A bundle is a set of buys made through many separate wallets at once, usually by a token's creator or people working with them, in the first moments of trading. A launch with heavy bundling is called a bundled launch, and the tools that automate it are called bundlers. The buys are often packed into the same block or the same few seconds. The token then looks as if it has many independent holders, when a single group actually controls the supply.
Why it matters
Bundles hide concentration. A holder list might show forty wallets each holding 1%, which looks healthy. If all forty were funded from one source and bought in the same block, one group controls 40% of the supply and can sell it into later buyers. In a study of pump.fun launches, bundled accounts made up 28% of holders and controlled 36.5% of supply.
How to spot one
- Several buys in the first block or seconds, often with near-identical amounts.
- Fresh wallets with no history before this token.
- A shared funding source, with many wallets topped up from the same address just before launch.
- Holdings that move together. When one sells, the others sell too.
How Amplified handles it
Token Check merges wallets that fund, buy and sell together into a single holder group. The holder bar shows one segment for the group rather than forty small ones.
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