XPocket: TON Trading in Telegram

Buy a token, check a position, send crypto to a friend in chat. Usually that takes three apps and a couple of browser extensions. XPocket puts it all in one mini app inside Telegram and works with the TON network. 💼

The project used to be called PocketFi, and many people know it by that name. Today it presents itself as a trading app. Let us see what it has and where a clear head is needed.

The command menu as a map

The bot's command list shows well what the product is made of. The start command opens the main menu, buy handles token purchases, positions shows current holdings, staking covers staking and checks covers checks.

A separate bigpump command leads to the matching section of the app. 🗺️

Buying and swapping tokens

The app pulls liquidity from various decentralized exchanges and picks a route to keep slippage losses lower. That is the project's own claim, and the result depends on the market at that moment.

Slippage is the gap between the price you expected and the price you actually got. On low-liquidity tokens it can be huge. 📉

Checks: money to a friend right in chat

A check is a link or message that hands a set amount to another person. The project describes checks as non-custodial: funds do not sit with an intermediary.

• Currencies. According to the project, TON and stablecoins are supported.
• Recipient. A Telegram contact you send the check to.
• Caution. Verify the amount and the recipient before sending. A crypto transfer cannot be undone.

Positions and staking

The positions section shows how many tokens you hold now and how they are doing. Staking offers to lock tokens for a period in exchange for a reward.

Terms, periods and yield depend on the specific program. A reward paid in tokens can lose value along with the token. Read the rules before locking. 🔒

Non-custodial wallet: what it means for you

Non-custodial means the keys are with you, not with the service. The plus is that nobody can freeze your funds. The minus is that if you lose access, nobody can return the money.

Write the backup phrase on paper and keep it offline. Do not take screenshots and do not send it to the cloud. 📝

Honest talk about trading risk

Meme tokens and fast trading are a high-risk zone. A price can fall 90 percent in an hour. Some tokens are scams from which you cannot withdraw your money.

• Trade only what you can lose. Keep the rest in safe storage.
• Vet the token. Contract, liquidity, distribution among holders.
• Guard your keys. Your seed phrase is for nobody but you.
• Beware of clones. Fakes of popular bots are many, so check the name.

How to start carefully

First explore the sections of the app without money. Then move a small sum and make a test trade to see what fees and confirmations look like.

Make a rule: no more than a set share of your savings, and no loans to trade. By the catalog's numbers the app has about 35 thousand users. 🧭