DegenPass vs Maestro
If you are weighing Maestro against DegenPass as a Telegram trading bot, the useful comparison is what each side can be shown to do. This page shows our side, and a check you can run on any bot.
If you searched for a Maestro alternative, this page covers how DegenPass lets a reader buy a token from Telegram with a Byte Exchange USDT balance, and what it checks before the buy.
Byte Exchange has not run its own field observation of this bot, so this page makes no claim about what it does, what it charges, or what it does not do. Everything below describes DegenPass, which we can evidence, plus a check you can run yourself against any bot — including ours.
What the DegenPass bot does
- Buying without an external wallet — A DegenPass swap runs from a Byte Exchange account. The trade executes on-chain through a DEX aggregator across seven networks, and the reader never connects a wallet, pastes a seed phrase or signs an approval.
- Safety checks that show their working — Contract-safety findings, liquidity and LP-lock readings, holder distribution and a published nine-part trust score, each stamped with when it was measured. A part we could not confirm yet is shown as “not confirmed yet” and lowers the score — it is never rounded up into a pass.
- Buy alerts and group protection — An admin turns on buy alerts with one tap or one command, and every buy of the group’s token gets a card with a button to buy it. Protection asks new members for a short check and filters spam, while admins and contract addresses always go through.
- A share for the group admin — Swaps that start in a group are attributed to that group through the exchange’s own reward ledger, and that attribution is what an admin share is paid from. The rate is set by Byte Exchange and published on the DegenPass page, with a calculator that gives an estimate — an estimate only, because what a group earns depends on its members’ own trading.
- Free to add and to use — There is no subscription and no per-scan charge. Byte Exchange earns from the trading fee on swaps.
- A verifiable identity — The official handle is published on bexc.io, on this site, and the bot links back to it. Two links that agree is the check.
Questions to ask before you pick a bot
- Where do the funds for a buy come from, and who holds the keys to them?
- Is a safety check on the token shown before the buy, and is it stamped with when it was taken?
- What does one trade cost in total — a subscription, a per-scan charge, or only a trading fee?
DegenPass, answered against the checklist
| Question | DegenPass |
|---|---|
| Wallet to connect? | None — trades run from your Byte Exchange account. |
| Seed phrase to paste? | None. The bot never asks for one, for a signature, or for code to run. |
| Subscription or per-scan fee? | Neither. Byte Exchange earns from the trading fee on swaps. |
| Networks? | Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Robinhood Chain and Solana. |
| Safety check before the buy? | Yes. Every scan card carries contract-safety checks (honeypot behaviour, mint and freeze authority, ownership) next to its Buy button. |
| Readings dated? | Yes. Every reading is stamped with when it was measured. |
| A check that has not run? | Shown as “not confirmed yet” and it lowers the score; it is never shown as a pass. |
| Group admin share? | A portion of the trading fee on swaps that start in the group, paid when group rewards are switched on for it. Rewards are being rolled out group by group. |
| Identity check? | The official handle is published on bexc.io, and the bot links back to it. |
How to judge any Telegram token bot — including ours
- Where does the trade execute, and what does the reader hand over to make it happen? A bot that holds a wallet for you is a different trust decision from one that trades from an exchange account.
- When a safety check has not run, does the bot say so, or does it quietly show a clean result? “Not measured” and “passed” are different answers.
- Is every reading stamped with the time it was taken? A figure with no measurement time cannot be checked later.
- Is the handle published somewhere you can reach by typing an address yourself, rather than only through a link you were sent?
- Does the bot ever ask you to connect a wallet, paste a seed phrase, sign a message or run code? None of those is something a token bot needs from you.
- If the bot pays group admins, where does the money come from, and can you see the amount that was actually credited rather than a projection?
Frequently asked questions
- Does the DegenPass bot need a wallet connection?
- No. Swaps run from a Byte Exchange account and execute on-chain through a DEX aggregator, so there is no wallet to connect and no seed phrase to enter.
- Does the DegenPass bot cost anything?
- No. Adding it, scanning tokens, checking prediction odds and the first-call leaderboard are free. Byte Exchange earns from the trading fee on swaps.
- How do I confirm which bot is the official one?
- Compare the handle with the one published at bexc.io/degenpass/bot, reached by typing the address yourself. The official bot never asks you to connect a wallet, paste a seed phrase, sign a message or run code.