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How to Find Insider Memecoin Wallets on Solana
The manual way to find insider Sol wallets, why most of them lose you money when you copy them, and a faster way to get wallets worth copying and devs worth sniping.
By @ceosvex4 min read
Every memecoin that runs has the same story in its first minutes. A handful of wallets are in before anyone has heard the name, and they are out with profit while the crowd is still buying. Traders call them insider wallets. Find the right ones, copy their buys, and you are early without being an insider yourself.
This guide shows how to find those wallets by hand, why most of the ones you find are a trap, and how to get to a clean list much faster.
Most wallets that trade memecoins are not worth copying
What "insider wallet" really means
On Solana the label covers three different things:
- Wallets that are early again and again. They show up in the first buyers of many winners, not one. This is skill or information, and it is the kind worth following.
- Wallets tied to the dev. Funded by the deployer, or buying in the same block as the launch. They are early because they are the team.
- Bundles. A group of fresh wallets that buy together at launch to fake demand and hold supply.
Only the first group helps you. The other two are the people who sell to whoever is copying them.
The manual way
You can do this with free tools. It works, and it takes hours.
- Pick a token that already ran. Choose one that went from launch to a real market cap, not one that spiked for two minutes.
- Open its earliest buyers. On Dexscreener or GMGN, open the top traders list and sort by who bought first and who made the most.
- Open each wallet. Check its history on Solscan or GMGN: how many tokens it traded, how many closed in profit, how long it holds.
- Repeat on five to ten more winners. One early buy is luck. You are looking for the same wallet near the start of several.
- Throw out the obvious junk. Wallets a day old, wallets funded by the deployer, wallets with one giant win and nothing else.
- Add what is left to your bot and wait to see if it works.
Most people stop at step 3, copy a wallet with a big profit number, and lose money. Here is why.
Why most insider wallets are bad to copy
Their profit is not your profit. The wallet bought at launch price. You buy after it, at a worse price, and you pay fees and tips on the way in and out. A wallet can be up 40% on a trade that loses money for everyone who copied it one second later.
All 18 of these Watch wallets win more often than a copy of them does
| Wallet | Own win rate | Copies closed in profit | Copy, average per token |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dvbv…UaRv | 58% | 38% | +40% |
| E2kn…4o9A | 56% | 47% | +26% |
| AXmM…PJwd | 54% | 44% | +16% |
| ENGk…w8CT | 76% | 44% | +20% |
| BHkq…jbv1 | 59% | 27% | +69% |
| HuMp…kgid | 55% | 47% | +109% |
| HSeC…1ENB | 77% | 38% | +15% |
| 4d14…7zw1 | 63% | 32% | +13% |
| 9NJi…gKLr | 52% | 36% | +6% |
| EX2L…aZs8 | 51% | 32% | +1% |
| 7dEW…ttBa | 67% | 46% | +23% |
| GRES…xzee | 60% | 46% | +59% |
| EXfF…46ou | 62% | 27% | +5% |
| CQXW…ebET | 54% | 48% | +52% |
| B3ng…T5VF | 52% | 27% | +3% |
| HVba…Gxrx | 74% | 44% | +26% |
| GDKS…ny1Z | 53% | 36% | +42% |
| 63Qu…KKH5 | 52% | 37% | +13% |
Some of them want to be copied. Dev wallets and bundles look like geniuses on paper: early in, large profit. Copy bots buying after them are the exit.
Last month is not this week. A wallet that printed in a hot week can go cold. A list you built by hand is out of date within days.
You only looked at ten tokens. The best wallets may never have touched the ones you checked.
So the real question is not "who was early". It is "who can I copy and still make money after costs".
The faster way: wallets to copy and profitable devs
Hood Hunt answers that question for you. It does not trade and it never connects to your wallet. It tells you who is worth following, and you do the trading in your own bot.
Wallets to copy. Every wallet gets a plain verdict: Copy, Watch, Check or Skip. The verdict comes from a copy test: what you would have earned buying one second after that wallet, after fees, tips and entry delay. A wallet that only looks good on its own numbers does not pass.
Profitable devs. The other half of early money is the launch itself. Hood Hunt shows which devs keep launching tokens that reach your target market cap, how clean those launches are, and how fast the dev sells. Each dev has 35 metrics, and every launch shows bots and bundles. If you snipe launches, this is your list.
Fresh, not stale. The data covers the last 30 days and is rebuilt every hour. A Hot view shows the wallets earning the most right now.
Checked, not just ranked. The wallet score was tested on a week it had never seen. Of the top wallets by score, 73% closed the following seven days in profit, against 52% for all wallets.
73% of the top wallets by score closed the next week in profit, against 52% of all wallets
| Group | Closed the next 7 days in profit |
|---|---|
| Top 200 by score | 73% |
| All wallets | 52% |
Hood Hunt does not stamp a wallet as an "insider". It shows something more useful: whether following it pays.
What to do with the list
- Open Wallets and keep the ones marked Copy.
- Narrow them with filters to match how you trade: hold time, size, win rate.
- Paste them into the bot you already use, such as Axiom, GMGN, Trojan, Padre or Bloom.
- If you snipe, open Devs, pick the ones whose launches reach your target cap, and set your sniper on their next launch.
- Come back each week. Wallets and devs move between verdicts as their results change.
The short version
Insider wallets are easy to find and hard to profit from. Being early is not the test. The test is whether a copy of the trade still makes money after costs, and whether the dev behind a launch has a record of tokens that go somewhere. Do that check by hand across hundreds of wallets, or open a list where it is already done.
Past results are not a promise of future ones. Memecoins are high risk, and you can lose everything you put in.