Holder retention, from mainnet data

Who stuck around?

Paste a token mint. Stickhold groups buyers by when they bought and shows what share still hold after 1, 7 and 30 days, like an app-retention chart for a coin.

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In plain words

Holder count tells you how many. Retention tells you who stayed.

A coin can show 5,000 holders and still be emptying out. Bots buy in the first seconds and sell a minute later. Airdrops and dust inflate the count. Stickhold ignores all of that and asks one simple question: of the people who actually bought, how many still hold?

Real buyers only

Only wallets that swapped into the coin count. Pools, bonding curves, program accounts and burn addresses are taken out, so the numbers are about people's wallets, not plumbing.

Grouped by when they bought

Buyers from the same hour or day form a group (a "cohort"). You see whether early buyers left while later buyers stayed, or the other way round.

Followed over time

For every group: what share still held 1 day later, 7 days later and 30 days later. The same chart apps use to see whether users come back.

Reading the grid

Green stays. Clay leaves.

Bought1 day7 days30 days

Day 172%58%41%

Day 269%44%30%

Day 331%9%–

Example numbers, not a real coin.

Each row is a group of buyers, by the hour or day they bought.
Each column is time since they bought. Read a row left to right to watch that group thin out.
Colour is the share still holding. Bright green means most stayed; dark clay means almost everyone sold.
In the example, the first two days held well, but Day 3 buyers left fast. That is often a hype spike: a call or a pump brought in short-term traders.
Empty cells mean not enough time has passed yet (a Day 3 buyer can't have a 30-day number until 30 days later).

Sticky community

Rows stay green across all three columns. People who buy tend to keep holding.

Flip machine

Every row is clay by day 1. Buyers are in and out within hours, often bots or snipers.

Fading interest

Early rows hold, recent rows don't. The first believers stayed, new buyers are not convinced.

Who uses it

Before you buy

Check whether people who bought last week are still in, or whether you would be buying from a crowd heading for the exit.

Teams & devs

See whether your community actually stays after a launch, a listing or a campaign. Better than staring at the holder count.

Callers & groups

Show your audience that the buyers you brought in held. Or find out they didn't before your audience does.

Researchers

Compare coins on one honest number, from public mainnet data, with the method written down below.

Read-only. No wallet, no keys, no sign-up.

Stickhold only reads public Solana data. It never asks you to connect a wallet, sign anything, or share a seed phrase or private key. If anyone claiming to be Stickhold asks for those, it is a scam.

How Stickhold measures

1. Cohorts. Coins younger than 3 days are split into hourly cohorts, older ones into daily UTC cohorts (last 40 days at most). In each period we read up to 200 of the mint's transactions, spread across the period, and pick wallets that signed a swap taking their token balance from zero to positive.

2. Follow. Each sampled buyer's token account is followed to now: its current balance, and its own transaction history when the balance has changed. A wallet "holds" while its balance is above 0.1% of its first buy.

3. Score. A cell is the share of that cohort still holding the given time after buying. Pools, bonding curves, program-owned accounts and burn addresses are excluded everywhere. Results are cached and refreshed incrementally.

What this cannot tell you

Wallets are not people. One person can run many wallets; one wallet can be a bot or an exchange.
Moving tokens counts as selling. A holder who moves tokens to a new wallet looks like an exit here.
It is a sample. Busy coins have thousands of buyers a day; each cohort is a sample of up to 24 (daily) or 16 (hourly) buyers, so small cohorts swing a lot.
Retention is not a price prediction. Sticky holders can still watch a price fall, and a coin with poor retention can still rise.
Nothing here is financial advice. Stickhold is not affiliated with any launchpad, exchange or token.

FAQ

Is it free?

Yes. Paste a mint and measure. No account, no limits on looking.

Which coins work?

Any Solana token with swap history: pump.fun bonding-curve coins, PumpSwap, Raydium, Meteora, Orca and other pools, SPL Token and Token-2022.

Why does a brand-new coin show hours instead of days?

Coins younger than 3 days are split into hourly groups so you can see something useful right away. Older coins use daily groups, up to the last 40 days.

Why does the first measurement take a moment?

Stickhold reads the coin's transactions and then follows each sampled buyer's wallet on mainnet. Results are saved, so the next visit loads fast and only new activity is added.

Can a team fake good retention?

Partly. A team that buys from many wallets and never sells would look like loyal holders. That is why Stickhold samples buyers across the whole period and why you should read it together with other signals, such as who holds the most supply.

I moved my tokens to another wallet. Am I counted as a seller?

Yes. Stickhold follows the wallet that bought, so a transfer out looks like an exit. See the limits below.

Does good retention mean the price will go up?

No. It shows how buyers behave, not where the price goes. It is a research tool, not financial advice.