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How to filter Solana tokens by age on ripr

How to filter Solana tokens by age on ripr

By ripr Editorial Team7 min read

On ripr you filter Solana tokens by age from the Explore screen: sort the list by Creation Time, then put a ceiling on the age range filter. To find Solana tokens less than one hour old, set that ceiling to one hour. Age sits next to the market cap, liquidity and holder ranges, so you can add a floor in the same place and get a list you can actually read.

What token age means on a Solana screener

A token's age is the time since the coin first appeared on chain — the gap between its creation and right now. On a Solana screener, age is the field that splits the whole market in two: coins minted while you were reading this, and everything else. That is why a screener keeps it as a filter instead of leaving you to check coins one at a time.

Age also behaves differently from every other field. Market cap, volume and holder counts go up and down; age only ever goes up. So a screen for coins under one hour old is a moving window, not a list: come back in ten minutes and much of it has changed, because the coins that aged past your ceiling dropped out and fresh mints took their place.

How to filter Solana tokens by age on ripr

You filter by age on ripr's Explore screener, the screen where you filter and sort Solana coins. Its range filters include age alongside market cap, liquidity and holders.

Two controls do the work, and they do different jobs:

  1. The Creation Time sort orders the list newest first. Use it when you want to watch what is arriving, with no cut-off in mind.
  2. The age range filter sets the window — how old and how new a coin can be and still appear. Use it when you have a specific window, like the last hour.

They work best together. Creation Time with no ceiling gives you the newest coins on Solana, many of them seconds old; adding the ceiling turns that stream into a defined set you can work through.

If all you want is arrivals, you do not need the screener at all. The New tab on ripr's home page lists coins as they launch, and a Coming Soon tab on the same row holds launches that have not opened yet.

How to find Solana tokens less than one hour old on ripr

To find Solana tokens less than one hour old, open Explore, set the top of the age range to one hour (3,600 seconds), and sort what comes back. Four steps:

  1. Set the age ceiling. Leave the lower end of the range alone and put the upper end at one hour. Every coin older than that drops out.
  2. Add one floor. A minimum holder count or a minimum liquidity clears out the mints that have had no real trading. The range filters cover market cap, liquidity and holders as well as age, so the floor goes in beside the ceiling you just set.
  3. Sort what is left. Creation Time keeps the newest at the top; the Volume or Txns sorts put the coins people are actually trading first, which is usually what you want from an hour-wide window.
  4. Shorten it with Hide warnings. Explore has a Hide warnings filter that takes out coins the app has flagged. It is off by default and does not take out coins it has not checked yet, so treat it as a way to shorten the list rather than a vetting step.

Expect the result to be busy. An hour of Solana launches is a lot of coins, so the floor in step 2 is what makes the difference between a list and a wall. If you are screening a theme rather than the whole chain, Explore also groups coins into categories such as memes, DeFi, gaming and AI, and some of those labels are assigned automatically.

What ripr shows you about a coin under an hour old

Once the age screen returns a list, the real work is on ripr's coin pages, because two coins of the same age can be nothing alike. In ripr's market data, one coin about 49 minutes old had roughly two thousand holders and about $25,000 of liquidity, while another a minute short of the hour had about ninety holders, a few hundred dollars of liquidity, and more than nine-tenths of its wallet-held supply in its top ten wallets.

That is the split worth remembering: the age filter picks the window, and the coin page tells you what is in it. On a coin page you can read:

  • Holder concentration — how much of the supply the top 10 and top 50 holders and the creator hold, leaving out pools and vaults.
  • Rug-pattern warnings. ripr checks coins, including newly created ones, for coordinated-launch patterns, linked wallets and creators keeping supply, and shows anything it finds as a warning on the coin. It also says plainly that not seeing a warning never means a coin is safe.
  • Bonding-curve progress, where the coin's launchpad reports it. A bonding curve is the pricing formula a young coin trades on before it reaches an open market, and the progress updates live as the coin trades.
  • The creator's other coins, so you can read their record for yourself.
  • Status flags on the iOS and Android coin pages: under review, low liquidity, paused prices or still being checked.

Charts behave a little differently this early. The app loads the most recent 300 candles for whichever interval you pick and then updates live, so on a coin under an hour old a short interval covers its entire life so far. For the pattern-by-pattern version of this check, read how to spot a risky meme coin.

Trading a coin that's under an hour old on ripr

A coin under an hour old moves fast for a plain reason, and ripr's help centre puts it directly: new coins often have lighter liquidity and high attention, so each trade can shift the price more than expected. Its page on why price moves so quickly on new coins says to use smaller entries first, split larger trades into parts, and confirm the final quote right before you approve it.

Two habits help here. First, check the contract address in full. A contract address is the coin's unique on-chain ID, and ripr's search takes a name, a ticker or a full contract address — so pasting the whole thing confirms you are on the coin you were sent and not a copy with the same name. You can look that address up on Solana's block explorer too. Second, keep a little SOL spare for network fees.

Slippage is the gap between the price you are quoted and the price you get, and it widens on a coin this young. Auto slippage sets your maximum from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, and the help centre covers how to set slippage yourself. The warnings are repeated in the buy flow too, so a flagged coin is flagged again at the moment you buy.

Frequently asked questions

Can I filter Solana tokens by age in the ripr app?

Yes. ripr's Explore screener runs on the web, on iOS and on Android, and age is one of its range filters, alongside market cap, liquidity and holders. On the web you also sort the list by Creation Time; each app shows its own set of those controls.

How do I check a brand-new Solana token's contract address on ripr?

ripr searches any Solana coin by name, ticker or full contract address, so paste the address in full into search and open the coin it returns. A contract address has to be complete to match, which is exactly what makes it a better check than a name or ticker on a coin that is minutes old.

Why do Solana coins under an hour old move so quickly?

New coins often have lighter liquidity and a lot of attention, so each trade can shift the price more than expected — that is how ripr's help centre explains it. Smaller first entries, splitting a larger trade into parts, and confirming the quote right before you approve it are the standard ways to handle it.

Does ripr check newly created coins for rug patterns?

Yes. ripr checks coins, including newly created ones, for coordinated-launch patterns, linked wallets and creators keeping supply, and shows anything it finds as a warning on the coin. It also says plainly that not seeing a warning never means a coin is safe, so read the holder and liquidity detail on the page as well.

Your next step on ripr

Token age is a window, not a verdict. Set the ceiling at one hour, put one floor under it, sort by Creation Time or Volume, and you have a working screen for the newest coins on Solana in about thirty seconds.

Open ripr's Explore screener and build it once; after that it is a few taps to run again. For what to do with the coins it finds, read when to buy a meme coin and how to think about entry timing.


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