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How to Snipe Dev Wallets on Solana
A Sol sniper bot only executes. The edge is choosing which dev to snipe. How dev sniping works, how to set it up, and how to pick devs with a record.
By @ceosvex5 min read
Most people shopping for a Sol sniper compare speed. Which Solana sniper lands first, which has the best nodes, which has the lowest fee.
Speed matters, but it is the second question. A sniper bot executes. It buys whatever you point it at, as fast as it can. If you point it at a dev who dumps in the first minute, a faster sniper just gets you into a bad trade sooner.
The edge is choosing the dev. This guide covers both halves: how dev sniping works, and how to pick who to snipe.
Choosing who to follow comes before choosing a tool
- Decide whoWallets to copy and devs to snipe. This is where a wallet finder such as Hood Hunt sits.
- ExecuteYour own bot or terminal: Axiom, GMGN, Trojan, Padre, Bloom or Blizz.
- ReviewYour own log. Keep what paid after costs, cut the rest.
What sniping a dev wallet means
There are two kinds of sniping on Solana.
Sniping everything. The bot buys every new launch that passes some filters. You are betting on filters.
Sniping a dev. The bot watches one dev wallet and buys only when that wallet launches a new token. You are betting on a person's record.
This article is about the second kind. It is slower to set up and far more selective.
Blizz documents this model clearly: a snipe order watches one creator wallet, and when that wallet launches a new coin on a selected launchpad, it buys for your set amount. Ordinary buys and sells by that wallet are ignored. Other bots have their own versions, so check the docs of the one you use. (Disclosure: Hood Hunt has a one-click settings export for Blizz.)
How to set up a dev snipe
The steps are similar in any Sol sniper bot.
- Fund a separate wallet. Use a trading wallet with only what you are ready to lose. Never your main holdings.
- Add the dev wallet as a target. One order per dev.
- Choose launchpads. Limit the order to the launchpads the dev really uses.
- Set a fixed buy amount. Same size every time. Do not size up after a win.
- Set slippage, priority fee and tip. New launches move fast, so these need to be higher than on a normal swap. Higher is not free: every bit comes out of your result.
- Set a dev buy filter if your bot has one. Blizz lists a dev-buy range among its pre-buy checks. A dev who normally buys a small amount and suddenly buys a huge one has changed the trade.
- Set the exit before the entry. Take profit, stop loss, or a timer. A snipe has no target sells to follow, so the exit is on you.
- Use pauses. Blizz documents automatic pauses, for example after the first snipe. A pause after one buy stops a dev who launches ten tokens in an hour from draining your wallet.
What it costs
Every snipe pays three things: the bot's platform fee, the network priority fee and a tip, on both the buy and the sell. Blizz, as one example, lists a base platform fee of 1.00% per swap, falling with volume. Add slippage on a thin new pool.
So a snipe starts in the red. The token has to move enough to clear all of that before you make anything. This is why the dev's record matters so much: you need launches that travel, not launches that twitch.
8 of 259,205 devs pass all 4 default checks
| Check | Devs left |
|---|---|
| All devs | 259,205 |
| 3+ launches | 32,175 |
| Reach $20K in half of their launches | 411 |
| First-second cap under $10K | 171 |
| Clean to $20K, drawdown 50% at most | 8 |
How to choose the dev
A dev is worth sniping when the record shows:
- Launches that reach your target. Decide the market cap at which your snipe pays. Count how many of the dev's launches got there.
- Many launches, not one. One runner is noise.
- Recent form. Hits in the last few weeks.
- Slow dev sells. If the dev exits before you can, there is no trade.
- Clean launches. Few bots, no big bundle holding supply over your head.
The manual way to build this record is in How to Find Dev Wallets on Pump.fun. It works. It also takes hours per dev.
A dev record is built launch by launch
By hand
- Find the wallet that created the token
- Open every token it launched
- Note how far each one went
- Check each first block for bundles
- Find the dev's sell on each launch
- Start again with the next dev
From a dev list
- Set your target market cap
- Keep devs who reach it cleanly
- Paste their wallets into your sniper
The usual mistakes
Sniping a dev off one winner. You saw one token run and added the dev. Check the other launches first.
Ignoring bundles. If the dev's own side wallets take a large share of supply in the first block, you are buying next to people who will sell into you.
No exit rule. "I will watch it" does not work at launch speed.
Too many devs, too much size. Twenty devs at full size is twenty ways to lose at once. Start with a few and a small buy amount.
Stale lists. Devs rotate wallets and change habits. A list from last month is a guess.
Where Hood Hunt fits
Hood Hunt is the part before the sniper. It is not a bot and it never connects to your wallet. It tells you which devs are worth pointing your sniper at.
- Devs that keep hitting your target market cap. You set the target, it shows who keeps reaching it.
- How clean their launches are. Every launch shows bots and bundles.
- How fast the dev sells.
- 35 metrics per dev, from the last 30 days, rebuilt every hour.
You sort, filter, pick your devs and paste their wallets into the sniper you already run. One month is 2.5 SOL. See pricing.
A simple routine
- Once a week, pull the devs whose launches reach your target often and recently.
- Remove any with heavy bundles or fast dev sells.
- Replace last week's targets in your sniper.
- Keep buy size fixed. Log every snipe: entry, exit, result after costs.
- After twenty snipes, read the log. Cut what does not pay.
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The short version
A Solana sniper is an executor. It makes you fast, not right. Being right is choosing devs whose launches go far enough to cover the cost of sniping them. Pick the dev first, then let the bot do its job.
Past results are not a promise of future ones. Memecoins are high risk, and you can lose everything you put in.