Presets on Padre: Slippage, Gas and Inferno Mode
Presets are where most of the money quietly leaks on a memecoin trade. Not the platform fee — the slippage you allowed, the priority you underpaid, and the protection you did not have on that chain. Here is every setting Padre exposes and where each one applies.
Three slots and an adaptive one
Padre gives you P1, P2 and P3, fully customisable, plus Inferno Modeon Solana which tunes itself. The selected preset applies automatically when you place a trade, which is the point: you decide execution policy once, while calm, not per order while a chart moves.
The four settings, and where they exist
| Setting | Solana & BNB | Ethereum | Base |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prio (priority fee) | in SOL / BNB | in Gwei | in Gwei |
| Tip (builder incentive) | yes | — | — |
| Slippage | yes | yes | yes |
| MEV protection | yes | yes | not available |
That last cell is the one worth remembering. MEV protection does not exist on Base — Padre documents it plainly. Trading the same strategy on Base as on Solana means accepting a front-running exposure you did not have a moment ago, and nothing in the interface will stop you.
Slippage is a liquidity decision
Padre’s documentation uses 20% in its EVM examples and 3% in a Solana one. Both are illustrations, not recommendations, and the spread between them is the honest answer: slippage tolerance belongs to the pool you are trading, not to your preferences.
Too tight and the order simply fails on a moving token. Too loose and you have pre-authorised a terrible fill — on a thin pool, the slippage you allowed is usually larger than every fee layer added together. The price impact calculator turns that into a number for your size, and what a trade actually costs breaks down the layers.
Inferno Mode: racing other bots
On Solana, Inferno Mode stops treating fees as a setting and starts treating them as a race. It adjusts priority and tip dynamically and sends the same transaction to several top builders simultaneously — Padre names bloXroute, NextBlock, Temporal and Jito.
The obvious worry is paying four times. Padre documents the answer: a custom Solana program finalises whichever transaction lands first and discards the rest, builders charge tips only on successful transactions, and a reverted transaction costs the priority fee alone. It is pre-configured and deliberately not user-adjustable.
Use it when speed decides the outcome — a launch, a fast-moving bonding curve, the situations Trenches is built for. For a considered entry on a liquid pair, a hand-tuned preset costs less.
Setting a preset without guessing
- Set slippage from the pool depth you are about to trade, not from a number you reuse everywhere.
- Keep one conservative preset for liquid pairs and one aggressive for launches — that is what three slots are for.
- On Base, assume no MEV protection and size accordingly.
- Read the gas and slippage shown at the bottom of the order panel before confirming; it reflects the preset in force. The order fields themselves are on the order types page.
- Check which venue your pair actually lives on — the DEXes Padre routes through differ per chain, and so does pool depth.
Execution settings matter most once you have decided to trade Padre in the first place.
Presets and slippage — questions
What slippage should I use on Padre?
Padre’s own documentation uses 20% in its examples for EVM chains and 3% in a Solana example, which tells you there is no single right answer — it depends on the pool. Thin liquidity needs more tolerance to fill at all, and more tolerance is exactly what lets a bad fill happen. Start from the pool, not from a habit.
What is Inferno Mode?
A Solana-only adaptive preset. Instead of fixed values it adjusts priority and tip automatically to stay competitive with rival bots, and uses multi-send routing — the same transaction goes to several top builders at once. It is pre-configured and cannot be adjusted by hand.
Do I pay several times if Inferno Mode sends multiple transactions?
No. Padre documents a custom Solana program that finalises whichever transaction lands first and discards the rest, and states that builders only charge tips for successful transactions. A reverted transaction costs the priority fee only.
What is the difference between Prio and Tip?
Prio is the base priority fee that decides how quickly the network picks your transaction up. Tip is an extra incentive paid to block builders on top of that. Tips exist on Solana and BNB; on Ethereum and Base there is no tip field, only a priority fee in Gwei.
Is MEV protection available on every chain?
No. Padre documents MEV protection as a toggle on Solana, BNB and Ethereum, and states it is not available on Base. If you are trading on Base, that layer of front-running protection is simply not part of the picture.
How many presets can I save?
Three customisable slots — P1, P2 and P3 — plus Inferno Mode on Solana. Once configured, the selected preset applies automatically when you place a trade.
Preset fields, chain availability, the builder list and Inferno Mode behaviour are as published in Padre’s own app guide — archived copies of custom-presets (27 April 2025) and transaction-settings (11 April 2025), since that documentation site went offline in September 2026. Example percentages are Padre’s illustrations, not recommendations. Nothing here is trading advice.