SIGNAL LOG // PUMP.FUN INTELLIGENCE
NOVA
Real-time intelligence for newly launched tokens.
NOVA watches every new pump.fun launch as it happens, runs a fast rug-risk check before the crowd arrives, and pushes what it finds straight to Telegram — a bot for on-demand lookups, a channel for the open broadcast, and $NOVA, the project's own token, launched under the exact mechanism it studies.
The $NOVA token
$NOVA is the project's own listing — a fair-launch token on pump.fun, running under the exact bonding-curve mechanism NOVA was built to watch.
Ticker $NOVA · Network Solana · Launch venue pump.fun, public bonding curve.
There was no presale, no private allocation and no team pre-mint set aside before launch. $NOVA entered circulation the same way every token NOVA screens does — anyone buying in on the open curve, in the same window as everyone else.
Why $NOVA exists
Not a utility token bolted onto the product — $NOVA is the project putting itself through the same scanner it built for everyone else.
Using the bot or the channel has never required holding $NOVA — there's no gating, no fee-share, no built-in alert priority tied to it today. Its purpose is different: it's a transparency exercise, a way for NOVA to have real skin in the exact game it screens, launched on the same public curve, at the same fair-launch starting line, as every mint it flags.
It's also become a rallying point for the people already using the signals — a way to hold a stake in the project itself, not just consume what it publishes.
Where NOVA goes from here
Sequenced around the community that actually uses the bot and channel today, not a fixed date-driven plan.
Phase 1 · Live
Engine, bot, channel, $NOVA. The real-time risk engine, @NovaRadarSignalsBot, @NOVAexperiment and $NOVA's own fair launch — the foundation already running today.
Phase 2 · In progress
Growing the community, tightening the score. Expanding the free channel and bot subscriber base, and tuning the risk-scoring rules against more live data — see the accuracy numbers in Architecture.
Phase 3 · Planned
A public dashboard. Browsing signal history and flagged insider wallets without needing Telegram, plus coverage beyond pump.fun's own curve.
Phase 4 · Exploring
A real community voice. Ways for the people holding $NOVA and using the signals to weigh in on how the risk score is tuned.
White paper
The full write-up — problem, mechanism, token, and risks — in one document.
NOVA started from one question: what does a pump.fun token look like in the first minute of its life? The white paper lays out the problem in full, how the engine answers it, what $NOVA is and isn't, and the risks involved in both the product and the token — in more depth than fits on this page.
One engine, three surfaces
NOVA is an experimental research and alerting system built around one question: what does a pump.fun token look like in the first minute of its life?
An always-on ingestion daemon keeps a live connection open to pump.fun's launch feed and to Solana through Helius. As soon as a token is created, NOVA starts watching its bonding curve — decoding trades, tracking the deployer's own buys, counting early buyers, and flagging wallets that look like repeat insiders — and turns that into a single risk read before most traders have opened the chart.
That one engine surfaces through three distinct, loosely-coupled things:
Bot
@NovaRadarSignalsBot — pull. Ask it about a specific mint, browse flagged insiders, or sit and receive alerts as they fire.
Channel
@NOVAexperiment — push. Every signal NOVA generates, broadcast in the open, no account or quota required.
$NOVA
The project's own pump.fun listing — launched the same way, and watched by the same engine, as every token NOVA screens.
@NovaRadarSignalsBot
Real-time intelligence for newly launched tokens.
The bot watches pump.fun launches in real time and sends a BUY signal for new tokens that pass a fast rug-risk check, plus a SELL / EMERGENCY alert if a token's deployer dumps after NOVA already signalled it. New accounts get five free alerts; after that, a subscription keeps them coming.
First contact. The bot explains itself in one message — what it watches, what it sends, and how to use it.
A live BUY signal. Everything NOVA could establish about a token in its first seconds, in one card.
Anatomy of a signal
- Risk score0–100, lower is safer — a rules-based read on how this launch looks so far.
- Evaluated athow long after launch NOVA formed this read (often just seconds).
- Dev's initial buyhow much SOL the deployer put into their own token.
- Dev's prior launcheshow many other tokens this same wallet has launched before.
- Unique buyers (60s)distinct wallets buying in the first minute.
- Buy/selltrade count and SOL volume on each side so far.
- Top 10 holdersconcentration among the largest holders, via Helius.
- Insiders among buyersbuyers already flagged as repeat early-snipers.
- Bonding curve progresshow far the token is toward migrating off the curve.
Commands
| /subscribe | see pricing or activate a subscription once the free alerts run out |
| /unsubscribe | stop receiving alerts |
| /check <mint> | look up a token's current risk score on demand |
| /top_insiders | wallets NOVA has flagged as repeat early-snipers |
$NOVA — the project's own listing
NOVA didn't just build a tool to watch pump.fun launches — it put one of its own on the curve.
$NOVA is launched on pump.fun, under the same bonding-curve mechanism NOVA screens for every other token that comes through its feed. It carries no special protocol utility today — no fee-share, no built-in alert priority — it's the project running its own product through the exact system it studies.
@NOVAexperiment
The open broadcast surface — every signal, no account required.
Where the bot is a one-to-one relationship gated by a free-alert quota, the channel is one-to-many: NOVA posts BUY, SELL and EMERGENCY signals as they fire, in the open, for anyone who joins to see. It's the fastest way to watch the whole feed go by without configuring anything.
Two paths, one feed
Every signal starts at the same source. From there it splits into a fast path built for alerting, and a slower, deeper path built for analysis.
A single always-on ingestion daemon — a plain asyncio process, not a scheduled job, because holding a websocket open for hours is a poor fit for a scheduler — keeps two live connections open: pump.fun's free launch feed for new mints, and Helius (Solana RPC) for trades against each token's bonding curve. Every event lands first in Bronze, a universal raw-JSON layer, exactly as received.
From there, two things happen to the same stream:
Snapshot from an early live verification pass against real trade data — a small sample, not a track record.