How to find insider wallets on Solana, and check one before you copy it

Insider wallets on Solana are easy to find and hard to copy. They sit at the top of the traders list of almost every token that pumped, with the best entries and the fastest profits. This guide shows where to find them on a token, how to confirm one from the wallet that funded it, and why copying an insider usually makes you the buyer it sells to.

We ran it on 18 September 2026 on a pump.fun token: of its five most profitable traders, all five carried a risk tag a follower cannot reproduce, and three had bought nothing on the market before selling [1].

What is an insider wallet on Solana?

An insider wallet is a wallet that bought a token before the information that moved it was public, usually because it is linked to the people who launched it. The link rarely shows in the trades themselves. It shows in three places on chain:

• The funding. The wallet got its first SOL from the deployer, from the deployer's funder, or from a fresh relay that funded several early buyers minutes before the launch.
• The timing. It bought in the launch block, often inside the same bundle as the creation, or just before a call went out.
• The tokens. It holds a supply it never bought on the market: the tokens reached it by transfer.

One sign alone proves little. Two of them on the same wallet is a pattern worth a closer look.

How do you find insider wallets on a token?

Start from a token that already moved, list its most profitable traders and its earliest buyers, then group them by the wallet that funded them. Insiders cluster: the same funder behind several of the best entries is the fastest tell there is.

By hand, on an explorer or a trading terminal:

1. Open the token and sort its traders by realized profit.
2. Note which ones bought in the first blocks after the creation.
3. Open each of them and read who funded it.
4. Look for funders that come back: one wallet behind five of the top twenty traders is one operator, not five traders.

With Ocinct, the Token traders tool does the four steps for you: paste the token address and get its 100 most profitable traders with their risk tags, grouped by the wallet that funded them.

Here is the run from 18 September 2026 on 7McW7LN6cF9mNTYZn6nVeku9igTTbvLg5m5r4RMfpump. All 100 traders shown were in profit. The top five:

The three rat traders bought $0 on the market and still sold between $338 and $542: their tokens came from somewhere other than a buy. Further down the list, one wallet had funded 8 of the 100 traders, another 7, another 6. A leaderboard would show you 100 winners. The funder groups show you a few operators.

How do you check who funded an insider wallet?

Read the wallet's first incoming SOL transfer: Solscan shows it as Funded by, near the top of the wallet page [2]. Then open that funder and do it again. Each hop answers a question:

• Funded by an exchange? Probably a person who withdrew SOL. Not proof of anything.
• Funded by the deployer, or by the deployer's funder? The wallet did not find the token, it was given it.
• Funded by a fresh wallet that funded other early buyers the same hour? A relay. The early buyers are one operator spread over several wallets.

Solscan shows one hop. The funding trail walks three levels on Pro and six on Elite, and stops early at an exchange, a loop or a wallet with no funder on record. For the method by hand, read what Funded by means on Solscan.

Insider or lucky early buyer: how do you tell?

Look at more than one token. One early entry is luck or speed. The same early entry on several tokens from the same deployer or the same funder is a pattern.

• A sniper buys in the first seconds of every launch it can reach. Its edge is speed, and it shows on hundreds of tokens with no link to their deployers.
• A bundler buys in the same block as the launch, with several wallets in one bundle so the launch looks like demand. It is often linked to the creator.
• An insider is early on some tokens, not all: the ones launched by people it is funded by or funds.
• A human early buyer comes in minutes later, on tokens with no funding link to it, and holds for minutes to hours.

Ocinct marks the first two as sniper and bundler, a wallet linked to the team that created its tokens as dev team, and a wallet that buys just before a call or a pump as rat trader. Each tag removes 20 points from the wallet score, up to 40, because a follower cannot reproduce any of them. The detail of each mark is in how to tell if a Solana wallet is a bot.

Can you copy trade insider wallets?

Rarely with profit. An insider's edge is being first, and a copy is by construction second: your bot only sees the insider's buy once it has landed, then sends its own, which lands in a later block at a higher price.

It gets worse on the way out. The insider sells into the demand that arrives after it, and a copy trader who bought late is part of that demand. You are its exit liquidity. The table above shows it: three of the five best results on that token belong to wallets that paid nothing for their tokens.

How do you track insider wallets without becoming their exit liquidity?

Use them as a signal about the token, not as wallets to copy.

• Before you buy a token, list its top traders. If the best results belong to bundlers, snipers and rat traders sharing a few funders, the demand you see is mostly theirs.
• When a group you know shows up early on a new token, treat it as a warning, not a buy signal: they will be selling into whoever follows.
• Keep the wallets you want to follow clean. Scan them before you copy them, and drop the ones with risk tags. A list scan takes 100 addresses in one message and keeps the ones that pass your filters.
• Keep an eye on crews, not single wallets: wallets that move together are one decision copied several times.

Sources

[1] Ocinct Token traders, run on 18 September 2026 on 7McW7LN6cF9mNTYZn6nVeku9igTTbvLg5m5r4RMfpump, the same output as on the home page: https://www.ocinct.com/token-traders

[2] Solscan help center, What is Funded by: https://info.solscan.io/what-is-funded-by/

[3] Helius, Wallet API, Funded by, definition and funder types: https://www.helius.dev/docs/wallet-api/funded-by

[4] Ocinct score method, risk tags and their penalty: https://www.ocinct.com/how-it-works