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What a Volume alert means
A Volume alert means traded volume jumped sharply against the token's recent average.
As a rule, price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Wif Keep keeps the Volume feed open to measure how many do not.
Wif Keep tracks Volume because moves show up there first. The desk then compares volume with liquidity, holder count and wallet spread before it treats a move as real.
First look: Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total. Check whether the move started before or after the first public call.
On the board now
Loading live Volume alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
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Recent Volume prints
Wif Keep logged these Volume alerts from the network feed on 2026-09-23. Numbers are the values at alert time.
- At 14:32 UTC the feed caught FEELSGOOD: cap $3.33M, liquidity $248.7K, 1,710 holders, top 10 holding 17 %.
- 12:33 UTC · MANIFEST entered the lane at $13.04M; pool depth $602.4K, 62,893 holders.
- PURRL (09:06 UTC) — $71.2K cap against $23.4K liquidity, top 10 holding 12 %, -2.5 % over the prior hour.
- GIGACAT printed at 08:35 UTC with a $74.9K market cap and $20.5K in the pool, 489 holders.
- 🍌KEVIN printed at 06:11 UTC with a $28.8K market cap and $45.0K in the pool, 359 holders.
- BOME alerted at 04:07 UTC. Market cap $78.58M, liquidity $19.08M, +2.9 % over the prior hour, 123,591 holders.
- DBR alerted at 04:01 UTC. Market cap $187.19M, liquidity $5.81M, +0.5 % over the prior hour, 82,045 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Numbers, not promises
81 %dead in 24 h
14 %2x in 24 h
4 %5x in 24 h
379tokens measured
Measured window: 7 days, 379 tokens. 2x within a day: 14 %. 5x within a day: 4 %. Dead within a day: 81 %, usually after about 0.3 h. All Solana topics together: 25 % reached 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 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
The desk's screen
The rule behind this page. Wif Keep keeps an alert only if it passes all of these:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
Checked against the latest 46 alerts in the lane (about 12 hours): 13 passed. Those that passed had a median market cap of $304.0K, median liquidity of $85.9K and about 1650 holders. Thin pools were common: 10 of 46 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. Median concentration in the lane: 7 % of supply in the top ten wallets.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Terms used here
- Wash trading
- Trading between linked wallets to inflate volume.
- Liquidity
- The value sitting in the trading pool; it limits how much you can buy or sell without moving price far.
- Contract address
- The unique on-chain identifier of a token; always verify it instead of the ticker.
- Rug pull
- When insiders remove liquidity or dump supply and the price collapses.
A ten-minute check
Every Volume alert gets the same checks at Wif Keep.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended. |
| 2 | Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it. |
| 3 | Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker. |
| 4 | Confirm on the chart which pool the price comes from and how deep it is. |
| 5 | Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly. |
| 6 | Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count. |
From the XTRACK reports
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATS | Robinhood | $10K | $198K | 19x | 2026-08-18 |
| PRIVVVATE | base | $15K | $532K | 34x | 2026-09-09 |
| Grokstreet | SOL | $26K | $255K | 10x | 2026-08-30 |
| Freedom of Money | BSC | $16K | $903K | 57x | 2026-09-10 |
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.
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Common questions
What is Wif Keep?
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.
How often does a Volume alert reach 2x?
Over 7 days of mature data, 14 % reached 2x inside a day. That is a measured past rate, not a forecast.
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 81 % of Volume alerts on Solana died inside 24 hours.
