Advanced Holder Statistics - PnL, Retention, and Wallet Analysis

Knowing who holds a token is a starting point. HolderScan goes deeper by tracking how long holders have been in, whether they are profitable, and how their holdings break down over time. These advanced statistics are available on the token page under the Top Holders and Wallet Stats tabs.

Note: Advanced holder statistics are available for verified tokens. Token projects can apply for verification through the Token Verification page.

Top Holders Table

The Top Holders table shows the largest holders ranked by percentage of supply. Beyond the basics (rank, address, percentage, quantity, USD value), each row includes three additional columns: Average Time Held, Holder Category, and PnL.

Top holders with Avg. Time Held, Holder Category, and PnL columns

Average Time Held shows the weighted average holding duration per token unit in the wallet, calculated using FIFO. Holder Category is assigned based on how long ago the wallet last sold (or first bought, if never sold). The PnL columns split into Unrealized PnL (paper profit or loss on tokens still held) and Realized PnL (profit or loss from tokens already sold).

Holder Categories

Every wallet that holds a token is assigned a category based on how long it has been since their last sale. For wallets that have never sold, the category is based on how long ago their first purchase was. The categories are:

• Diamond - more than 90 days since last sale (or first buy if never sold)
• Gold - more than 60 days since last sale (or first buy)
• Silver - more than 30 days since last sale (or first buy)
• Bronze - more than 15 days since last sale (or first buy)
• Wood - less than 15 days since last sale
• New Holder - first purchase less than 15 days ago, no sales yet

These categories give you a quick read on the conviction level of the holder base. A token where most top holders are Diamond or Gold has a stable core group that is not selling. A token dominated by Wood and New Holders has a lot of recent turnover, which can signal either early-stage growth or speculative churn.

PnL Statistics

The PnL Statistics panel summarizes profitability across groups of top holders. You can filter by group: Top 10, Top 25, Top 50, Top 100, Top 250, Top 500, or Top 1000.

PnL Statistics for the Top 10 holders

The panel includes five metrics. All PnL calculations use FIFO cost basis - the oldest tokens purchased are matched against sales first:

• Break Even Price - the average price at which holders would break even based on their FIFO cost basis
• Realized PnL Average - average profit or loss that holders have taken by selling
• Realized PnL Total - cumulative profit or loss from all sales by the group
• Unrealized PnL Average - average paper profit or loss based on current price vs cost basis
• Unrealized PnL Total - total paper profit or loss for the group

In the example above, the Top 10 holders have a combined unrealized PnL of $1.73M and have already realized $219K. The break even price tells you at what price these holders would be flat on their investment. If the current price is well above break even, top holders are sitting on significant gains, which could mean future sell pressure or strong conviction depending on the holder categories.

Average Time Held

This panel shows how long tokens have been held on average across different groups of top holders. The calculation works at the individual token unit level using FIFO: each unit of the token is tracked from when it was bought to when it was sold (or to now, if still held), and the result is a weighted average across all units. This means a wallet that bought 100 tokens 30 days ago and another 100 tokens 10 days ago would show an average time held of 20 days.

Average holding duration by top holder group

In this example, the Top 10 holders have held for an average of 31.92 days. The Top 100 average is similar at 31.32 days, but it drops to 17.64 days for the Top 1000. This pattern tells you that the largest holders have been in longer, while holders further down the ranking are newer. A large gap between top holder duration and broader holder duration suggests the token has a stable core with a rotating set of smaller holders around it.

Average Retention

Retention measures the ratio of a holder's average time held to the token's total lifespan. A retention of 100% means the holder has been in since the token launched and has not sold. A retention of 30% means the holder's average holding duration covers about a third of the token's existence - either because they bought later or because they have sold and re-bought along the way.

Average retention percentage by top holder group

Here, the Top 25 holders have 38.94% average retention, while the Top 1000 average is 28.74%. Lower retention across larger groups means holders further down the ranking have shorter holding durations relative to the token's age. If top holder retention is high but broader retention is low, the biggest holders have been in the longest while smaller holders are more recent entrants.

Wallet Stats

The Wallet Stats tab provides an aggregate view of the holder base by category. It has two panels: Top Wallet Categories and Top Wallet Supply Breakdown. You can filter by group size (Top 250, Top 500, or Top 1000).

Wallet Stats for Top 250 holders

Top Wallet Categories shows how many wallets fall into each holder category. In this example, 178 of the top 250 wallets (71.49%) are Diamond holders - meaning they have not sold in over 90 days. Only 21 wallets (8.43%) are Wood holders. This heavily Diamond-weighted distribution indicates a very stable holder base among the top wallets.

Top Wallet Supply Breakdown shows how much of the token supply is held on a first-in, first-out (FIFO) basis across time buckets matching the holder categories. The Diamond bucket holds 458.68M tokens (80.29% of supply held by the top 250). This tells you not just how many wallets are long-term holders, but how much supply they represent.

Individual Wallet Analysis

Clicking on any holder in the Top Holders table opens a detailed wallet view with per-wallet statistics.

Detailed stats for a single wallet

The left panel shows the wallet's holding stats for this token: quantity, USD value, first purchase date, last sold date, average time held, percentage of supply, holder category, and the count of balance changes (in and out). The right panel shows the Wallet Holding Breakdown - how much of this wallet's position falls into each holding duration category (Diamond through Wood) on a FIFO basis.

Below that, the Realized PnL and Unrealized PnL are shown separately. And the Balance Changes section lists each individual transaction with the date, amount, and resulting balance. This gives you a complete transaction history for any wallet's position in a specific token.

Putting It Together

These advanced statistics work best when combined. A token where the Top 10 holders are mostly Diamond, have high retention, and are sitting on large unrealized gains is a different picture from one where top holders are Wood, have low retention, and have already realized most of their profits. The first looks like strong conviction; the second looks like exit mode.

You can explore these statistics for any token on holderscan.com. For more on distribution metrics, see Distribution Statistics. For graph-based analysis, see Advanced Graph Features.