Do I need an account to use Solscan?

No. Everything a creator needs is public and free. Accounts exist for saved lists and some API access, and none of that matters for reading your own coin.

What is the difference between a mint address and a token account?

The mint address identifies your coin itself. A token account is one wallet's holding of that coin. One mint, thousands of token accounts, one per holder.

Can I see who is behind a wallet?

No. Addresses are pseudonymous. What you can see is everything that address has ever done, which is often enough to work out how it relates to other addresses.

How to use Solscan as a Pump.fun coin creator

Solscan is the ground truth for anything happening to your coin. Every claim anybody makes about your mint either shows up here or isn't true.

Most creators open it once, feel overwhelmed by the tabs, and go back to looking at a chart. That's a mistake worth fixing in about 20 minutes.

Start with your mint address

Paste your mint address into the search box. Not the ticker, not your wallet, the mint.

The page you land on describes the coin itself: total supply, decimals, the authorities attached to it, and tabs for holders, transfers and metadata. That's your coin's permanent record, and it's the same record any buyer sees.

The four tabs that matter

Transfers. Every transaction touching your mint, newest first. This is where you verify anything. Real activity appears here with signatures, timestamps and addresses. Activity that doesn't appear here didn't happen.

Holders. Who holds what, ranked by size, with percentages. Buyers check this before committing anything meaningful, so you should know what they'll find before they find it.

Metadata. Your name, symbol and image URI as written at mint. Useful when your logo isn't rendering somewhere and you need to know whether the problem is the metadata or the platform.

Analytics. Aggregate views of activity over time. Lighter than a screener, but useful for spotting whether trading is continuous or came in one burst.

Verifying activity you paid for

This is the single most valuable thing Solscan does for a creator, so let's be specific.

Suppose somebody ran a campaign on your coin. Open Transfers and ask four questions.

Are there swaps at all in the claimed window? How many distinct addresses appear, rather than how many transactions? Do the timestamps spread across hours, or cluster into 4 minutes? Do the addresses have history before your coin, or does each one appear from nowhere, buy once, and stop?

Many distinct wallets, spread timing, varied sizes, real histories. Genuine activity looks like that, every time, and the shape is unmistakable once you have seen a real one and a fake one side by side. Twelve addresses funded 10 minutes earlier by the same wallet, trading on a metronome, is something else, and the pattern is obvious once you've seen it once.

How to judge a volume service puts this check first for exactly that reason, ahead of price and promises.

Reading holder distribution

Open Holders and look at the top 10.

What share does the largest wallet hold? Is your own creator wallet in there, and if so at what percentage? How steep is the drop from first to tenth?

A coin where the top wallet holds 4% and the curve down to tenth is gentle reads completely differently from one where the top wallet holds 38%. Buyers make that comparison in about 15 seconds, and they make it before they read your description.

Worth knowing your own numbers, because you can't change them retroactively but you can decide how you behave knowing they're visible.

Following a single transaction

Click any signature and you get the full anatomy: which programs ran, which accounts changed, how balances moved, what fee was paid, and whether it succeeded.

Two practical uses. When a buyer says a swap failed, the signature tells you whether it was slippage, a priority fee problem or something else, which reading a failed transaction covers. And when you want to understand what actually happens during a swap on your coin, one transaction read carefully teaches more than any explanation.

Following funding trails

Click an address and you see its full history, including where its SOL came from.

This is how people identify wallet clusters. A set of addresses all funded from one source shortly before they all bought the same coin is a readable pattern, and anybody can read it. That's the reason fleet funding is harder than it looks, covered in funding a wallet fleet.

For you as a creator, the relevant version is simpler: your own funding trail is visible too. Where your launch wallet got its SOL, and what else that source has funded, is public.

A 10-minute routine

Do this once after launching and once a day while a campaign runs:

Open your mint, check transfer count and how many distinct addresses appear
Open Holders, look at the top 10 and the concentration
Check whether trading spreads across hours or clusters
Click one recent swap and confirm it looks like a normal trade
Check your metadata renders correctly

None of it takes long, and it replaces guessing with reading. If what you find is almost no transfers and 5 addresses, that's a distribution problem rather than a platform problem, and the console prices sustained activity against a specific window with the full cost shown before anything is signed.