Dev wallet checker for Solana: check the dev before you ape

A dev wallet checker for Solana memecoins: what the dev holds, whether they sold, who funded them, wallet age, past launches and the rug-rate rule.

This reads the creator and the launching wallet, and that is all. A dev with a side wallet is out of frame.

Still worth the 20 seconds. Most devs we got burned by were not hiding. We just did not look.

The dev pill on every new pair's card, DS once the dev has sold: pump.fun new pairs.

Dev wallet tracker: where to look

• Dev pill: on the status line of a Trenches card, and under Indicators on a token page. It starts with the chef hat. Hover on a computer, tap on a phone.
• Crown figure: on the card's second line, and under Indicators. That is the dev's record.
• All facts: on the token page, Read more then All facts gives you Dev holds, Dev sold and Dev history.

Trenches cards with DS pills, crown records and dev lines under them.

Check the dev in five steps

1. What the dev holds. The pill shows the dev's share of supply. Hover it: "Dev holds 3%, most 12%". 5% or less passes. Over 5% goes warning colour with "Dev owns a lot". Over 20% is "Dev owns a big chunk", tagged High risk, and the score cannot go above 25. A dev with a fat bag does not need your opinion on the chart.

2. Whether they sold. Once the tape sees a sell, the share on the pill turns into DS and the pill goes warning colour. Hover for the amount: "Dev sold 4.2 SOL". Three lines can follow:

   • "Dev sold out": holds nothing now.
   • "Dev has sold": holds 5% or less.
   • "Dev sold, still holds lots": holds over 5%. Over 20% it is High risk.

   The last one is the worst. A dev at zero has no bag left in that wallet. A dev who sold and kept 15% is halfway out the door. Size matters too: 0.5 SOL and 30 SOL are different stories. Any dev sell takes 3 points off the score.

3. Who funded them. After the divider on the pill sits a mark. Hover it: "Dev funded from a wallet with 1.5 SOL, 3h ago, a fresh wallet".

   • Exchange logo or bank icon: the money came off an exchange. The trail stops there. Neutral on its own.
   • Wallet icon: another wallet, or a label we do not read as an exchange. It can be the dev's main or a throwaway. A small top-up just before launch looks like the second.
   • No mark: no funder named yet. That is a missing reading, not a pass.

4. Wallet age. The time beside the mark is how long ago the wallet was first funded. Under 24 hours counts as fresh: the pill warns even if the dev holds nothing, Against reads "Brand new dev wallet", and the score drops 4 points. A wallet made for this launch has no reputation to lose. An old wallet is not a clean wallet. It only means this one was not made yesterday.

5. Track record. The crown reads graduated over created, this launch included, so 1/3 is one graduate from three launches and 0/1 is the first launch we have. Hover it: "Dev graduated 1 of 3 launches".

   • More than 10 created: "Dev has made 14 tokens", 4 points off. The line counts the earlier ones.
   • 3 or more created and none graduated: "Dev's tokens never took off", 4 points off.
   • Any graduate, 10 or fewer created: "Dev has past hits", with the count under it.

   Dev history says the same in words: New dev, or the number of earlier launches, with a warning at 10. Then use your head. 1/3 can be a builder. 1/9 is someone pulling a lever. A graduate also proves the curve filled, not that the buyers made anything.

The rug-rate rule

A launch counts as rugged on our record when the dev sold and its last market cap sits 70% or more under its peak. Devs who dump without crashing it do not count.

The rule:

• 3 or more earlier launches and at least two in three rugged: the score cannot go above 25. Three rugged out of four trips it. Two out of four does not.
• 3 or more rugged, whatever the share: 6 points off.

You will see "Red flag caps it" or points off under Dev in What makes the score.

To cut these devs from a list, use Dev rugs in Filters. A maximum of 0 hides any dev with a rug on record. Filters hide what they can measure, so a token with no reading stays.

Two limits. The rug count lands once a tracked wallet trades the token or a read runs on it, so a fresh launch nobody tracked has touched cannot trip the rule.

And it covers at most the dev's last 40 launches, so a dev with more than 60 earlier launches cannot reach two in three, however bad the record. "Dev has made 80 tokens" is your warning there.

Want to browse devs instead of checking one? Copy a dev lists pump.fun devs by grade.

What a dev check cannot catch

• Side wallets. A sell from any other wallet shows no DS.
• Moved tokens. Transfers are not on our tape. Tokens sent elsewhere still count as held by the dev, and nothing reads as sold.
• A new wallet every launch. That dev reads New dev and 0/1, with a green tick. It only means nothing earlier from this wallet. The funding mark is your one tell.
• Long funding trails. We show the first funder, one hop back. A burner funded by a burner looks like a plain wallet.
• Short history. Our record of a dev's launches starts on 5 Oct.
• Anything outside the read window. The funding mark is read only past 30% of the curve, at 30 or more trades, inside the first 40 minutes. Otherwise, no mark.

A good dev record is not a promise. Clean devs dump, and bad devs get lucky. None of this is advice.

Before you send it

• DS on the pill? Open Against and see which of the three lines it is.
• Look for the word fresh in the pill's hover text, not just the colour.
• Read the crown as a hit rate, not a badge.
• A score stuck at 25 with no bad line in view: check Dev and Red flags in the sheet.
• Then check who else got in early: Bundles and insiders, or the full rug check.