# How to filter Solana coins by market cap, liquidity and volume on ripr

> Find Solana coins under $1m market cap with real liquidity and volume: set three range filters in ripr's Explore screener and read what comes back.

- URL: https://ripr.trade/blog/filter-solana-coins-by-market-cap-liquidity-volume
- Publisher: ripr (https://ripr.trade)
- Author: ripr Editorial Team
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Category: Guides

On ripr, you find Solana coins under $1m market cap with good liquidity and volume by setting three range filters on one screen: a ceiling on market cap, a floor under liquidity and a floor under 24-hour volume. Explore's filter panel takes all three at once, so the list that comes back is already the shape you asked for. The skill is in reading those three numbers together afterwards.

## Where the market cap, liquidity and volume filters live on ripr

On ripr, all three filters sit in the filter panel inside [Explore](https://ripr.trade/explore), the screen that lists trending coins, newly launched coins and upcoming launches and keeps your watchlists, on web, iOS and Android. The panel filters Solana coins by the venue they trade on and the launchpad they came from, with range filters for market cap, liquidity, volume and age. On ripr web the three this screen needs — market cap, liquidity and 24-hour volume — sit in that one panel, so you set them in a single pass.

Each range filter takes a minimum, a maximum or both. That is what makes a multi-metric screen possible: one ceiling and two floors applied together, rather than one after another in your head.

Those figures come from ripr's in-house data and execution layer, which decodes Solana transactions itself, and they arrive over a streaming connection rather than a page refresh. A screen you leave open keeps re-ordering itself as the market moves.

## How do I find Solana coins under $1m market cap with good liquidity and volume?

On ripr, finding Solana coins under $1m market cap with good liquidity and volume takes three filters and a sort, set in this order:

1. **Cap the size.** Set the market-cap range to a maximum of 1,000,000 and leave the minimum empty. Market cap is a coin's current price multiplied by its total supply, so it is a size label, not money anyone has put in.
2. **Put a floor under liquidity.** Liquidity is the money in the coin's pool that your buy comes out of and your sell goes into, and it decides how far your own order moves the price. Around $20,000 is a workable opening floor at this size.
3. **Put a floor under 24-hour volume.** Volume over 24 hours is the dollar value of everything traded in the coin that day, which answers a different question from liquidity: whether anybody is actually trading it. Start near $50,000.
4. **Sort what is left.** Pick the Volume sort and the busiest coins in your band come to the top; Holders shows which of them are held most widely. Run both.

One pair of numbers is worth borrowing from the app itself. Sort by market cap with the bounds left empty and the screener keeps out coins under $5,000 of liquidity or fewer than 100 holders unless you set those limits yourself. They make sensible opening floors for a screen of your own.

| Filter | What it answers | Where to start |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Market cap | How the market prices the whole supply | Max 1,000,000 |
| Liquidity | How much money backs the price | Min 20,000 |
| 24-hour volume | Whether anyone is trading it | Min 50,000 |
| Holders | How many wallets hold it | Min 100 |

*Table 1. A starting screen for Solana coins under $1m market cap*

Those are opening values, not answers: tighten the floors when the screen returns more coins than you can read, and lift the ceiling when it returns none. [The meme coin market cap strategy post](https://ripr.trade/blog/meme-coin-market-cap-strategy) covers the size bands themselves.

## What counts as good liquidity and volume under $1m market cap

Good liquidity and volume under $1m market cap are relative to the coin's size rather than fixed dollar amounts, which is why ripr's screener lets you set the floors yourself. A $40,000 pool is deep for a $200,000 coin and thin for a $900,000 one. Volume works the same way: $100,000 traded in a day is busy at the bottom of this band and quiet at the top.

Two coins from this band in ripr's market data show how different two passes of the same screen can look. Both had roughly $80,000 of pooled liquidity. One, priced at about $640,000 across its supply, had taken close to $3.1m of volume in its first day of trading — around forty times its pool, from a few thousand holders. The other, priced at about $530,000, had traded about $70,000 over 24 hours, less than one turn of the same depth.

Same band, same depth, two different markets. In the first there is somebody on the other side of your order. In the second you are usually the only one there, and whatever you buy you will have to sell back into that quiet.

Volume far above the pool cuts the other way too. It can be real interest, and it can be a small group of wallets passing the same coins between themselves, which is why the holder floor and the coin's own warnings still matter.

## Sort the screen and keep what it finds

On ripr, the sort decides which end of your filtered list you actually read. Two of Explore's sorts pair naturally with this screen: Volume for activity and Holders for how widely a coin is held. Set your own liquidity and holder bounds and they replace the screener's $5,000 and 100-holder defaults, so sorting by Market Cap inside your band gives you a clean size ladder of coins that already cleared liquidity and volume.

Then keep the ones worth keeping. Explore holds watchlists on web, iOS and Android, which is where a coin goes when it clears the screen but you are not ready to buy. ripr's search takes a name, a ticker or a full contract address, so anything you noted reopens in one paste.

On ripr web, a coin's chart switches from price to market-cap or volume mode across eight timeframes, which shows whether the volume that got a coin through your filter is normal for it or a single spike.

## Check what the filter hands you before you buy

A coin that clears all three filters is a candidate, not a verdict, and the second pass happens on ripr's coin page. Before you buy, ripr shows warnings for known rug patterns — a creator holding unlocked liquidity, liquidity that has already been pulled, a coordinated launch — and says plainly that not seeing a warning never means a coin is safe.

Four things are worth reading on every coin your screen surfaces:

- **The warnings.** Turning on Hide warnings in Explore drops flagged coins out of your lists; it stays off until you switch it on.
- **The supply shares.** ripr shows how much of a coin the top 10 and top 50 holders and the creator hold, with pools and vaults left out. A deep pool matters less when ten wallets can empty it.
- **The pool against your order size.** The help centre explains how [your buy size and sell size affect the price](https://ripr.trade/support/how-do-my-buy-size-and-sell-size-affect-price) you get.
- **The flags.** The iOS and Android coin pages tell you when a coin is under review, has low liquidity, has paused prices or is still being checked.

Start small on anything in this band, keep some SOL in your ripr wallet for network fees, and paste the contract address yourself rather than trusting a link in a DM. [How to spot a risky meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-spot-a-risky-meme-coin) and the help-centre guide to [trading more safely](https://ripr.trade/support/how-can-i-trade-more-safely) go further, and any mint can be read raw on [Solana's block explorer](https://explorer.solana.com/).

## Frequently asked questions

### What is good liquidity for a Solana coin under $1m market cap?

Good liquidity for a coin under $1m market cap reads against the coin's size, not as a fixed figure: a pool worth a tenth of the market cap behaves very differently from one worth a hundredth. On ripr, Explore's liquidity range puts your own floor under it, and a market-cap sort keeps out coins under $5,000 of liquidity by default.

### Does high 24-hour volume make a Solana coin worth buying?

High 24-hour volume shows that trades are happening in a coin, not that they come from many different people or that the price will hold. Read volume next to the pool depth and the holder count, and read the coin's warnings on ripr before you buy. The app never labels a coin safe, so that call stays yours.

### Can I use ripr's coin screener on my phone?

Yes. ripr's Explore screener runs on web, iOS and Android, and your watchlists are in all three. Its range filters cover market cap, liquidity and volume, and on ripr web all three sit in the same panel, which makes it the quickest place to build a screen like this one and then follow the coins it finds on your phone.

### What does market cap mean on a Solana coin?

Market cap is a coin's current price multiplied by its total supply, so it describes how the market prices the whole supply right now. It is not money invested and not money you could take out: a very thin pool can still carry a large market cap, which is why ripr's screener filters liquidity and volume alongside it.

## Build the screen once, then run it

The screen that works is the one you run every day, not the cleverest combination of filters. Three bounds do the job: a market-cap ceiling that sets the band, a liquidity floor that keeps your own order from moving the price, and a volume floor that proves somebody else is trading. Open [Explore](https://ripr.trade/explore) on ripr and set all three, then pick the Volume sort. When a coin clears the screen, [how to buy a Solana meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-buy-a-solana-meme-coin) covers what happens next.

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