# Is it Solana meme coin season? How to tell on ripr > Solana meme coin season is a breadth signal, not a price. Read it yourself on ripr with Trending, New, Narratives and the Explore screener. - URL: https://ripr.trade/blog/is-it-solana-meme-coin-season - Publisher: ripr (https://ripr.trade) - Author: ripr Editorial Team - Published: 2026-11-04 - Category: Guides No bell rings for meme coin season. On ripr you can still answer the question for yourself in about five minutes: open Trending, open New, see what the Narratives list is calling Hot, then test what you saw in the screener. Four screens, one decision. Here is how to read each of them, and what a hot market looks like next to a quiet one. ## What "meme coin season" means in practice Season is not a price level. It is a condition of breadth and attention: lots of coins moving at the same time, new launches finding real buyers in their first minutes, unfamiliar tickers at the top of every list, money rotating from one theme to the next inside a week. Out of season the shape is different. A handful of larger coins carry most of the volume, and the coins launched this morning are already silent. The convenient part is that every figure you need for the call sits in one app. ripr's prices, charts and trades come from its own in-house data layer, which decodes Solana transactions itself, and they update live over a streaming connection rather than waiting for you to refresh. So a coin's price and chart move while you are reading them. One thing follows from how the chain works. Because launching a coin on [Solana](https://solana.com/) costs so little, a hot spell shows up as a flood of new tickers rather than as one coin quietly doubling. Breadth is what you measure, not price. ## Read the turnover in ripr's Trending list ripr's [Trending list](https://ripr.trade/?tab=trending) ranks coins on how fast their trades, volume and distinct buyers are growing, and it lowers coins whose activity looks manipulated. That answers a sharper question than "what is big right now". It answers "what is accelerating". The tell is turnover. In a real season most of the top of Trending is coins you had never heard of yesterday, and the order has changed between two visits on the same afternoon. In a quiet market the same established names sit there for days and the list barely moves, so two checks a few hours apart tell you most of what you need. Keep one habit here. Trending is an activity ranking, not a safety ranking, so open a coin and read the warnings on its page before you buy. Our [guide to spotting a risky meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-spot-a-risky-meme-coin) explains what each warning is pointing at. ## Check how fast new Solana coins are launching ripr's [New tab](https://ripr.trade/?tab=latest) is your launch-rate dial. Coins usually appear there within a few seconds of their first block, so you are looking at the chain rather than at a daily digest. Launch rate on its own is noise, though, because Solana produces new tickers all day in any market. What changes with the season is survival: whether those coins are still trading ten minutes later. So scroll New, pick five coins that are a few minutes old, and check whether anyone is buying them. If four of the five are dead on arrival, it is not season, whatever the mood on social media says. Two other places in ripr sharpen the same reading. Bonding-curve progress updates live as a coin trades toward graduation, which lets you see how many fresh launches are actually climbing rather than stalling near the bottom. And the Coming soon tab lists upcoming launches, so you can see how much new supply is lining up behind today's. ## See which narratives are Hot or Cooling Season is rarely "every meme coin is up". Usually one or two themes drag the rest along, and that is why a theme-level view beats a coin-level one. In ripr's iOS and Android apps, Narratives group coins that share a theme word in their name or ticker, track each group as an index, and label it Hot, Rising or Cooling. Reading those labels takes seconds. Several Hot themes at once is the strongest season signal in the app; a screen full of Cooling labels says the moment has passed. You can also follow a narrative and get a notification when it turns Hot or moves sharply, which beats checking by hand every hour. On the web you can read the same thing by theme. ripr sorts coins into themed categories, memes among them, so the [Memes category](https://ripr.trade/category/memes) tells you whether meme coins specifically are carrying the market or just coming along for the ride. ## Put numbers on it with ripr's screener Feelings about a market are easy to get wrong, so turn the question into a count. [Explore](https://ripr.trade/explore) filters and sorts the Solana market with ranges for market cap, liquidity and age, plus filters for trading venue and launchpad. Here is a test you can repeat. Filter to coins created in the last 24 hours, set a liquidity floor you would genuinely trade against, and note how many coins clear it. Write the number down. Do it again tomorrow, and the day after. Season is that number climbing for a week, not one good afternoon. Two details keep the counts clean. Sorting by market cap applies a floor of $5,000 liquidity and 100 holders unless you set your own limits, which keeps long-dead coins out of the top of the list. And ripr's web charts carry a volume mode alongside price and market cap, across eight timeframes from one second to one day, so the daily volume view shows you whether interest in a coin is building or draining away. For a sense of scale, open a meme coin that has been trading for years. ripr shows tens of thousands of holders on one of those, and a couple of thousand separate wallets trading it over a single day. A coin minted this morning shows a tiny fraction of both, and in a real season that gap closes quickly for a handful of them. Those are the coins the lists start filling with. ## Trading a meme coin season without getting burned A hot market makes poor decisions feel reasonable, so set your rules before you open the buy sheet. 1. Size it so a total loss is boring. Most new coins go to zero whether or not it is season. 2. Check the contract address, not the name. The contract address is a coin's unique ID on Solana, and you can paste the full address into ripr's search to confirm you are on the coin you meant rather than a copycat using the same ticker. 3. Read the warnings. ripr flags known rug patterns before you buy, 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. In Explore you can switch on Hide warnings to keep flagged coins out of the list while you browse. 4. Look at who holds it. Each coin page shows how much of the supply the top 10 and top 50 holders and the creator hold, which tells you how much of the float a single wallet could sell into you. 5. Keep some SOL spare for network fees. Selling costs a network fee too, not just buying. Then judge the season by your own results rather than by the noise. ripr's iOS and Android apps show your realized and open profit and loss over the last 7 or 30 days, which is the honest version of the question: if the market is hot and your P&L is not, the plan needs work, not the calendar. So check the four screens, write your screener count down, and look again tomorrow. If you want to run the check inside the app, signing up on ripr creates a Solana wallet for your account, so there is no separate wallet app to install first, and the help centre has a short [walkthrough of buying a coin](https://ripr.trade/support/how-do-i-buy-a-coin) for when your count finally says yes. --- *Last verified 2 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.*