Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 100 holders. Charts open on GMGN.
The filter
Dust narrows the Big Buys lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
market cap at least $10.0K
liquidity at least $5.0K
at least 100 holders
Checked against the latest 20 alerts in the lane (about 4 hours): 16 passed. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $4.18M, liquidity $687.6K, holders 5349. Thin pools were common: 5 of 20 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 18 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
The lane
A Big Buys alert means one buy of unusual size went through.
Dust 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. Dust follows Big Buys on Solana and asks whose wallets they are and what they did before.
One habit: Check whether several buying wallets were funded from one source a few minutes earlier. Compare the buy size with pool liquidity; a buy that moves price far is also hard to exit.
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
From the @empiresolbigbuys lane
Snapshot of 2026-09-24: alerts Dust pulled from the @empiresolbigbuys lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
OTC alerted at 05:44 UTC. Market cap $5.66M, liquidity $787.9K, 16,839 holders.
05:42 UTC · PAID entered the lane at $9.55M; pool depth $1.59M, 32,030 holders.
familiars (05:23 UTC) — $1.83M cap against $281.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 18 %, -25.7 % over the prior hour.
GROK alerted at 05:18 UTC. Market cap $6.78M, liquidity $528.6K, 5,349 holders.
04:07 UTC · NPC entered the lane at $563.2K; pool depth $140.3K, 3,424 holders.
PUMPCADE (03:46 UTC) — $10.11M cap against $687.6K liquidity, top 10 holding 27 %.
At 03:41 UTC the feed caught GP: cap $27.47M, liquidity $2.28M, 20,932 holders, top 10 holding 27 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
What the record says
19 %2x in 24 h
78 %dead in 24 h
4 %5x in 24 h
27tokens measured
27 Big Buys alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 19 % doubled inside 24 hours, 4 % went 5x, and 78 % were dead within the day, usually after about 1.5 h. For comparison, 24 % of all Solana alerts doubled.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
Our method
Ten minutes, before any money moves.
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Check
1
Decide your exit before you enter, including the price where you are wrong.
2
Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
3
Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast.
4
Size the position so a total loss does not change your week.
5
Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it.
Words on this page
Market cap
Price multiplied by circulating supply; on new tokens it can change several times in an hour.
Liquidity
Pool depth: the larger it is, the less a single trade moves the price.
Bonding curve
The launchpad mechanism that sets price from how much supply has been sold so far.
Bundle
A group of wallets that buy in the same block at launch, often controlled by one party.
Study list
Five reads that fit Big Buys alerts on Solana, chosen by Dust.
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