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What Is Sniping?

Sniping is using bots to buy a token in the first moments of its launch, sometimes the same block, to acquire the cheapest possible supply before humans can react. The snipers' business model is simple: be everyone else's entry price.

How It Actually Works

Bots monitor DEXs and launchpads for pool creation and curve deployments around the clock.
The instant a target appears, they fire pre-built transactions with aggressive fees to land first. On fast chains like Solana this is a sub-second race between machines.
Snipers then sell into the wave of human buying that social media delivers minutes later. The profit is the gap between block-one prices and hype prices.

What It Means for Regular People

By the time a launch is visible to you, the cheap supply is gone. You are the demand snipers planned to sell into.
Early holder charts on screeners tell the story: a few wallets holding large shares minutes after launch is sniper concentration, and their exits are your drawdowns.
Some launches are sniped by their own creators through bundled buys, which is the same trick with insider certainty added.

Risks and Common Mistakes

Racing bots manually. You will not win a millisecond contest with a phone.
Renting sniper bots as a retail user: expect scams, malware, and losses wearing a power-user costume.
Reading a vertical first candle as organic demand instead of machines pre-positioning.

When It Matters

Evaluating any fresh token. Check holder distribution and early buys before believing a chart; the routine lives on my Memecoins page and runs on the tools in my DexScreener review.