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Blackhat Empire · Price Surges
The Don’s Degens
What moved on Solana in the Price Surges lane, what the record says about it, and how to check a contract in ten minutes.
Live Price Surges alerts
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Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
The lane
A Price Surges alert means a token's price jumped against its recent range.
For The Don’s Degens, a fast chart can come from real demand or from a few wallets trading with themselves. The Don’s Degens uses Price Surges to find the move and the checks below to explain it.
Put simply, momentum alerts show that something is moving, not why. The Don’s Degens reads Price Surges on Solana as a question: who is driving the move, and can the pool absorb it?
Quick test: Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total. Check whether the move started before or after the first public call.
Glossary
- FDV
- Fully diluted value: price times total supply, including tokens not yet circulating.
- CTO
- A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
- Market cap
- The token price times supply in circulation.
- Holder count
- How many wallets hold any amount of the token.
How these alerts played out
295tokens measured
19 %2x in 24 h
5 %5x in 24 h
78 %dead in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 295 tokens in Price Surges on Solana. 19 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 5 % reached 5x; 78 % died inside a day, usually after about 3.4 h. The Solana average for all topics was 25 % reaching 2x. With 95 % confidence this lane did worse than the rest of Solana on the 2x measure, which is why the checks matter more here.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
Screening rule
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice The Don’s Degens made for Price Surges alerts:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 50 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
In the 34 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 3 hours), 28 passed this screen. The passing group sat at a median $246.0K cap with $48.8K in the pool and roughly 664 holders. 7 of the 34 lane alerts had liquidity below a tenth of their market cap, which makes exits expensive. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 23 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Guides for this lane
Background for this lane, from the Blackhat DYOR library. The Don’s Degens rotates the list over time.
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Telegram routes
Pick one route. @gmgnxpricesurges is the direct source for The Don’s Degens.
@gmgnxpricesurgesThe source channel for this desk: all Price Surges prints on Solana.
@empiresolpumptrendA pump.fun token is ranking on the launchpad's trending view: the Pump Trending channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add HYPE Radar folderAdds a whole set of verified channels to Telegram in one tap.
Solana channel folderOne folder with all Solana lanes.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
Past alerts, dated
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HeeHaw | SOL | $54K | $1000K | 19x | 2026-09-06 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 2026-08-24 |
| GrokBot | SOL | $70K | $4400K | 63x | 2026-08-24 |
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
Selected dated examples from XTRACK reports: multiple = tracked market cap at the report date divided by the market cap at first alert. These are not typical results and not realised profits.
How we read a contract
The same short routine, every time.
Step 1
Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them.
Step 2
Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
Step 3
Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
Step 4
Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast.
Step 5
Check holder concentration after excluding pool and burn wallets.
Recent Price Surges prints
The Don’s Degens's lane log for 2026-09-23. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- 15:03 UTC · PUMPCAT entered the lane at $246.0K; pool depth $55.4K, 431 holders.
- At 14:55 UTC the feed caught CX: cap $43.5K, liquidity $14.8K, 203 holders, top 10 holding 27 %.
- GO (14:18 UTC) — $150.7K cap against $34.9K liquidity, top 10 holding 25 %, +119.0 % over the prior hour.
- BASKET alerted at 14:09 UTC. Market cap $446.1K, liquidity $62.2K, +27.4 % over the prior hour, 629 holders.
- At 14:03 UTC the feed caught Dogecoin: cap $164.6K, liquidity $34.4K, 695 holders, top 10 holding 6 %.
- At 13:47 UTC the feed caught ZBURRITO: cap $35.0K, liquidity $16.9K, 171 holders, top 10 holding 20 %.
- GOUR alerted at 13:27 UTC. Market cap $306.8K, liquidity $48.8K, +18.6 % over the prior hour, 997 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
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Before you ask
What is The Don’s Degens?
The Don’s Degens is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Price Surges channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
An alert means the token matched a filter. Trust comes only from your own checks.
Where do the alerts come from?
From the Blackhat Empire alert network: on-chain data, launchpads, screeners and tracked wallets, filtered and posted to Telegram. The live board reads the same feed.
Is The Don’s Degens financial advice?
No. Alerts are observations from public data. Every token here can lose all of its value, and you decide what to do with the information.