To trade on Elysium, you bridge HYPE over from HyperEVM and buy through a Telegram trading bot. Banana Gun went live on Elysium with mainnet on 9 Nov 2026, and the bridge runs inside the bot. Here is how to get gas, bridge and land your first buy.
What do you need to trade on Elysium?
You need HYPE and a Telegram account. Per Elysium’s docs, HYPE is the native gas token on Elysium, so there is no new coin to buy just to make a transaction. Bankless said the same on 19 Oct 2026: users won’t need a new token to transact.
Everything else lives inside a Telegram trading bot. Banana Gun’s site shows 1.5M+ lifetime users, 26M+ lifetime trades and $16B+ lifetime volume, as read on 3 Nov 2026. That is the size of the crowd already using this Telegram trading bot.
The chain itself is built for speed. Elysium’s docs describe blocks of a tenth of a second and a perceived receipt of about 0.3 seconds, so a buy should confirm fast.
Speed shows up in practice. In the first hours of mainnet, Bankless saw blocks landing every 50 to 90 milliseconds, and Banana Gun’s guide says a buy typically confirms in well under a second.
How does the 1:1 bridge get your HYPE onto Elysium?
Elysium settles to HyperEVM, so your HYPE starts there. The docs say HYPE bridges in 1:1 as native gas and withdraws 1:1, with no wrapper asset and no staking hop in between.
The shortest route runs inside Banana Gun. Its day-one guide says to fund the bot wallet with HYPE on HyperEVM, then use the bot’s bridge to move it to Elysium without leaving Telegram.
The official bridge at elysium.kinetiq.xyz/bridge works too, and it is the only outside link to trust.
Coming back works differently. The docs describe standard optimistic withdrawals with a challenge period, so you plan a bridge out ahead of time.
That is why you bridge only what you plan to trade. Keep the rest of your HYPE on HyperEVM, where it stays flexible, and top up Elysium when a setup earns it.
How do you place your first Banana Gun buy on Elysium?
Banana Gun’s first-trade guide covers the basics on any chain. The steps below adapt it to Elysium now that mainnet is live.
Search @BananaGun_bot in Telegram and tap Start. The guide says you need no email or account beyond Telegram.
Create a new wallet or import one. Only fund what you plan to trade.
Select Elysium as your active chain before anything else, so trades and balances point at the right network.
Fund the wallet with the right asset for the network. On Elysium that is the HYPE you bridged, plus enough to cover gas on top of the buy, since a failed transaction still costs gas.
Paste the token’s contract address. The bot shows the name, current price, liquidity and a basic security scan, and the guide says to verify the address from official channels first because contract address scams are among the most common ways traders lose money.
Set slippage and tap Buy. The guide suggests 1-3% for liquid tokens and 5-15% for volatile or thin ones, notes that higher slippage raises sandwich attack risk, and says default gas is fine for most trades.
Then check the confirmation message. It carries a transaction hash you can open on Elyscan, the Elysium block explorer, to see whether the trade went through and what you paid.
Which Banana Gun features and day-one apps matter for your first trade?
Banana Gun offers copy trading, limit orders and take-profit and stop-loss on other chains, including HyperEVM, Solana and Robinhood Chain. Its Elysium guide covers the market buy, so check in the bot which of them are switched on for Elysium.
There is plenty to look at on day one. On 3 Nov 2026 Banana Gun’s blog named its day-one partners: the DEXes Nest and Dawn, the prediction market app Speculate, and the launchpads Montra and Citadel.
Bankless’s launch-day report lists Nest and Uniswap among the apps live at launch. Banana Gun’s blog expects fresh token launches early.
Per Elysium’s docs, direct links to Hyperliquid’s order books arrive later, in an upgrade about four weeks after mainnet. Your first weeks of trading on Elysium happen in on-chain pools and launchpads.
Banana Gun also pledged on X on 2 Nov 2026 that 40% of net trading revenue will fuel $KNTQ buybacks and burns.
Ready to make your first Elysium trade?
Pick a small amount of HYPE, work out which tokens you want to look at, and keep the official docs open in a tab.
Open Banana Gun on Telegram, select Elysium, bridge your first HYPE inside the bot and have your contract address check ready. When the next launch appears, you will already be set up to look at it.
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