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What a Single Buys alert means
A Single Buys alert means one tracked wallet bought the token.
Put simply, when tracked wallets move, Single Buys prints it. Pepe Gambles adds the context: size against liquidity, wallet history and what those wallets did after.
In short: wallet alerts show what money did, which is harder to fake than a post. Pepe Gambles follows Single Buys on Solana and asks whose wallets they are and what they did before.
First look: Check whether several buying wallets were funded from one source a few minutes earlier. Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy.
Fresh from @empiresolsinglebuys
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Screen: liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
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What passes here
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen Pepe Gambles applies to the @empiresolsinglebuys lane:
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
In the 46 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 1 hours), 4 passed this screen. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $794.1K, liquidity $111.2K, holders 8631. 7 of the 46 lane alerts had liquidity below a tenth of their market cap, which makes exits expensive. Median concentration in the lane: 13 % of supply in the top ten wallets.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Network history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grokstreet | SOL | $26K | $255K | 10x | 2026-08-30 |
| astro | Robinhood | $74K | $5600K | 76x | 2026-09-09 |
| GME | Robinhood | $41K | $3300K | 80x | 2026-09-04 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 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.
Terms used here
- Multiple
- How many times the market cap grew from the first alert, e.g. 3x.
- Wash trading
- Fake volume created by one party trading with itself.
- Freeze authority
- Permission to lock holders' balances.
- Mint authority
- The right to create new supply; on a safe token it is revoked.
Recorded alerts
Recorded on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. Pepe Gambles keeps a short log so the page shows real alerts even without scripts.
- 05:48 UTC · familiars entered the lane at $1.49M; pool depth $195.9K, 4,518 holders.
- At 05:42 UTC the feed caught NPC: cap $264.3K, liquidity $48.1K, 8,631 holders, top 10 holding 25 %.
- At 05:42 UTC the feed caught world: cap $313.5K, liquidity $111.2K, 24,157 holders, top 10 holding 29 %.
- At 05:40 UTC the feed caught QUEEF: cap $794.1K, liquidity $89.1K, 1,073 holders, top 10 holding 17 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Telegram routes
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Pepe Gambles links the routes that fit this lane.
@empiresolsinglebuysEvery Single Buys alert on Solana posts here first.
@empiresolcexbuysBuyers whose funds came directly from a centralized exchange appeared: the CEX-Funded Buys channel.
Open SOLANA MainAll Solana lanes in one verified group.
Add Multibuys folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
@gmgnx_chatTalk to other members and the team.
Checks before any trade
Pepe Gambles runs these checks on each Single Buys alert.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Confirm on the chart which pool the price comes from and how deep it is. |
| 2 | Size the position so a total loss does not change your week. |
| 3 | See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when. |
| 4 | Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast. |
| 5 | Check holder concentration after excluding pool and burn wallets. |
Measured outcomes
19 %2x in 24 h
52 %dead in 24 h
7 %5x in 24 h
1380tokens measured
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 1380 tokens in Single Buys on Solana. 19 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 7 % reached 5x; 52 % died inside a day, usually after about 6 h. The Solana average for all topics was 24 % reaching 2x. With 95 % confidence this lane did worse than the rest of Solana on the 2x measure, which is why the checks matter more here.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
Questions
What is Pepe Gambles?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Single Buys alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
How often does a Single Buys alert reach 2x?
Over 7 days of mature data, 19 % reached 2x inside a day. That is a measured past rate, not a forecast.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
An alert means the token matched a filter. Trust comes only from your own checks.
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.
Sister desks
- Jeet Floor — Big Buys on Solana
- Sniper Mint — Multibuys on Robinhood Chain
- WAGMI — Callers Degen on Solana