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🫧 Bubble maps & clusters
A holder list tells you how many wallets. A bubble map tells you how many people.
Why a holder count lies
A token showing 400 holders sounds distributed. If 60 of those wallets were funded by the same address an hour before launch, it is not 400 people — it is one person and a script. A flat holder list cannot show you that. A bubble map can.
Reading the map
- Bubble size — how much that wallet holds.
- Lines between bubbles — those wallets have moved funds between each other.
- A tight cluster — wallets acting as one. Treat the cluster's total as a single holder, because that is what it is.
- Isolated bubbles — genuinely independent holders. What you want to see.
⚠️ Important
A cluster holding 30% is a 30% holder, however many wallets it is split across. Splitting a bag across fifty addresses is the oldest way to make a top-10 number look acceptable.
The related tools
🫧 Bubble mapThe visual, straight off the scan card./clusterWallets that move together on a token./whalemapWhere the size is concentrated./holdersThe plain holder breakdown when that is all you need./bundleLaunch bundling — supply taken in a single block.💡 Tip
Run the bubble map before sizing up, not before entering. On a small entry the distribution rarely decides anything; on a large one it decides everything.