How Smart Money Signals works

A real-time alpha feed built on the Birdeye Data API. We watch a curated set of high-PnL Solana wallets and emit a signal when multiple of them independently buy the same token in a short window.

1. Wallet universe

We seed ~200 known smart-money wallets (top traders, profitable memecoin snipers, public Birdeye/Cielo leaderboard wallets). Every 3 minutes a cron re-pulls each wallet's recent trades from Birdeye and recomputes 30-day realized PnL using average-cost basis. Wallets are then re-ranked.

2. Signal detection

Every 5 minutes we scan recent buys across all tracked wallets. When ≥2 wallets buy the same token within 60 minutes, the token becomes a signal candidate. Each candidate gets a score from 0–100:

buyer_weight   = Σ 1 / sqrt(rank)        (rewards top-ranked buyers)
volume_weight  = log10(1 + USD volume) / 5
recency_weight = 1 / (1 + minutes / 30)
score          = 25·buyer + 25·volume + 50·recency  (clamped 0–100)

Signals scoring ≥30 are persisted; ≥70 are cross-posted to X (gated by free-tier limits).

3. Enrichment

Each signal is enriched with token metadata from Birdeye: price, liquidity, market cap, 24h volume, top-10 holder concentration. We refresh prices every 15 minutes so the dashboard shows live % since signal receipts.

4. Distribution

Signals are pushed to:

Telegram bot — DM /start to subscribe, every signal arrives instantly
Telegram channel — live signal feed, chat, share alpha
Discord — connect your server webhook with /discord in the bot
X/Twitter — score ≥75 only (free-tier rate-limited to 5/day)
This dashboard — public read, ranked feed with live SSE updates
Embeddable widget — drop /embed/feed in any iframe

🦅 Sprint 3 Build — Token Holder Chart API

24-hour turnaround · two-sided alpha

May 7 — Birdeye releases the Token Holder Chart API
May 8 — we ship three new signal types built on top of it:
🦅 Stealth Accumulation— fires when holders grow ≥3% in minutes while price stays flat. The pattern price charts can't show. First fire: $HATCHER #223.
🩸 Holder Bleed — the inverse pattern. Fires when holders distribute ≥3% while price still holds — the early rug-warning that price charts confirm too late. Same data feed, opposite use case. Two-sided alpha from one API.
🎓 Pump.fun → Raydium Graduation — detects when a fresh pump.fun mint we just discovered crosses the bonding-curve threshold and unlocks DEX trading.
HolderChart on every signal page — multi-source line chart of holder count over time.

Smart Money Signals is a Birdeye-native product. We use the Token Holder Chart API as the foundation for stealth detection plus 11 other Birdeye endpoints for wallet discovery, signal detection, enrichment, risk scoring, and live tracking.

🦅 Sprint 3 — Token Holder Chart

/defi/token_overview holder field — live holder count, the foundation of stealth detection. Compared against historical snapshots to surface tokens where holders are accumulating quietly while price stays flat.

Wallet discovery

/trader/gainers-losers — pulls top-PnL wallets across today/yesterday/1W/1M (4 windows × 200 pages = up to 8,000 candidates)

Trade ingestion

/trader/txs/seek_by_time — wallet trade history (Birdeye fallback when Helius is exhausted)
/v1/wallet/token_list — wallet portfolio / live holdings on /wallet/[address] pages

Token data & pricing

/defi/token_overview — symbol, name, price, liquidity, market cap, 24h volume (every signal enriched)
/defi/price — single-token live price
/defi/multi_price — batch price refresh for live PnL tracking
/defi/ohlcv — price candles for signal performance chart

Risk & security

/defi/v3/token/holder — top-10 holder concentration (rug detection: blocks signals when top10 > 60%)
/defi/token_security — mint authority, freeze authority, transfer fee checks
/defi/v2/markets — DEX market depth and liquidity sources

Discovery & trending

/defi/token_trending — Birdeye trending list, used for hybrid signal type
/defi/v3/token/trade — cross-wallet activity rotation feature
/defi/v3/token/new_listing — new-token discovery for /tokens/new feed

Polling is split across Helius (1M credits/mo) for high-frequency wallet history and Birdeye for everything else. This keeps Birdeye CU usage focused on the high-value enrichment calls that power the core product.

Open source

Full source is on GitHub. Built for the Birdeye Build-in-Public Sprint 3.

Not financial advice. Smart-money behavior is a heuristic, not a guarantee — wallets get rugged, tokens get dumped. Always do your own research.