Jev traces Solana wallet funding to expose copy-trading traps
Tracing each holder's first SOL back to its funder, clustering wallets by shared source and scoring the rest, Jev and Claude Opus found one funder behind 38% of supply and nine "independent buyers" that were actually one person.
Jev and Claude Opus found why copy trading loses money for most people who try it, before a single entry was placed. They were never asked to find a new token. They were asked why "follow the smart wallets" still ends with following one guy and his nine burner wallets. TRACE - every holder's first SOL followed back to whoever sent it CLUSTER - wallets that share a funder pulled into one bubble SCORE - every wallet that is left graded on win rate and hold time FILTER - any cluster holding real supply marked as a bundle and dropped FOLLOW - only the clean wallets get copied, and every exit gets booked A bubble map is not 48 holders. It is a few people wearing 48 wallets, and who funded them decides everything. The wallets are not independent. Nine of them got their first SOL from the same Binance hot wallet within four minutes of each other. Nine wallets that look like nine buyers turn out to be one seller. Copy them and you walk into the dump with the whole bundle on the other side of your trade. The scan found one funder sitting behind 38% of the supply, and three wallets with no link to anyone that kept winning. None of this is a signal to buy. It is a ranked map of which wallets are real and which are one person, out of a chain nobody can check wallet by wallet. Copy trading normally learns this the hard way, one dump at a time. This reads the funding before the first buy. Every cluster and the full PnL curve, filtered vs naive, are broken down underneath ↓
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