TL;DR
Holder distribution shows how a token’s supply is spread across wallets, revealing concentration risk — whether a few wallets control enough supply to crash the price.
A token where the top 10 holders own 60% of supply is a ticking time bomb — any of those wallets selling will cause massive price impact. Healthy distribution means supply is spread across many wallets with no single holder able to meaningfully crash the price. For memecoins, the deployer’s holdings and the concentration among early buyers are the most important metrics.
When analyzing holders, exclude known addresses like DEX pools (Raydium, Orca), the bonding curve contract, and burn addresses. What matters is the percentage held by individual wallets. Check if top holders are related (same funding source, bought in same bundle) using Token Scanner’s bundle detection. Ten wallets each holding 3% that all funded from the same source is effectively one entity holding 30%.
Healthy: no single wallet (excluding pools and known contracts) holds more than 3-5% of supply, top 10 holders own less than 25% combined, and holders appear unrelated. Unhealthy: deployer holds 10%+, top 5 wallets hold 40%+, multiple wallets funded from the same source, or wallets that bought in the same bundle. The more organic and spread out the distribution, the safer the token.