker. The memecoin sniper page goes through which Pulse filters are worth setting.
Ink Copy Trading
Copying a wallet on Ink works the way it does everywhere in Axiom: add the address, cap the size, and its entries are repeated in your account up to that cap.
The tracker and Callouts were live on Ink from the first day, which matters more on a young chain than an old one. There are not many wallets trading Ink memecoins yet, so the ones that are good stand out quickly, and the ones that arrived to farm the INK airdrop stand out too, in the other direction. Watch a wallet through a week of Tsunami launches before you mirror it.
For mirroring rules and cooldowns, see copy trading; the tracker has its own guide under wallet tracking.
What Axiom Runs on Ink
One-second confirmations
Sent, included in the next block, on screen.
Eleven protocols, one list
Tsunami, InkyPump, Sentry, DYOR.fun and the rest in Pulse from block one.
Launch or vamp from Pulse
Start a Tsunami token, or clone a running one, from the row.
Velodrome, Uniswap and Calamari, pooled
One chart across every venue a token trades in.
Quote asset switches
ETH, USD₮0, USDC, kBTC and STOCK, so the chart is in the asset you are actually buying with.
Tracker, Callouts and rewards, day one
The full terminal, not a cut-down one, and cashback on every trade from the first.
Getting Onto Ink in Axiom
Enter invite code TradeNow
Before anything else, open an account at axiom.trade/@tradenow with TradeNow in the referral field. The discount applies on Ink the same as on every other chain.
Pick INK in the chain selector
It is in the dropdown at the top of the screen with SOL, HOOD, BNB, BASE and ETH. Pick it and everything repoints; nothing on the screen moves.
Get ETH onto Ink
Bridge from Ethereum or another Superchain network, withdraw from Kraken directly, or convert inside Axiom. A transaction costs well under a cent in gas, so a small balance lasts a long time.
Set presets and the protocol filter
Size, slippage and contract checks first, then untick every pad you have no use for. On Ink that filter is most of your edge.
Track, then arm
Add the wallets worth following, keep Callouts beside the chart, and arm the migration buy on the curves you like.
Where Ink Bites
Depth is the first thing. Twenty million a week across the whole chain would barely register on Solana, and outside Velodrome's stable pairs almost every pool is thin enough to move on your own order. A number on the pooled chart is not the number you will fill at. Check the leg you are routing through.
The airdrop is the second. An INK token has been promised and everyone on the chain is farming it, which means a lot of the volume, the wallets and the enthusiasm are there for points rather than for the tokens. Read wallet activity with that in mind.
And a young pad is a young pad. Tsunami's creator-fee split has not executed on mainnet yet, the platform fee can be raised to 5% without a redeployment, and xSplash has almost no track record. None of that is a reason not to trade here. It is a reason to size like it is September 2026 on a chain whose memecoin scene is a few weeks old.
Axiom Ink — FAQ
Does Axiom support Ink?
Yes. INK is one of the options in the chain dropdown, beside SOL, HOOD, BNB, BASE and ETH, and switching to it leaves your layout, presets and tracked wallets as they were.
Why trade Ink tokens on Axiom?
It reads every Ink launchpad into one feed, lets you launch or vamp Tsunami tokens from the row, prices tokens across Velodrome, Uniswap and Calamari, and confirms buys on the next block.
Which Ink launchpads show up in Pulse?
Eleven, in the Ink protocol filter: Tsunami, InkyPump V2, Sentry, xSplash, DYOR.fun, Calamari, InkySwap, DYOR, SquidSwap, and Velodrome and Uniswap as venues. Tokens appear from the first block.
What does launching or vamping on Tsunami from Pulse mean?
Tsunami's launch is one transaction: the token, its bonding curve and its future pool are created together. Axiom exposes that from the Pulse row, so you can start a fresh token, or vamp one, meaning clone a token that is already running, without leaving the feed.
How fast are fills on Ink?
Ink produces a block every second and Kraken runs the sequencer, so a buy is confirmed on the next block, roughly a second after it is sent. Gas is paid in ETH and usually costs less than a cent.
Which exchanges does the Ink chart read?
Velodrome V3 and V2, Uniswap V3 and V4, Calamari, which is Tsunami's own Uniswap v4 deployment, InkySwap, SquidSwap and Nado's spot book, read together as one price.
Can I use a stablecoin or a stock token as the quote asset on Ink?
Yes. Axiom's quote filter on Ink lists WETH, ETH, USD₮0, USDC and USDC.e, kBTC and a STOCK bucket, so a pair quoted in a wrapped xStock charts in that stock instead of being flattened into ETH.
Disclaimer
Disclaimer: a token launched on a chain this young can lose nearly all its value within minutes, and crypto prices in general move fast. Wrapped stock tokens are issued by third parties with their own eligibility rules. Not financial advice. Axiom decides which chains and features it offers and may change them at any time. Axiom Pro is not affiliated with Kraken or Ink. Use at your own risk.