Every 100x story starts the same way: someone found a token minutes after its liquidity pool went live. So does every rug story. New pools are where the asymmetric upside lives — and where the vast majority of outright scams live too. This post covers where to actually find fresh pools, and the 60-second checklist that filters out most of the garbage.
Where fresh pools show up first
GeckoTerminal has a new pools page per network. It's raw and unfiltered — you'll see everything, including pools with $30 of liquidity that exist only to appear in this list. The API is free and keyless (/networks/{network}/new_pools), which makes it the best base layer if you want to build your own feed.
DexScreener has a similar new pairs view with better filtering UI (min liquidity, min volume). Their API is also free.
Telegram channels are how most degens actually consume this. Raw firehose channels exist for every chain, but the noise ratio is brutal. I run @FreshPoolsFeed which posts hourly with two filters applied: liquidity above $25k (kills the dust) and FDV below $2M (kills "new pool for a token that's already a top-500 coin" — you're not early to anything with a $300M FDV). What's left is the actual hunting ground: small, fresh, liquid enough to exit.
