Axiom.trade settings: what each one does

Most of what decides whether an Axiom trade fills, fails or fills at a bad price is set before you click buy. The Axiom.trade settings that matter fall into three groups: execution settings stored in presets (slippage, priority fee, bribe and MEV mode), speed tools (Quick Buy, the Instant Trade panel and hotkeys), and wallet and security options. This guide explains each one with its trade-off and says where Axiom's documentation stops.

What do Axiom.trade settings control?

They control how your order is sent, not what you buy. Every spot trade on Solana carries four execution choices: slippage, priority fee, bribe and MEV mode. Axiom stores these in presets, so you choose them once and not on every trade.

The documented defaults are a 0.001 SOL priority fee and a 0.001 SOL bribe, according to Axiom's Solana fees page. Axiom also suggests values automatically. These costs are separate from Axiom's own trading fee, which the fee breakdown covers.

How do presets P1, P2 and P3 work?

A preset is a saved bundle of slippage, priority fee, bribe and MEV mode. Axiom gives you three, labelled P1, P2 and P3, and you choose which one is active when you trade. Whichever preset is active applies to your next order, including one-click buys.

One way to use the three slots is by situation: one for established tokens with deeper liquidity, one for new and volatile pairs, and one for exits where getting out matters more than the price. Axiom does not prescribe this. It simply stops you carrying an aggressive setup into a calm trade, where it only costs you money.

Axiom settings at a glance: what each one does and costs

What slippage should you set on Axiom?

Axiom gives no official number. The docs only say to adjust slippage to the token's volatility. Slippage is a limit, not a fee: if the price moves by more than your limit before the transaction lands, the order fails and does not fill at a worse price.

Third-party guides often mention 15-30% slippage for brand-new pairs. Treat that as community habit, not Axiom guidance. It reflects how fast a new memecoin's price moves, and it means you have agreed in advance to pay up to that much more than the quote, which is the gap that sandwich bots aim to capture.

A better method than copying a number is to watch your own results. If orders keep failing, slippage or fees are too low for those conditions, and a failed transaction can still cost network fees. If orders fill far above the quote, slippage is higher than the token needs. Set it per preset so a high value for new pairs never applies to a liquid token.

How do priority fee, bribe and Katana Mode affect speed?

The priority fee and the bribe both pay for faster inclusion, and both default to 0.001 SOL in the docs. When many traders compete for the same token at once, underpaying can mean your transaction lands late or not at all.

These are fixed amounts per transaction, so their weight depends on trade size. At the defaults, a buy and a sell cost 0.004 SOL in priority fees and bribes combined. On a 0.1 SOL position that is 4% of the trade before Axiom's fee and slippage. On a 5 SOL position it is 0.08%. Raising both settings tenfold for speed turns the first figure into 40%.

Katana Mode hands this decision to Axiom through predictive fees. It suits traders who do not want to tune fees by hand. If you prefer a hard cap on what each transaction pays, fixed values in a preset give you that.

Which MEV mode should you pick?

Axiom's docs recommend Secure. The three modes are Off, Reduced and Secure. Reduced routes through Jito, and the docs note that rogue validators remain possible. Secure sends transactions only to whitelisted validators, which the docs say may be slower.

A sandwich attack puts a bot's buy in front of your order and its sell straight after, so you pay more and the bot keeps the difference. High slippage makes you a better target, which is why MEV mode and slippage should be set together. Our Axiom MEV protection guide goes through the modes in detail.

How do Instant Trade, hotkeys and Quick Buy amounts work?

These are the speed tools, and they use whichever preset is active. Instant Trade is a floating one-click buy and sell panel that sits next to the chart, with hotkeys built on spacebar combinations and a live PnL display.

Quick Buy is the lightning-bolt button on token lists such as Pulse. You set its amount in advance, and Pulse allows a separate quick-buy amount per table, so the New Pairs column can carry a smaller size than the Migrated column. We do not suggest amounts. The point is to choose the size while calm, because one click spends it with no second prompt.

Hotkeys deserve the same care, because a shortcut that buys can fire while you are typing elsewhere. If you are new to the terminal, learn the layout with the Axiom walkthrough first. Exits can be prepared in advance using limit orders and Auto-Strategies.

Wallet and security settings: multi-wallet and seed phrase export

Axiom supports up to 25 active wallets per account, and its docs say your seed phrase is accessible at any time in your settings. Multiple wallets let you separate strategies, for example by keeping a low-balance wallet for risky experiments.

On the seed phrase, the official statement is simply "in your settings". Third-party guides give the path as Settings, then Account and Security, then Manage Wallets, then the key icon. We could not confirm that path in the docs, and menus change. Axiom's Terms say it does not store copies of keys, so it cannot recover them for you. An offline copy of the phrase is the only backup you have. The docs suggest Phantom, Rabby or Solflare as wallets you can import it into.

Other security-related items to review:

• Login methods. Axiom supports email one-time codes, Google and Phantom. The changelog added "Additional Auth Methods" on 2025-07-28 without describing them in detail, so look in the account section of settings for the options on offer. The Axiom login guide covers the safe routine.
• Your browser. A logged-in session can trade, and Socket reported in September 2026 that malicious extensions stole Axiom session data. Remove extensions you do not need from the browser profile you trade in.

Sources: Axiom docs: Solana fees, Axiom docs: Instant Trade, Axiom docs: Signup, Axiom in-app changelog (checked 2026-09-17). The 15-30% slippage range comes from third-party guides, not from Axiom.