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The lane
A KOL New Apes alert means a KOL wallet bought a token it had not held before.
X50 Gambles Degen Call treats every KOL call as a public claim with a timestamp. The KOL New Apes channel records the claim; the desk records what the token did next.
Put simply, influencer calls move thin markets. X50 Gambles Degen Call watches KOL New Apes to separate calls that attract lasting holders from calls that attract a quick round trip.
Start here: Check how the KOL's last ten calls did one day later, not one hour later. Find when the KOL's wallet bought compared with the time of the post.
Alerts as they land
Loading live KOL New Apes alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $50.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Selected history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT | Robinhood | $44K | $3400K | 77x | 2026-08-30 |
| RETAIL | Robinhood | $19K | $362K | 19x | 2026-09-02 |
| SOCIALCAT | Robinhood | $16K | $315K | 19x | 2026-09-02 |
| astro | Robinhood | $74K | $5600K | 76x | 2026-09-09 |
Picked from the network's dated XTRACK outcome reports. A market-cap multiple is not a trading profit, and most alerted tokens did far worse.
What passes here
The rule behind this page. X50 Gambles Degen Call keeps an alert only if it passes all of these:
- market cap at least $50.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 50 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
In the 18 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 5 hours), 9 passed this screen. Those that passed had a median market cap of $785.8K, median liquidity of $131.9K and about 1289 holders. Thin pools were common: 1 of 18 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 33 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
A ten-minute check
The same short routine, every time.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block. |
| 2 | Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure. |
| 3 | Write down the level that proves you wrong before any buy. |
| 4 | Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling. |
| 5 | Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window. |
| 6 | Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it. |
Lane log
Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts X50 Gambles Degen Call pulled from the @gmgnxsolkolnewapes lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- 15:05 UTC · LEVERCAT entered the lane at $2.16M; pool depth $295.5K, 5,332 holders.
- KCAT printed at 14:24 UTC with a $236.6K market cap and $60.6K in the pool, 797 holders.
- QUEEF alerted at 14:03 UTC. Market cap $785.8K, liquidity $131.9K, -5.6 % over the prior hour, 476 holders.
- At 12:52 UTC the feed caught EMBER: cap $20.75M, liquidity $1.82M, 23,327 holders, top 10 holding 24 %.
- ARCHIBROWN printed at 11:53 UTC with a $631.4K market cap and $83.0K in the pool, 2,359 holders.
- At 11:27 UTC the feed caught pill: cap $1.11M, liquidity $144.2K, 3,182 holders, top 10 holding 27 %.
- SI (11:04 UTC) — $4.04M cap against $523.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 7 %, +24.8 % over the prior hour.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
The scoreboard
115tokens measured
83 %dead in 24 h
6 %5x in 24 h
24 %2x in 24 h
115 KOL New Apes alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 24 % doubled inside 24 hours, 6 % went 5x, and 83 % were dead within the day, usually after about 0.7 h. For comparison, 25 % of all Solana alerts doubled. Statistically the lane is not yet different from the rest of Solana.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
Words on this page
- Rug pull
- An exit by insiders that leaves holders unable to sell at any fair price.
- Graduation
- The moment a launchpad token completes its curve and liquidity moves to a regular pool.
- Dev wallet
- The address that deployed the token; its holdings and sells matter.
- Top-10 share
- How concentrated supply is in the largest holders.
Follow on Telegram
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. X50 Gambles Degen Call links the routes that fit this lane.
@gmgnxsolkolnewapesLive KOL New Apes alerts for Solana, as they fire.
@empiresolkolfomoKOL calls on one token accelerated: the KOL FOMO channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add KOL Callers folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
Solana channel folderEvery verified Solana alert channel, added as one folder.
@gmgnx_chatOpen chat for the Empire community.
Study list
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FAQ
What is X50 Gambles Degen Call?
X50 Gambles Degen Call is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the KOL New Apes channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
Does X50 Gambles Degen Call hold or sell tokens it shows?
The desk does not trade from this page and does not take payment from projects for listing them.
Is X50 Gambles Degen Call financial advice?
No. The desk shows data and a checking method. It does not recommend buying or selling anything.
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.