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Telegram routes
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Colewherld’s Degens links the routes that fit this lane.
@empiresolfreshbuysThe source channel for this desk: all Fresh Wallet Buys prints on Solana.
@empiresolbigbuysA large single purchase hit the token: the Big Buys channel.
Open SOLANA MainAll Solana lanes in one verified group.
Add Single Buys folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
Right now on Solana
Loading live Fresh Wallet Buys alerts…
Screen: at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
What a Fresh Wallet Buys alert means
A Fresh Wallet Buys alert means newly created wallets bought the token.
Colewherld’s Degens reads on-chain buying as evidence, with limits. One wallet can split into ten; a fresh wallet can belong to the deployer. The checks below cover both cases.
Wallet alerts show what money did, which is harder to fake than a post. Colewherld’s Degens follows Fresh Wallet Buys on Solana and asks whose wallets they are and what they did before.
First look: Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy. Compare the buy size with pool liquidity; a buy that moves price far is also hard to exit.
Deeper reading
If you follow @empiresolfreshbuys, these guides explain the checks behind it.
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Terms used here
- Contract address
- The address that identifies exactly one token.
- Market cap
- Price multiplied by circulating supply; on new tokens it can change several times in an hour.
- Bonding curve
- A launchpad pricing rule where price rises as supply is bought, until the token graduates to an open pool.
- Sniper
- A bot or wallet that buys in the first seconds of a launch.
Dated examples from the network
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HeeHaw | SOL | $54K | $1000K | 19x | 2026-09-06 |
| LOOKSMAX | SOL | $30K | $2400K | 77x | 2026-08-16 |
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
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.
Recent Fresh Wallet Buys prints
A sample from the Fresh Wallet Buys lane on Solana, recorded by Colewherld’s Degens on 2026-09-23. The live board above keeps updating; this log does not.
- APECAT alerted at 14:42 UTC. Market cap $440.3K, liquidity $65.3K, -10.0 % over the prior hour, 409 holders.
- CALI printed at 14:34 UTC with a $1.00M market cap and $302.2K in the pool, 738 holders.
- FEELSGOOD printed at 14:22 UTC with a $3.40M market cap and $533.1K in the pool, 1,710 holders.
- GROK printed at 14:03 UTC with a $2.90M market cap and $269.5K in the pool, 1,106 holders.
- JEANPHIL (13:54 UTC) — $7.80M cap against $815.5K liquidity, top 10 holding 15 %, -9.0 % over the prior hour.
- GIGACAT (13:44 UTC) — $490.5K cap against $79.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 23 %, -50.6 % over the prior hour.
- 12:28 UTC · ₽ entered the lane at $3.50M; pool depth $135.9K, 1,965 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
The filter
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen Colewherld’s Degens applies to the @empiresolfreshbuys lane:
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
In the 39 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 3 hours), 9 passed this screen. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $1.00M, liquidity $135.9K, holders 1106. Thin pools were common: 3 of 39 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 27 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Numbers, not promises
34 %5x in 24 h
59 %2x in 24 h
143tokens measured
36 %dead in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 143 tokens in Fresh Wallet Buys on Solana. 59 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 34 % reached 5x; 36 % died inside a day, usually after about 10.8 h. The Solana average for all topics was 25 % reaching 2x. The measured 2x rate is above the rest of Solana with 95 % confidence for this window.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
A ten-minute check
Every Fresh Wallet Buys alert gets the same checks at Colewherld’s Degens.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Work from the contract address; tickers repeat across chains and copies. |
| 2 | Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block. |
| 3 | Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure. |
| 4 | See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when. |
| 5 | Open the deployer wallet and read its earlier launches. |
| 6 | Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling. |
Sister desks
- Xelf’s Gambles — Trending on Solana
- Carlsen’s Checkmate — Smart Money Exits on Solana
- Mega Lab — Trending on Solana
Common questions
What is Colewherld’s Degens?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Fresh Wallet Buys 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.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Most new tokens lose their liquidity or most of their value within a day. In the same window 36 % of Fresh Wallet Buys alerts on Solana died inside 24 hours.
How often does a Fresh Wallet Buys alert reach 2x?
Over 7 days of mature data, 59 % reached 2x inside a day. That is a measured past rate, not a forecast.