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Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
What the record says
19 %2x in 24 h
27tokens measured
78 %dead in 24 h
4 %5x in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 27 tokens in Big Buys on Solana. 19 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 4 % reached 5x; 78 % died inside a day, usually after about 1.5 h. The Solana average for all topics was 24 % reaching 2x.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
Why Big Buys
A Big Buys alert means a large single purchase hit the token.
Day to day, when tracked wallets move, Big Buys prints it. Uncut Gems adds the context: size against liquidity, wallet history and what those wallets did after.
Uncut Gems 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.
One habit: Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy. Check whether several buying wallets were funded from one source a few minutes earlier.
A ten-minute check
The routine Uncut Gems uses before trusting any Solana alert.
- Confirm the token cannot be minted again or frozen in your wallet.
- Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
- Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it.
- Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended.
- Work from the contract address; tickers repeat across chains and copies.
Quick definitions
- Smart money
- Addresses the network rates highly from their past results.
- Market cap
- The token price times supply in circulation.
- CTO
- Community takeover: holders relaunch a token after the team leaves.
- Top-10 share
- How concentrated supply is in the largest holders.
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Join the channels
Telegram is where every Big Buys alert lands first. These are the verified routes for Uncut Gems.
@empiresolbigbuysThe source channel for this desk: all Big Buys prints on Solana.
@empiresolsmartmoneyWallets with a strong past record bought in: the Smart Money Buys channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe verified Solana main group with all alert lanes.
Add Multibuys folderAdds a whole set of verified channels to Telegram in one tap.
@gmgnx_chatOpen chat for the Empire community.
Lane log
Uncut Gems logged these Big Buys alerts from the network feed on 2026-09-24. Numbers are the values at alert time.
- OTC printed at 05:44 UTC with a $5.66M market cap and $787.9K in the pool, 16,839 holders.
- PURR printed at 05:01 UTC with a $7.08M market cap and $800.8K in the pool, 14,023 holders.
- NPC (04:07 UTC) — $563.2K cap against $140.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 26 %, +423.0 % over the prior hour.
- At 03:13 UTC the feed caught BOTIFY: cap $1.07M, liquidity $83.1K, 621 holders, top 10 holding 10 %.
- WOJAK alerted at 02:44 UTC. Market cap $1.72M, liquidity $361.0K, 18,183 holders.
- 02:42 UTC · JEANPHIL entered the lane at $4.18M; pool depth $743.9K, 8,331 holders.
- At 02:03 UTC the feed caught ALLINU: cap $9.02M, liquidity $915.8K, 12,324 holders, top 10 holding 20 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
How Uncut Gems filters
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice Uncut Gems made for Big Buys alerts:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
Checked against the latest 20 alerts in the lane (about 4 hours): 14 passed. The passing group sat at a median $5.66M cap with $687.6K in the pool and roughly 8331 holders. 5 of the 20 lane alerts had liquidity below a tenth of their market cap, which makes exits expensive. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 18 % of supply.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fone | SOL | $44K | $23800K | 538x | 2026-08-30 |
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
| Grokstreet | SOL | $26K | $255K | 10x | 2026-08-30 |
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
Before you ask
What is Uncut Gems?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Big Buys alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
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 78 % of Big Buys alerts on Solana died inside 24 hours.
How often does a Big Buys alert reach 2x?
In the last 7 measured days, 19 % of Big Buys alerts on Solana reached 2x within 24 hours (27 tokens). The same share can be very different next week.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Open the Telegram link on this page for @empiresolbigbuys. Alerts arrive there first.