TLDR:
🍌 $36K in bot fees, down 27% four straight weeks of decline, full hibernation mode.
🟣 SOL pulled $15.8K, only down 16%, still the steadiest chain in the room.
🔷 ETH brought in $11K, down 23% as activity kept cooling.
🔵 BASE held $4.3K, basically flat on the week (counts as a win right now).
🛠️ Devs shipped UI polish, PnL fixes, navigation cleanup, and wallet improvements.
⚙️ Big builds rolling: new BananaPro data source, Trenches V3, Wallet V2, and more...
Bot Fees & Chain Breakdown
This past week (17th November to 23rd November), Banana Gun pulled in $36,214 in total fees. After last week's $49,789, we're down another 27%. Four weeks of decline and counting. The DeFi winter is real, and we're right in the middle of it.
Chain Breakdown & Week-over-Week:
🟣 SOL: $15,887 (~44%) | Previous Week: $18,815 Solana dropped 16% but somehow still won the week. When everything's bleeding, being down "only" 16% is basically a victory. SOL is holding its ground better than anyone else right now.
🔷 ETH: $11,039 (~30%) | Previous Week: $14,369 Ethereum slid 23%. The smart money is still moving, just at a slow pace. When you see ETH this quiet, you know the whole market is taking a nap.
🟡 BSC: $4,385 (~12%) | Previous Week: $11,637 BSC lost 62% this week. The chain that was pulling $16k just three weeks ago is now barely clearing $4k.
🔵 BASE: $4,365 (~12%) | Previous Week: $4,777 BASE dipped another 9%, but honestly? Flat is the new up in this market. After two brutal weeks, stability feels like a win. The L2 is hanging in there.
🌐 Others: $538 (~1%) Minor contributions from the fringes. Every dollar counts when the jungle is this quiet.
Total fees: $36,214 (vs. $49,789 last week)
Let's call it what it is: we are deep in the slowdown now. Four consecutive weeks of decline, and we're sitting at roughly a quarter of where we were in early November. The market is very cold, traders are cautious, and volume is scarce across the entire DeFi landscape.
But here's the reality: this is crypto. Quiet periods don't last forever. The traders taking breaks now will definitely be back when volatility returns.
And we'll be here, ready, with a platform that's sharper than ever. 🍌
As always, 40% goes straight back to holders.
"Banana Gun: still loaded, still aimed, waiting for the next move." 🍌
Development Updates
Another week of sweeping the floors, tightening the bolts, and making Banana Gun feel a little more satisfying to use.
🍌 Pro, Trenches, Wallet: the Big Three
Work continues on the new data source for BananaPro, Trenches V3 upgrades, and the full Wallet V2 refactor. Tracking, labels, popovers, performance… everything is getting a tune-up. The Top Bar and Navigation are also mid-overhaul, with layout persistence so your setup finally stays the way you left it.
🍌 UI Polish Everywhere
Numeric inputs in Buy, Sell, and Snipe got smoother again. Labels, popovers, error formatting, token input logic all received quiet glow-ups. Even the z-index chaos that made popups fight each other has been calmed down. The top navigation is cleaner, the Referral section is new, and one-click layout creation is now a thing. Bonus: logo transparency and fonts are more consistent because aesthetics matter.
🍌 PNL, Help Center, Wallet Fixes
PnL images finally render properly and the backend logic is sturdier. “Report a bug” actually reports bugs again, Intercom doesn’t wobble anymore, and the Wallet Tracker got better translations, cleaner popovers, fixed tracking toggles, and tidier labels. All the stuff you don’t notice until it breaks.
🍌 Positions, Trenches, Copytrading, Referrals
Positions now load smoother and behave like a table should. Trenches load faster with sharper selectors. Copytrading got tiny UI fixes and better positioning. Referrals got smarter code logic behind the scenes. Small wins that add up.
🍌 Under the Surface
More E2E tests for key features, a more stable CI pipeline, and a bunch of refactors and memoization fixes. The kind of work nobody sees but everybody feels.
“Banana Gun: better than your trading bot.” 🍌
Market Insights
Another week of charts pretending to sleep while the real action happens under the surface. Prices look dull, but the ecosystem is anything but quiet.
BitMine made the loudest move of all. The firm scooped up nearly 70,000 ETH in a single week and now controls 3 percent of the entire Ethereum supply. They basically called the drop to 2,500 dollars weeks ago and are treating this range as an asymmetric setup.
The dollar value of their stack dipped with the market, but the conviction is growing, not shrinking. When a treasury of that size leans harder into Ethereum, it sets a tone for everything built on top of it, including the tooling that powers on-chain automation.
DOGE and XRP are getting their Wall Street moment with Grayscale’s new ETFs hitting the NYSE. The lineup is starting to look crowded and the timing is rough. XRP has spent the last month bleeding and the new products are entering a market that feels tired. The ETF expansion keeps growing, but enthusiasm is clearly on pause.
Bitcoin ETFs just delivered one of their most active weeks ever with trading volumes blasting past 40 billion dollars. Activity is sky high, but the money is flowing out. Four straight weeks of red, more than 4 billion dollars gone since late October, and a market leaning heavily short. Everything is now pointing toward the FOMC meeting in December with rate cut expectations swinging wildly and volatility riding that wave.
ETH fundamentals strengthening, majors getting their ETFs, Bitcoin volatility driving massive ETF activity. Prices are slow, but positioning is shifting everywhere.
"Banana Gun: markets asleep, whales awake." 🍌
Community Highlights
The Banana corner of CT showed signs of life again this week. Price may drop, but the observers stayed sharp.
@andrealabate came in with the classic “zoom out” attitude, reminding everyone that real builders don’t lose time staring at red candles.
@cryptojack4u kept things simple and bold, the way only CT veterans can. Zero theatrics, just that quiet confidence that usually shows up early in a trend shift.
And @themontedev dropped the most distilled wisdom of the week. No charts, no numbers, just raw conviction energy. The type of post that ends up pinned after a few months.
The jungle speaks. See you next recap. 🍌
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