· Wallet Sleuth Team
Wallet Behavior Score, Explained
Short answer: a Wallet Behavior Score is a 0-100 number Wallet Sleuth computes for any wallet it's tracing, built from nine on-chain signals like dump risk, exit pace, patience, and composure. High scores mean a wallet holds what it buys and exits carefully when it does sell. Low scores mean a wallet dumps fast, in size, right after buying. The score comes with a label (dumper, accumulator, diamond hand, and others) and a written summary, so you don't have to read the number in a vacuum.
What it measures
The score looks at three separate things a wallet can do with a position, and blends them:
- Selling. When a wallet sells on the open market, the score looks at how much it dumped in its single largest sell, how evenly its sells are sized, how fast it exited after buying, whether it sold into a falling price (panic selling), and whether its sell pattern looks disciplined (laddered, even tranches) or erratic.
- Transferring out. Moving tokens to another wallet isn't the same as selling, so it's scored separately: how much of a wallet's peak holdings left via transfer, and where they went (a known exchange, one or two other addresses, or fanned out across many).
- Holding. This is the one signal every wallet has, even one that's never sold: how much of what it acquired it still holds (retention), and how long it's held it (patience). A wallet that's bought and done nothing else still gets a score, because holding is itself a behavior.
A wallet needs at least a little trading history before any of this means anything. Below that, Wallet Sleuth labels it insufficient rather than guessing.
Reading the label
The score comes with a plain-English label. The broad buckets, low to high:
| Score range | Label | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Under 30 | Dumper | Sold most of a position fast, usually in one move |
| 30-50 | Aggressive | Sold a meaningful share, without the discipline of a laddered exit |
| 50-70 | Balanced | Mixed buying and selling, no strong lean either way |
| 70+ | Distributor | Sold steadily, in even tranches, over time |
Underneath those four buckets, more specific archetypes catch patterns the range alone would miss: accumulator and investor for wallets that barely offload what they buy, diamond hand for a wallet that's kept buying and held through everything, flipper and scalper for wallets that round-trip positions in minutes, swing trader for hours-to-days round trips, panic seller for selling into drawdowns, and separate labels for wallets that mainly transfer out rather than sell: cex depositor (sends to a known exchange), consolidator (sends to one or two addresses), and disperser (fans out to many).
None of these labels are a prediction of what the wallet does next. They describe what it's already done.
Where you'll see it
Every wallet on a tracking page, and every wallet you deep-trace, gets a score with a radar chart breaking down the individual signals and a price timeline showing entries and exits against the token's price. Sleuth AI adds a written summary of the pattern in plain language. Wallet audits (Wallet Sleuth's paste-a-list risk report) use the same behavior labels alongside per-wallet risk factors when grading a whole list of wallets at once.
What the score is not
It's not a prediction, a buy or sell signal, or investment advice. A high score describes how a wallet has behaved with a token so far, not what it will do next or whether the token itself is a good investment. Past behavior on one token also doesn't guarantee the same behavior on the next one, a wallet scored as a patient accumulator on one trade can behave differently on another. Use it to understand a wallet's track record, not to outsource a decision to a single number.
FAQ
Can a wallet's score change over time? Yes. The score is computed from a wallet's history at the time you look, so new buys, sells, or transfers shift it. A wallet that looked like an accumulator last week can score differently after a large sell.
Does transferring to my own other wallet hurt my score? Not the way selling does. Transfers are scored on their own dimension (destination and share of holdings moved), separate from the sell-side signals, specifically so moving funds between your own wallets doesn't read as dumping.
Is this the same score shown in a Wallet Audit report? Audits use the same underlying behavior labels as part of a wider per-wallet risk grade that also looks at things like funding source and coordination with other wallets in the list, it's the same trader-behavior lens applied inside a bigger report.
Where do these numbers come from? Directly from Wallet Sleuth's own scoring engine, the same one used live on every tracking page and audit. This guide describes what the product measures and how to read it, not a third-party methodology.