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The live feed
Loading live Volume alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Past alerts, dated
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 2026-08-24 |
| LOOKSMAX | SOL | $30K | $2400K | 77x | 2026-08-16 |
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
Reading the Volume lane
A Volume alert means a token printed volume far above its short-term baseline.
Day to day, price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Degen Dan Plays keeps the Volume feed open to measure how many do not.
Put simply, momentum alerts show that something is moving, not why. Degen Dan Plays reads Volume on Solana as a question: who is driving the move, and can the pool absorb it?
Start here: Divide 24-hour volume by liquidity. A very high ratio can mean churn between a few wallets. Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total.
Join the channels
Degen Dan Plays does not post alerts itself; these Telegram routes do.
@empiresolvolumeThe source channel for this desk: all Volume prints on Solana.
@empiresolpumptrendA pump.fun token is ranking on the launchpad's trending view: the Pump Trending channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe verified Solana main group with all alert lanes.
Add Momentum folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
Solana channel folderEvery verified Solana alert channel, added as one folder.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
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The scoreboard
14 %2x in 24 h
379tokens measured
81 %dead in 24 h
4 %5x in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 379 tokens in Volume on Solana. 14 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 4 % reached 5x; 81 % died inside a day, usually after about 0.3 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.
From the @empiresolvolume lane
Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts Degen Dan Plays pulled from the @empiresolvolume lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- fomopay (11:45 UTC) — $304.0K cap against $85.9K liquidity, top 10 holding 25 %, -68.5 % over the prior hour.
- dress (09:23 UTC) — $77.8K cap against $21.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 13 %.
- -- . -- . (06:17 UTC) — $36.5K cap against $16.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 17 %.
- 🍌KEVIN (06:11 UTC) — $28.8K cap against $45.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 12 %.
- At 04:07 UTC the feed caught BOME: cap $78.58M, liquidity $19.08M, 123,591 holders, top 10 holding 21 %.
- DBR printed at 04:01 UTC with a $187.19M market cap and $5.81M in the pool, 82,045 holders.
- At 02:08 UTC the feed caught 4Deer: cap $974.6K, liquidity $95.2K, 2,119 holders, top 10 holding 5 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
The filter
Degen Dan Plays narrows the Volume lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
In the 45 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 13 hours), 15 passed this screen. Those that passed had a median market cap of $304.0K, median liquidity of $85.9K and about 1891 holders. 9 of the 45 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 7 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Checks before any trade
Every Volume alert gets the same checks at Degen Dan Plays.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block. |
| 2 | Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count. |
| 3 | Write down the level that proves you wrong before any buy. |
| 4 | Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it. |
| 5 | Work from the contract address; tickers repeat across chains and copies. |
| 6 | Use an amount you can lose completely without stress. |
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Before you ask
What is Degen Dan Plays?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Volume alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
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.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
No token earns trust by appearing in an alert. Run the checks on this page on every contract, every time.
Does Degen Dan Plays hold or sell tokens it shows?
The desk does not trade from this page and does not take payment from projects for listing them.
