DEX token screener for new Solana meme coins, step by step on ripr

By ripr Editorial Team12 Nov 20267 min read

On ripr, screening new DEX tokens happens on one screen: you open Explore, bound the age, put floors under liquidity and holders, pick a sort, and read what comes through. Most people hunting for the best crypto screener for new DEX tokens want that, plus the risk checks and the buy in the same place. That is how the screener is laid out, so this post builds the screen there, filter by filter.

What makes the best crypto screener for new DEX tokens?

A screener for new DEX tokens earns its place when it does four things: covers the venues new coins actually trade on, filters on size and activity instead of noise, shows what its own checks found on a coin, and lets you act on a hit without moving to another app.

A DEX token is a coin that trades out of a liquidity pool on a decentralised exchange rather than on a company's order book. New ones arrive all day. The useful question is never "what launched" but "what launched and is being traded by more than its creator".

ripr's screener covers the first three in Explore: it filters Solana coins by the venue they trade on and by the launchpad they came from, with range filters for market cap, liquidity and age. The fourth one is the quiet reason to screen inside a trading app. Because your ripr account comes with a Solana wallet that signs the trade, a coin at the top of your sort is a tap or two from a buy, not a tab you have to go and find.

Where ripr's screener for new tokens lives

On ripr, the screener is the filter panel inside Explore, which lists trending coins, newly launched coins and upcoming launches, and keeps your watchlists, on web, iOS and Android. The tabs are shortcuts to the screens people run most. The panel is where you build your own.

Three other ways in are worth knowing. The search box takes a coin's name, its ticker or a full contract address, which is the coin's unique on-chain ID, so a mint somebody sends you opens straight onto its coin page. Categories cut the market by theme, including memes, DeFi, gaming, AI and stablecoins. And a watchlist is where a new coin goes when it is interesting but not yet worth a buy.

How to set up a new DEX token screen on ripr

On ripr, a screen for new DEX tokens is a few range filters plus one sort. The screener carries 8 range filters and 12 sorts in all, and the web app gives you the widest set of them to work with.

Open the filters in Explore. Age, Liquidity, Volume 24h, Holders, Txns 24h, Buys 24h and Sells 24h each take a range, so every one can be a floor, a ceiling or both.
Bound the age. This is the filter that turns a screener into a new-token screen. Set it to a window you can actually sit and watch.
Put a floor under liquidity. Liquidity is the money in the pool you trade against, and it decides how far your own buy moves the price.
Put a floor under holders and trades. A coin with two holders and three trades is not a market yet, whatever its price chart suggests.
Sort, then re-sort. New gives you raw order of arrival. Volume 24h and Txns 24h tell you which of those new coins anybody is touching.

One pair of numbers is worth borrowing from the app itself. Sort by market cap with the bounds left empty and ripr keeps out coins under $5,000 of liquidity or 100 holders, unless you set those limits yourself.

Filter	What it tells you	Where to start
Age	How long the coin has existed	A window you can watch live
Liquidity ($)	How much money backs the price	$5,000, the floor the market-cap sort uses
Holders	How many wallets hold it	100, the other floor that sort uses
Txns, Buys and Sells 24h	Whether anyone is really trading	A floor that skips empty coins

Table 1. A starting screen for new DEX tokens

Treat those as opening values rather than answers. Tighten the floors when the screen hands back more coins than you can read, and widen the age window when it hands back none.

Read the coin page before you buy

ripr's coin page is where a screener hit turns into a decision, and it is the step people skip when a chart is moving. Before you buy, ripr shows warnings for known rug patterns, such as a creator holding unlocked liquidity, liquidity that has already been pulled, or a coordinated launch, and it says plainly that not seeing a warning never means a coin is safe. Newly created coins get checked for the same patterns: linked wallets, bundles at creation, a creator sitting on supply.

Age by itself proves very little. One coin about four minutes old already carried nearly 2,000 holders and about $13,000 of liquidity, with its ten largest wallets on roughly a tenth of the supply held in wallets. It read like a market. ripr's market data flagged a bundled launch on that coin: a cluster of wallets buying in the same breath as the coin was created.

So read four things on every coin your screen surfaces:

The warnings. Switching on Hide warnings in Explore drops flagged coins out of your lists; it stays off until you turn it on.
The supply shares. The coin page shows how much of a coin the top 10 and top 50 holders and the creator hold, with pools and vaults left out.
Bonding-curve progress. A bonding curve is a launch mechanism where each buy pushes the price along a fixed formula until the coin graduates to a pool, and the coin page shows that progress updating live. The help centre explains it in what a bonding curve is in simple terms.
The creator. ripr lists the other coins a creator has launched, so you can read their history yourself.

ripr's iOS and Android coin pages also tell you when a coin is under review, has low liquidity, has paused prices or is still being checked. The last call stays yours. For the pattern-reading side of this, how to spot a risky meme coin and the help-centre guide on trading more safely both go deeper, and you can read the mint itself on Solana's block explorer.

Buying a new DEX token on ripr

On ripr you buy from the screen you screened on. On desktop web, the chart carries a buy button that trades in one click at a pre-filled amount: your last buy size, or $10 the first time. On iOS, the quick-trade bar on a coin's page buys at your usual size in one tap.

Two settings matter on a coin this young. Slippage is how far the price may move between your tap and your fill, and ripr's Auto slippage sets that limit from the coin's last five minutes of movement, between 3% and 15%, unless you set it yourself. Then, before your wallet signs, the app checks the prepared transaction on your device against the amount, slippage and fee limits you chose and refuses it if anything has changed. The coin's warnings are repeated inside the buy flow too.

Keep some SOL in your ripr wallet for network fees, and start small on anything minutes old. Prices on new coins move fast, which the help centre covers in why prices move so quickly on new coins and how to buy a coin. For timing rather than mechanics, when to buy a meme coin is the companion post.

Frequently asked questions

What is a DEX token screener?

A DEX token screener is a tool that filters the coins trading on decentralised exchanges down to the ones matching your rules, such as age, liquidity, holders, volume and trade counts. On ripr, that tool is the filter panel in Explore, and it screens Solana coins across the venues and launchpads the app covers.

Can I screen new Solana tokens on my phone?

Yes. ripr's Explore screener runs on web, iOS and Android, so your filters, sorts and watchlists are on your phone as well as your desktop. The screener holds 8 range filters and 12 sorts, with the widest set of them on the web app.

How do I filter out risky new coins on ripr?

Turn on the Hide warnings filter in ripr's Explore and flagged coins drop out of your lists. Then read the warnings, the supply shares and the creator's other coins on each coin page you open. The app never labels a coin safe, so the final judgement is always yours.

Is a brand-new DEX token worth buying?

That is your call, and nothing here is advice. What ripr gives you to decide on is the coin's liquidity, its holder count, how concentrated its supply is, its bonding-curve progress, its creator's other coins and any rug-pattern warning, all on one page before you buy.

Start with one new-token screen and keep it

The screen that works is the one you run every day, not the cleverest combination of filters. Build it once in ripr's Explore: an age window, a liquidity floor, a holder floor, a sort you trust. Then let the coin page and the warnings do the second pass. Open Explore and set those first three filters now.

Last verified 3 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.