Altcoinist finds what’s early. Definitive powers the trade.

"Altcoinist shows who consistently finds tokens before the crowd, so traders can follow who is early, see what they are finding, and trade on their terms. Definitive powers every trade with institutional-grade smart routing and advanced orders. This lets our team channel our focus into building our social trading features instead."
- Christian Andsberg, CEO at Altcoinist

Highlights

• Altcoinist, one of crypto’s most active trading communities, runs every trade through Definitive. It is also launching a social trading app in private beta, with an open waitlist available through its Telegram bot.
• See who was early. Traders can check when users first surfaced tokens, follow the people they trust, and see what they are watching. Users can build a public record without linking a wallet or exposing open positions or P&L.
• Better execution. Definitive’s smart order router aggregates more than 900 unique onchain liquidity sources. In Altcoinist’s head-to-head testing, routing powered by Definitive delivered 2–16x more tokens per trade than the Telegram bots tested.
• Advanced orders through a simple interface. Quick Trade, Stop Loss, Auto-Take Profit, Limit, TWAP, and Market orders are available in the bot.
• Proven scale. Definitive powers trading for Altcoinist’s 33K+ users, with $30M in volume across more than 65,000 trades during the six-month period covered by this case study.

From 33K+ Telegram users to a social trading app

Altcoinist is an onchain trading network that has grown into one of crypto’s most active trading communities.

Every active trader faces the same problem: too much noise and too little trust. By the time a token reaches every timeline or Telegram group, the earliest traders are already in. Calls that once surfaced on Crypto Twitter moved into private groups, while bots gave everyone faster access. The hard part now is knowing who found a token early and who reposted it after it ran. Traders spend hours scanning contracts, wallets, channels, and replies to work out who is worth following.

Altcoinist records when users surface tokens and makes that history visible. Traders can check who was early. Users can build a public record without linking a wallet or revealing open positions.

Altcoinist’s Telegram bot already serves 33K+ users across trading groups, where they discover and trade tokens without leaving Telegram. Now, Altcoinist is bringing that network into a social trading app, currently in private beta with an open waitlist.

But a signal without execution is only information. Traders need to act when an opportunity appears without losing value to poor routing or blunt market orders. Based on more than 400 head-to-head test trades across six tokens over two months, Definitive-powered routing delivered 2–16x more tokens per trade than the Telegram bots Altcoinist tested, depending on the token and trade conditions.

What Definitive unlocks. Its API lets Altcoinist ship professional trading features without spending years building execution infrastructure. Altcoinist surfaces what may be worth trading; Definitive provides the routing and order management needed to act on it.

Definitive powers every Altcoinist trade

Definitive is an onchain trading platform for professional traders and institutions, built by Coinbase Institutional Trading alumni and active DeFi experts. The execution engine used through Definitive’s terminal is also available through Flash API, and it powers every Altcoinist trade.

Smart routing for better fills

Altcoinist’s promise is simple: get more tokens, every trade. Definitive’s router aggregates more than 900 DEXs and onchain liquidity venues, splits orders across available liquidity, simulates trades to check quote accuracy, and reroutes as conditions change. Definitive also provides MEV mitigation and front-running protection.

In more than 400 head-to-head test trades across six tokens over two months, Definitive-powered routing delivered 2–16x more tokens per trade than the Telegram bots Altcoinist tested, depending on the token and trade conditions.

Advanced orders through a simple interface

Many Telegram bots and social trading apps offer market orders and a basic limit function. Altcoinist offers a broader trading toolkit powered by Definitive:

• Quick Trade for new token launches, with fast execution and configurable slippage settings.
• Stop Loss to cap downside.
• Auto-Take Profit to close positions when a target is reached.
• Limit Orders for entries and exits at a chosen price.
• TWAP to split larger entries and exits and reduce market impact in less-liquid tokens.
• Market for everything else.

The experience stays simple—tap, type, send—while Definitive handles the execution behind the scenes.

Multi-chain EVM & Solana coverage through one integration

Altcoinist users trade across Robinhood, Base, Ethereum, Solana, BNB, HyperEVM, and other emerging markets. Building reliable execution for each chain would require a separate roadmap. Definitive’s API gives Altcoinist EVM and Solana coverage through one integration. As Definitive adds chains and venues, Altcoinist can make them available without rebuilding its execution stack.

Trade history and post-trade reporting

Execution is only part of the job. Definitive provides trade history and post-trade reporting alongside execution, giving Altcoinist the data it needs to show real-time P&L, volume, and portfolio metrics without building a separate analytics pipeline. The same onchain data can support token discovery and reputation: one based on what the network is trading, the other on how users’ surfaced tokens perform over time. Neither depends on a self-reported screenshot.

What comes next: social trading that starts before the trade

A useful reputation system shows when someone first surfaced a token, how often they were early, and whether their misses count too.

Altcoinist records that history. Each discovery contributes to a user’s public record instead of disappearing in a Telegram chat or being reposted without attribution. Traders can decide who is worth following or whose activity they may want to auto-trade.

Users who consistently find tokens early rise on the leaderboard, attract followers, and build a credible, onchain-verified reputation.

Altcoinist already operates inside Telegram, where many onchain traders spend their time.

Its trading bot brings discovery and execution into the same interface. Users find tokens, follow signals, place trades, and manage orders without leaving Telegram.

The Altcoinist social app connects four parts of the trading experience:

Reputation and leaderboard

Altcoinist ranks users by how often they find tokens early. The leaderboard helps traders decide whose record is worth checking and who may be worth following.

Token discovery

See the tokens top-ranked users are watching. Instead of filtering every contract and Telegram message, traders can focus on activity from people with a visible history of finding tokens early.

Private positions

Keep trades private while building a public record. Users can show when they surfaced a token without linking a wallet or revealing open positions or P&L.

Social auto-trading

Set rules around the users and token events you want to act on. Choose the people, tokens, and signals you trust, then decide when and how Altcoinist should trade.

Follow who is early, discover what they are watching, and trade on your terms.

The social trading app is in private beta. Open the Altcoinist Telegram bot, select Open App, and join the waitlist.

Real impact at scale

Definitive powers the full trading experience for Altcoinist’s 33K+ users. During the six-month period covered by this case study:

• $30M in trading volume was routed through Definitive’s API.
• More than 65,000 trades were executed across Base, Ethereum, Solana, BNB, Monad, HyperEVM, and other markets.
• Altcoinist’s network reached 33K+ users, with more than 800 users actively surfacing tokens for the signals network.

Learn more about Altcoinist: altcoinist.com | X: @Altcoinist

Learn more about Definitive Flash API: flash.definitive.fi | X: @definitivefi