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How we read a contract
Run these on every contract, in this order.
- Open the deployer wallet and read its earlier launches.
- Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast.
- Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
- Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window.
- Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
- Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
Alerts as they land
Loading live Volume alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
The lane
A Volume alert means traded volume jumped sharply against the token's recent average.
Put simply, price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Degen.ismylife keeps the Volume feed open to measure how many do not.
Momentum alerts show that something is moving, not why. Degen.ismylife reads Volume on Solana as a question: who is driving the move, and can the pool absorb it?
Start here: Check whether the move started before or after the first public call. Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total.
How these alerts played out
434tokens measured
82 %dead in 24 h
13 %2x in 24 h
3 %5x in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 434 tokens in Volume on Solana. 13 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 3 % reached 5x; 82 % died inside a day, usually after about 0.2 h. The Solana average for all topics was 24 % reaching 2x. The measured 2x rate sits below the rest of Solana with 95 % confidence in this window.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
Recorded alerts
Snapshot of 2026-09-24: alerts Degen.ismylife pulled from the @empiresolvolume lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- At 23:05 UTC the feed caught CALI: cap $1.95M, liquidity $149.0K, 2,221 holders, top 10 holding 24 %.
- 20:25 UTC · BOTIFY entered the lane at $946.3K; pool depth $82.1K, 446 holders.
- At 11:45 UTC the feed caught fomopay: cap $304.0K, liquidity $85.9K, 1,650 holders, top 10 holding 25 %.
- EMBER (11:04 UTC) — $21.70M cap against $2.23M liquidity, top 10 holding 24 %, +9.1 % over the prior hour.
- GIGACAT alerted at 08:35 UTC. Market cap $74.9K, liquidity $20.5K, 489 holders.
- -- . -- . printed at 06:17 UTC with a $36.5K market cap and $16.2K in the pool, 366 holders.
- 🍌KEVIN (06:11 UTC) — $28.8K cap against $45.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 12 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Study list
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Quick definitions
- FDV
- Fully diluted value: price times total supply, including tokens not yet circulating.
- CTO
- Community takeover: holders relaunch a token after the team leaves.
- Honeypot
- A contract that blocks or taxes selling so buyers are stuck.
- Dev wallet
- The address that deployed the token; its holdings and sells matter.
The filter
The rule behind this page. Degen.ismylife keeps an alert only if it passes all of these:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
Checked against the latest 42 alerts in the lane (about 25 hours): 16 passed. Those that passed had a median market cap of $304.0K, median liquidity of $82.1K and about 1650 holders. 4 out of 42 alerts showed a pool smaller than a tenth of the cap — a warning sign on its own. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 13 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
From the XTRACK reports
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOOKSMAX | SOL | $30K | $2400K | 77x | 2026-08-16 |
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
| HeeHaw | SOL | $54K | $1000K | 19x | 2026-09-06 |
| GrokBot | SOL | $70K | $4400K | 63x | 2026-08-24 |
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.
Telegram routes
Pick one route. @empiresolvolume is the direct source for Degen.ismylife.
@empiresolvolumeLive Volume alerts for Solana, as they fire.
@empiresolfomoSeveral separate wallets and sources piled into the same token: the FOMO WEB channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe verified Solana main group with all alert lanes.
Add HYPE Radar folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
@gmgnx_chatTalk to other members and the team.
Nearby desks
- Cepryl’s Alpha Room — KOL New Apes on Solana
- Giga Mint — Smart Money Buys on Solana
- Bonk Keep — Smart Money Exits on BNB Chain
Common questions
What is Degen.ismylife?
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.
What does 'dead' mean on the scoreboard?
A token counts as dead when its market cap falls 80 % or more from the first alert, drops under $5K, or its pool loses its liquidity.
Does Degen.ismylife 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 Degen.ismylife financial advice?
No. The desk shows data and a checking method. It does not recommend buying or selling anything.