Hound — on-chain scent tracking

Case file

What he brings back.

Not a score out of a hundred. A path you can check: who funded whom, when, and for how much — with every address linked out to Solscan.

Sample case · not a real token

One ring in nine coats

passed a standard bundle check · zero direct funding links

IllustrativeTreed

Ring wallets

9

Supply held

31.4%

Hops to source

2

Funding spread

3m 40s

Amounts

Uniform

Findings

✕

9 wallets share a grandparent wallet31.4% of supply, funded within four minutes of each other in near-identical amounts.

!

7 top wallets are near-emptyUnder a dozen lifetime transactions — consistent with wallets made for this launch.

✓

Mint authority revokedSupply is fixed.

✓

Freeze authority revokedAccounts can't be frozen.

The trail

1 source3 intermediaries9 fresh wallets

Funding line-up

W114:02:110.400 SOL
W214:02:380.400 SOL
W314:03:020.401 SOL
W414:03:290.400 SOL
W514:03:550.399 SOL
W614:04:200.400 SOL
W714:04:470.400 SOL
W814:05:130.401 SOL
W914:05:510.400 SOL

A worked example of the output, not a detection. Nobody funds nine strangers 0.4 SOL each inside four minutes by accident — that pattern, not the shared funder, is what gets a ring treed.

The cover-up

Bundle checkers look one hop back. So the playbook added two.

Bypass tooling is sold in the open: spread SOL across a hundred wallets without linking them, and dodge the bundler flag on the big terminals. It comes down to three moves.

MOVE 1

Fund early

Five to fifteen fresh wallets, topped up days before launch so their age looks organic by the time anyone checks.

MOVE 2

Break the hop

Never straight from the deployer. Run it through intermediaries so the one shared funder every checker looks for doesn't exist.

MOVE 3

Blend in

Buy seconds or minutes after open, scattered among real traders. The same-block bundle signature never forms.

You can wash a wallet. You can't wash a habit.

Method

Four stages, straight out of the tracking manual.

A shared funder proves nothing on its own — exchanges fund everybody. What makes it a ring is funding that lands tight in both time and amount.

STAGE 1Cast

He circles for scent. Reads the mint, pulls the top holders, and throws out pools and program accounts until only real wallets are left.

LIVE

STAGE 2Strike

First scent. Finds whoever first sent each wallet SOL. One hop back — which is exactly where most checkers stop.

LIVE

STAGE 3Run

He runs the line. Follows those funders back another hop, clusters wallets on a shared ancestor, then measures how tight the funding was. Loose over months is an exchange. Nine wallets in four minutes is a ring.

LIVE

STAGE 4Tree

Quarry cornered. A ring can hide inside one launch; it can't hide across fifty. A bloodhound will work a trail that's days cold, and this stage is the same idea — memory of every launch. It needs an index that isn't built yet.

PLANNED

Field status

What works today, and what doesn't.

Every claim on this site wears one of these stamps, and a stamp doesn't move until the thing behind it is real.

Component	Status	What that means
Mint & authority checks	LIVE	Read straight from the mint account on mainnet.
Wallet / pool separation	LIVE	Top holders resolved to owners, then split by whether the owner is a person's wallet or a program.
Two-hop funding trace	LIVE	Each wallet walked back to its first SOL sender, and those senders walked back once more.
Time / amount scoring	LIVE	Thresholds are hand-set, not yet calibrated against labelled rings. Expect false positives.
Cross-launch memory	PLANNED	The durable edge. Needs a historical index that doesn't exist yet.
Real-time stream & alerts	PLANNED	On-demand only for now. Alpha an hour old isn't alpha.

Money & limits

Where the fees go, and where he won't.

Live at launch

Creator fees

Planned

Subscriptions · API

Multisig · address public

Treasury

60 percent

Development

40 percent

Buyback & burn

Nothing is paid out to holders. Paying revenue to token holders is close to the textbook definition of a securities offering, so value moves through buyback instead.

Wallets, never people

He links addresses to addresses using public chain data, the same as Nansen or Arkham. He doesn't link addresses to real-world identities. The product doesn't need it, and doxxing is a different kind of risk.

No practice range for the other side

Any detector can be used to tune evasion until it reads clean. So: rate limits, no exposed thresholds, no raw scores through the API. That raises the cost. Nothing removes it.

Questions

Including the one you're actually thinking.

Can I trust what he brings back?

Trust the raw trail, be careful with the verdict. Supply, authorities, holders and funding paths come straight off mainnet, and every address links to Solscan so you can check it yourself.

The verdict is a judgement on hand-set thresholds. It will throw false positives — a shared funder is very often just an exchange. Read the findings, then look at the path.

Why does he go quiet on big, old tokens?

Their top holders are exchanges and long-lived whales with histories too long to walk from a live call. He's built for tokens in their first hours, when the holders are fresh and the funding tree is still short. On an established token he'll tell you the trail is thin rather than invent one.

What stops them adapting again?

Nothing. It's an arms race and stays one. What makes stage four hold up longer is the price of the counter-move: to beat cross-launch memory you have to burn the whole wallet set after every launch, which costs real money and throws away the aged-wallet cover the playbook depends on.

Is $HOUND a rug?

Check the dev wallet on Solscan and the holder map yourself. There's a particular irony on offer here: a token about catching coordinated wallet rings would be a spectacularly stupid one to launch with a coordinated wallet ring. He gets pointed at his own mint first.

Risk disclosure

This is not an investment and nothing here is financial advice. The scanner is an analysis tool. A clean result is not a reason to buy and a flagged one is not proof of wrongdoing — both are readings of public data with known limits.

$HOUND does not exist yet. If launched it would be a token on a public bonding curve with no intrinsic value, no redemption right and no claim on any company, asset or revenue. Most tokens launched on Solana go to zero.

Nothing on this page is an offer to sell securities. Availability may be restricted where you live, and checking is on you.