---
title: "KOL trade feed (real-time on PRO+; 5-min delay on free)"
method: GET
path: "/kol/feed"
tags: ["KOL"]
---

# KOL trade feed (real-time on PRO+; 5-min delay on free)

`GET /kol/feed`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://madeonsol.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://madeonsol.com/api/v1/kol/feed`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Stream-of-consciousness feed of every buy/sell of at least 0.05 SOL (or $3.50 in USDC/USDT) from 2,000+ tracked Solana KOL wallets. Sub-3s latency from on-chain confirmation on PRO and up (and x402 pay-per-call); the free tier serves this feed on a 5-minute delay (response carries delay/as_of).

## Query parameters

- `since` string, date-time
- `include` 'token'
- `limit` integer
- `before` string, date-time
- `cursor` string
- `action` 'buy' | 'sell'
- `kol` string
- `min_sol` number
- `token_age_max_min` integer
- `exclude_sells` boolean
- `min_kol_winrate` number
- `strategy` 'scalper' | 'day_trader' | 'swing_trader' | 'hodler' | 'mixed'
- `min_mc_usd` number
- `max_mc_usd` number

## Response `200`

OK. Response includes `next_before` (ISO timestamp of the last row — pass to the `before` param on the next call). Every row carries `token_image_url` and `launchpad` (`pumpfun`/`launchlab`/`bags`, null for non-launchpad mints).

- object
  - `trades` KolTrade[]
    - `wallet_address` string
    - `kol_name` string
    - `kol_twitter` string, uri, nullable
    - `token_mint` string
    - `token_name` string, nullable
    - `token_symbol` string, nullable
    - `action` 'buy' | 'sell'
    - `sol_amount` number, nullable: SOL size of the trade. null on a sell whose SOL proceeds are unknown (they went to another wallet or cannot be proven; since 2026-10-18): the sell still happened and reduced the KOL's tokens. Never read null as 0.
    - `token_amount` number
    - `market_cap_usd_at_trade` number, nullable: Token market cap in USD at the moment of trade (real-time, from our in-memory price tracker — not the post-hoc Dexscreener spot)
    - `price_usd_at_trade` number, nullable: Token price in USD at the moment of trade
    - `tx_signature` string
    - `traded_at` string, date-time
    - `token_image_url` string, nullable
    - `launchpad` string, nullable: Launchpad of origin (`pumpfun` / `launchlab` / `bags`); null for non-launchpad mints.
    - `token_age_minutes` integer, nullable: Minutes between the token's first observed trade and now (not at trade time); null when the mint has no first-seen record.
    - `kol_strategy_tag` string, nullable: Manual strategy tag from the roster, falling back to the auto-classified tag.
    - `kol_auto_strategy_tag` 'scalper' | 'day_trader' | 'swing_trader' | 'hodler' | 'mixed' | 'null', nullable: Auto-classified trader style — the value `strategy=` filters on.
    - `kol_winrate_7d` number, nullable: KOL's 7-day win rate (0-100).
    - `kol_winrate_30d` number, nullable: KOL's 30-day win rate (0-100).
    - `kol_early_entry_pct_30d` number, nullable: Share of the KOL's 30-day buys that were early entries.
    - `kol_is_heating_up` boolean: KOL's recent performance is trending up vs their own baseline.
    - `kol_percentile_pnl_7d` number, nullable: KOL's 7-day PnL percentile across the roster (0-100).
    - `kol_percentile_winrate_7d` number, nullable: KOL's 7-day win-rate percentile across the roster (0-100).
    - `deployer` object: Present only when the token has a tracked deployer.
      - `wallet` string
      - `tier` 'elite' | 'good' | 'moderate' | 'rising' | 'cold' | 'unranked' | 'null', nullable
      - `bonding_rate` number, nullable
    - `deployer_tier` string, nullable: Shortcut for `deployer.tier`; present only when `deployer` is.
    - `token` object, nullable: Present only with `include=token` — the `/token/{mint}` snapshot for this row (null past the 20-distinct-mint cap).
  - `count` integer
  - `data_age_seconds` integer, nullable: Seconds since the newest returned row's traded_at; null on an empty page.
  - `next_before` string, date-time, nullable: Page-down cursor: pass as `before=` for older rows.
  - `next_cursor` string, nullable: Opaque keyset cursor for the next (older) page — pass as `cursor=`. PREFERRED over next_before, which is a strict timestamp bound that skips same-timestamp siblings of the boundary row.
  - `has_more` boolean: false only when the feed is exhausted (not merely when the page is short).
  - `scan` object: Present when a filter had to be applied after the candidate fetch (audit F09): has_more is then false only when the candidates ran out, and scan_truncated=true means the per-request scan budget ran out first — more matches MAY exist past next_cursor.
    - `post_filtered` boolean
    - `scanned` integer: Candidate rows examined
    - `scan_truncated` boolean: The per-request scan budget ran out before `limit` matches — more matches MAY exist past the cursor/offset
    - `scan_budget` integer
  - `next_since` string, date-time, nullable: Poll cursor: traded_at of the newest row on this page (or the `since` you sent when the page is empty). Pass as `since=` to fetch only newer rows; if count === limit page down with before= until you pass your previous since.
  - `since` string, date-time, nullable: Echo of the `since` parameter.
  - `stream` object: Pointer to the WebSocket channel that pushes the same rows (`kol:trades`) so you can stop polling.
    - `channel` string
    - `url` string
    - `docs` string
  - `included` string[]: Present only when `include=` was honoured.
  - `include_truncated` object: Present only when include=token hit the 20-distinct-mint cap: `{ token: [mints not embedded], note }` — those rows carry token:null.
    - `token` string[]
    - `note` string
  - `include_errors` object: Present only when an unknown `include=` value was sent: `{ <name>: { status: 400, error } }`.
  - `delay` string: Free tier only — the applied feed delay ("5m").
  - `delay_seconds` integer: Free tier only — the delay in seconds (300).
  - `as_of` string, date-time: Free tier only — the delayed cutoff the page was served at.
  - `delay_note` string: Free tier only — plain-words note that PRO+ and x402 are real-time.
  - `upgrade` string: Free tier only — pricing URL.

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing or invalid API key, or an expired free-tier key. Authentication-stage error: no `X-RateLimit-*` headers, no `_rid`.
- `403`: Forbidden. One of: the key's tier is below this endpoint's or parameter's gate (`tier_required` with an `upgrade` block); the public demo key used outside its allow-list (`demo_key_endpoint_not_allowed`); an invalid or revoked key; an origin-restricted key called from a disallowed origin (`code` `origin_not_allowed` / `origin_required`). `X-RateLimit-*` headers are present only on `tier_required`.
- `429`: Too many requests. Every 429 carries `Retry-After`. A quota 429 (`rate_limit_exceeded`, with `X-RateLimit-*`), a heavy-query concurrency 429 (`error_kind` `concurrency`/`capacity`), or the per-IP authentication-failure block (30 failed auths/min; plain `error` + `retry_after_seconds`, no `X-RateLimit-*`).
- `500`: Unexpected server error from the route (`Internal server error`, with `_rid`). Safe to retry with backoff. A failed API-key lookup is a 503 `auth_backend_unavailable`, never a 500.
- `503`: Temporarily unavailable — a Postgres statement timeout while the dataset is under load or maintenance (`statement_timeout`, with `X-RateLimit-*` and `_rid`), or the API-key lookup itself unavailable (`auth_backend_unavailable`, authentication stage: no `X-RateLimit-*`, no `_rid`, not counted as a failed authentication). Always carries `Retry-After`; honour it.

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