Solana KOL Trading (2026): 1.5M SOL Volume from 485 Wallets
How we curate 1,069 Solana KOL wallets, what 485 active KOLs moved in 30 days (1.5M SOL across 79,736 tokens), and how to read the signal.
MadeOnSol Team·· 11 min read
How we curate 1,069 Solana KOL wallets, what 485 active KOLs moved in 30 days (1.5M SOL across 79,736 tokens), and how to read the signal.
A Solana KOL (key opinion leader) is a publicly-identified trader whose wallet activity is worth watching because their entries and exits reliably precede price moves. On MadeOnSol we curate 1,069 KOL wallets — every wallet manually verified against a real on-X identity, audited for trade history, and continuously indexed for buys and sells. In the last thirty days, 485 of those 1,069 KOLs have been active, posting 831,012 trades across 79,736 distinct tokens and moving a combined 1,473,892 SOL of volume.
That is the dataset behind the KOL Tracker. This article explains how the list is curated, what the underlying activity actually looks like, and the three filters that separate KOL signal from noise.
A KOL on Solana is not the same thing as a winning trader on a leaderboard. The defining property is identification: the wallet must be linked to a public X handle whose owner trades publicly enough that other traders can observe and react to their moves. A wallet that wins consistently but is anonymous is alpha; a wallet that is publicly identified, regardless of recent performance, is a KOL.
This matters for how you use the data. KOL wallets are useful for three different things, and you should know which one you are doing:
The same KOL feed supports all three. The dataset does not pre-judge which strategy you should run.
KOL onboarding is manual. We do not auto-promote wallets from on-chain performance into the KOL list — that work happens in the algorithmic alpha-wallet dataset, which is disjoint. Every wallet in kol_wallets was added by a human review with three checks:
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Open the KOL TrackerOnce added, the wallet's trades stream into kol_trades in real time via validator gRPC. There is no daily snapshot; new trades land in the database within roughly one second of confirmation.
Over the trailing thirty days, the active subset of the KOL list put up these numbers:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total trades | 831,012 |
| Active KOLs (1+ trade) | 485 of 1,069 |
| Distinct tokens touched | 79,736 |
| Average SOL per trade | 1.77 |
| Total volume | 1,473,892 SOL |
| Buy share of trades | 59.3% |
| Sell share of trades | 40.7% |
At a SOL price of roughly eighty dollars, that is on the order of 120 million dollars of monthly trading volume from 485 traders. The 79,736 distinct tokens is the more interesting number — KOLs collectively touch nearly eighty thousand different Solana tokens in a month, which is most of the new-launch supply on pump.fun. The implication: if you wait for "the KOLs to find a token," you are racing against a hose, not picking from a curated list.
The buy/sell split (59.3 / 40.7) is informative on its own. KOL trades skew toward buys because their exits are more conservative than their entries — many KOLs use small partial sells across multiple price points rather than one full exit, so a single position can generate multiple sell records, but inventory turnover is still finite. A buy-heavy ratio at the aggregate level says the KOL cohort is net-accumulating into the market, not distributing.
The four strategy buckets (with the size of each within the 408 tagged wallets) carry meaningful behavioral differences:
The strategy tag controls how you should read the trade. A scalper buying a token in the first minute is a momentum bet, not a thesis. A swing trader doing the same thing means something different.
A KOL's social-media follower count is the worst predictor of how useful their trades are as a signal. The three filters that actually matter:
The MadeOnSol KOL profiles show all three filters on every wallet: trade count over the period, computed win rate with realistic exit assumptions, and timing histograms for hold duration.
These are the six most-active KOLs over the last thirty days, ranked by buy-trade count. All numbers are live from kol_trades.
| KOL | X followers | Strategy | Trades (30d) | SOL volume | Tokens touched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cented | 552,088 | scalper | 28,349 | 39,682 | 5,517 |
| Cupsey | 191,728 | mixed | 19,363 | 11,120 | 3,767 |
| theo | 11,188 | scalper | 17,238 | 16,378 | 3,429 |
| dv | 32,325 | scalper | 14,576 | 7,151 | 3,640 |
| Cupsey (alt) | 191,728 | scalper | 13,399 | 5,006 | 3,033 |
| Heyitsyolo | 19,105 | scalper | 11,766 | 12,420 | 3,372 |
Two observations:
Cented's volume is in a different class. Twenty-eight thousand trades, nearly forty thousand SOL of buy volume, five and a half thousand distinct tokens — roughly nine hundred trades per day, one hundred eighty new tokens per day. That is not human discretionary trading; that is a single trader running a high-throughput scalping system. Treat the feed accordingly.
Follower count and trade volume do not correlate. theo has 11K followers and the second-highest dollar volume in this list. Cented has fifty times the followers and only twice the volume. Use the trade data, not the social metric.
Three public access paths:
1. KOL Tracker browse. The KOL Tracker shows the full 1,069-wallet roster with live activity, strategy tags, and X handles. Filter by tag, recent activity, or token overlap.
2. Per-wallet page. Every KOL wallet has its own profile at /kol-tracker/{wallet} with trade history, computed win rate, average hold time, and biggest miss. Anonymous, no signup.
3. API. The /v1/kol/trades endpoint streams the live feed. /v1/kol/{wallet}/timing returns hold-duration histograms. /v1/kol/tokens/hot and /v1/kol/tokens/trending surface tokens where multiple KOLs converged on buys. The full surface is documented in the API reference.
The MadeOnSol KOL dataset includes 1,069 curated wallets, of which 485 have been actively trading in the last thirty days. The list is manually reviewed; wallets are added by hand after on-X identification, behavioral fit checks, and trade-history audit.
Across the 485 active KOL wallets over the trailing thirty days, the total trading volume is 1,473,892 SOL — approximately $120 million at current SOL prices. The cohort touched 79,736 distinct tokens in that window, which is most of the new-launch supply on pump.fun.
A KOL wallet is a publicly identified trader, linked to a known X handle, that you can watch transparently. The alpha-wallet dataset is the algorithmic counterpart — anonymous wallets scored from on-chain behavior with no human verification. The two lists are disjoint by design. The 952K-candidate alpha dataset covers exactly how that algorithmic scoring and bot-filtering works.
Strategy tags (scalper, day trader, swing trader, hodler, mixed) are assigned by reviewing the wallet's typical hold duration, trade frequency, and position-sizing pattern over its lifetime. 408 of 1,069 KOL wallets are currently tagged; untagged wallets either have insufficient history or trade in a pattern that crosses categories.
Yes, but the realistic copy-trade lag from a KOL's confirmed buy to your own filled buy is typically between two and fifteen seconds, even with sub-second alerts. For scalper-tier KOLs, that lag is often longer than their average hold time, meaning you would be buying near their exit. We expose /v1/kol/{wallet}/timing to let you check each wallet's hold-duration distribution before deciding whether copy-trading them makes sense.
KOL trades stream in via validator gRPC and land in the database within roughly one second of on-chain confirmation. The browse pages, per-wallet profiles, and API endpoints all serve fresh data; there is no daily snapshot.
Tracking Solana KOLs only works if you remember which question you are answering. For copy trading, the limiting factor is your execution latency relative to a scalper's average hold time. For signal aggregation, the value is in convergence across multiple wallets, not any single trade. For fade trading, the buy-cluster moments worth fading are visible only when you have the full feed.
The MadeOnSol KOL Tracker gives you all three views over 1,069 curated wallets with 485 currently active. Start at the KOL Tracker to browse the roster, or hit /v1/kol/trades for the firehose. For backtesting offline, the full trade history — 1.5M+ KOL buys and sells, each row priced with the market cap and USD price at execution — is available as a downloadable CSV: the Solana KOL Trades dataset.