Shotgun.fun, a new high-performance trading terminal, launched with a model built on a specific premise: every fee belongs to the trader. The terminal returns up to 100% of trading fees to traders, with cashback starting at 50%, already higher than any other trading terminal offering, and scaling with volume as tiers unlock.
The Specific Industry Standard Shotgun.fun Is Directly Challenging
Every trade ever placed has made someone else money: not the market and not the protocol, but the terminal sitting between traders and execution. The fee paid on every buy, every sell, and every limit order became the accepted status quo across the trading terminal industry, an unspoken extraction the platform's launch is explicitly framed as ending.
What "100% Cashback" Actually Means as a Destination, Not a Ceiling
Getting to 100% cashback is not an out-of-reach theoretical ceiling, it's the platform's actual destination for its highest tier. Cashback tiers are built to unlock fast, meaning traders don't need to reach an unrealistically high volume threshold before seeing meaningful fee returns beyond the 50% starting point.
What Security Model Shotgun.fun Actually Uses
The terminal is fully non-custodial, secured through Turnkey, ensuring keys are encrypted and accessible only to the user. That non-custodial structure means Shotgun.fun itself never holds or controls user funds directly, a distinction that matters for a trading terminal handling potentially significant trading volume.
What Additional Tools Shotgun.fun Actually Includes
Insiders have extracted hundreds of millions from everyday traders across recent token launches; Shotgun aims to even the playing field by shining a light on insider wallets, helping users view their trades and copy their moves in real time. The terminal also includes "Trenches," displaying new launches, graduating tokens, and fresh migrations in real time, ahead of broader market visibility, alongside trader discovery, instant one-click trading, and limit orders enabling autopilot trading from buying the dip to stop loss, take profit, and trailing stop loss.
How the Referral Program Actually Works
Shotgun also comes packed with a referral program that offers up to 50% revenue share across five layers of referrals, meaning users earn when their referrals trade, not just when they trade themselves. That five-layer structure extends earning potential beyond a user's direct referrals into a broader referral network.
Who Actually Built Shotgun.fun
Shotgun is led by Miguel Loures and Pedro Maurício, the founding team behind Pulsar Finance, a portfolio manager backed by Delphi Ventures that grew to more than one million users before being acquired by Terraform Labs. The team has been building in this specific space since 2020, giving Shotgun's launch a track record behind it rather than an entirely first-time founding team.
What Shotgun's Founder Said About the Platform's Purpose
Miguel Loures, founder of Shotgun, said until now, traders have been treated as the product, not as users, framing Shotgun's core mission as giving that power back to the people. Shotgun launches with support for Solana, with more blockchains and agentic trading capabilities coming soon according to the company.
Returning value directly to end users rather than extracting it through intermediary fees like this reflects a similar user-first economic model to the Bitunix Card's cashback and yield structure, both restructuring standard industry fee models to return more value directly to the end user.
Glossary
- Non-custodial: A platform structure where the service itself does not hold or control user funds, with keys remaining accessible only to the user.
- Cashback tier: A volume-based reward level determining what percentage of trading fees is returned to a trader.
- Insider wallet: A wallet address associated with early or privileged access to a token launch, often used to identify potentially informed trading activity.
Disclaimer
For informational purposes only, this article does not constitute financial or investment advice. Trading terminals and cashback-based reward structures carry market and smart contract risk. Confirm current details directly through official Shotgun.fun announcements.
