Identify the earliest buyers of a token and see whether they are still holding, added more, or have sold — useful for spotting early conviction, smart money, and potential insiders. Returns up to the top 1000 first buyers, paginated via offset and limit (offset + limit <= 1000).
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Earliest buyer timeline for a token.
- Buyers are ordered from earliest to latest.
position_statuscompares the wallet's current holding to the amount it held right after its first buy.buy_moremeans the wallet increased from its initial holding;holdmeans it kept the initial holding;sell_partialmeans it sold a meaningful portion;sell_allmeans it has almost fully exited.page_summaryaggregates position statuses for the buyers returned in the current page.- Wallet tags may include labels such as
bundler,smart_trader,sniper,dev, andinsider.
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Wallet Tag Definitions 🏷️
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dev — The wallet that created the token: the mint creator from the initialize-mint transaction.
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sniper — A wallet that bought within the first
nblocks of the token, counted from the token's first swap. On Solana,n = 5; a buy qualifies when its slot is withinfirst_trade_slot + 5. -
bundler — Coordinated buying detected in either level:
- Level 1: at least 4 buy transactions in the same slot.
- Level 2: at least 3 distinct wallets buying across adjacent slots, where max slot gap is 1.
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insider — A wallet that received the token directly from the Chef wallet via token transfer, not via a swap.
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smart_trader — A non-bot wallet ranked in Top Realized PnL over the last 90 days with realized PnL > $10,000. Wallets identified as bots are excluded before ranking and never receive this tag.
Use Cases 💡
- Reconstruct the first wave of conviction behind a token by seeing who entered earliest, how much they bought, and what they did afterward.
- Identify whether early buyers are still aligned with the token or already exited into later liquidity.
- Surface suspicious launches where first buyers are heavily tagged as insiders, bundlers, snipers, or other high-risk cohorts.
- Build early-holder leaderboards that distinguish real conviction from fast extraction using current holding and position status.
- Feed post-launch investigations, alpha research, and risk engines with the wallets that shaped the token's first market structure.
How to Use 🛠️
- Provide a Solana
token_address. - Use
offsetandlimitto page through the earliest buyers. - Start with the default
limit=70, then page forward if you need more of the first-buyer cohort. - Read
first_buy_volume,first_buy_volume_usd,initial_holding, andcurrent_holdingtogether to understand each wallet's behavior. - Use
position_statusandtagsto prioritize wallets worth deeper investigation.
Best Practices ✅
- Treat early buyers as a high-signal cohort, especially around new launches where first entries often shape the token's market structure.
- Combine
position_statuswith wallet tags to distinguish conviction from coordinated extraction. - Use first-buyers before wallet-tags-tracker when you need to know which wallets seeded the earliest market activity.
- Pair this endpoint with holder-positions to inspect current exposure and PnL for the wallets that entered first.
Limitations ⚠️
- Solana only.
- Pagination is limited to the first 1,000 buyers;
offset + limitmust not exceed 1,000. limitdefaults to 70 and supports up to 100 records per request.position_statusis relative to the wallet's initial holding after its first buy, not to all-time maximum exposure.