Paste any Solana coin. The lantern checks the dev before you buy, not after.
Your cursor is Diogenes' lantern. Hold it over anyone: nobody in this market has been checked.
Drop any Solana contract into the app. No wallet, no sign-up, no fee: the lantern reads the chain the way anyone could, it just does it in a second instead of an evening. You get the answer before your thumb reaches the buy button.
It finds the wallet that created the coin, counts how many coins that wallet has launched before and reads what it still holds. Then it asks the mint account whether anyone can still print more or freeze your tokens. Every line links to the account it was read from.
Devs like to look small by parking their bag in fresh wallets. The chain keeps a receipt for every transfer, so the lantern walks the dev's token account and adds back whatever still sits on the other side. Five wallets, one dev.
A dev with 12% looks greedy, so they split the bag. Each press moves 4% into a brand-new wallet, and the chart starts to look clean. The transfer that paid for it stays on the chain forever.
The dev's wallet holds 12% in plain sight. Anyone can read it.
Every dot is a holder. Threads are transfers out of the dev's token account. Numbers are rounded for reading; the real check reads the last 20 moves of that account.
Around 350 BC Diogenes of Sinope walked through the market in daylight holding a lit lantern. Asked why, he said he was looking for a man. Twenty-three centuries later the market is on Solana and everybody in it is called the dev.
Jordaens painted the scene in 1642: farmers, soldiers and merchants laughing at the old man with the lamp. diodegenes keeps the lamp and changes the method. Instead of staring at faces it reads the mint account, the creator wallet and every transfer out of it.
| Diogenes | diodegenes | |
|---|---|---|
| Where he looked | The market in Athens | Any coin on Solana, by contract address |
| The light | An oil lantern, at noon | A public Solana node and a token API, read from your own browser |
| Time per person | The whole day | About a second |
| What he found | Nobody, by his own account | A verdict with every line linked to the chain |
Sources: Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, VI.41, and the data sources page in the docs.
The first coin we check is ours. Same code as the app, no special treatment. These numbers are read from Solana as you look.