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Right now on Solana
Loading live KOTH alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K. Charts open on GMGN.
What this desk watches
A KOTH alert means a pump.fun token reached the King of the Hill slot on the launchpad.
On Solana, launch-stage tokens change fastest. Liquidity is thin, holders are few and one wallet can move the chart. J7’s - Degen Journal reads each KOTH alert as a starting point for checks, never as a verdict.
J7’s - Degen Journal watches the launch lane because most failed tokens fail there. The KOTH channel is its raw input; the checks below are the filter.
One habit: Check the top ten holders, the share held by the deployer and whether liquidity is locked or burned before anything else. Look at the holder count trend over the first hour; a flat count with rising volume points to wash trading.
Screening rule
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen J7’s - Degen Journal applies to the @gmgnxsolkoth lane:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- liquidity at least $10.0K
In the 47 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 38 hours), 9 passed this screen. The passing group sat at a median $66.2K cap with $27.2K in the pool and roughly 0 holders. 31 out of 47 alerts showed a pool smaller than a tenth of the cap — a warning sign on its own. Median concentration in the lane: 0 % 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.
How we read a contract
The same short routine, every time.
Step 1
Decide your exit before you enter, including the price where you are wrong.
Step 2
Work from the contract address; tickers repeat across chains and copies.
Step 3
Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
Step 4
Use an amount you can lose completely without stress.
Step 5
Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
Numbers, not promises
42tokens measured
0 %5x in 24 h
71 %dead in 24 h
2 %2x in 24 h
42 KOTH alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 2 % doubled inside 24 hours, 0 % went 5x, and 71 % were dead within the day, usually after about 0.2 h. For comparison, 24 % of all Solana alerts doubled. 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.
Past alerts, dated
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
| GrokBot | SOL | $70K | $4400K | 63x | 2026-08-24 |
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
Quick definitions
- Sniper
- A bot or wallet that buys in the first seconds of a launch.
- Slippage
- Price you lose to pool depth when a trade executes.
- FDV
- Fully diluted value: price times total supply, including tokens not yet circulating.
- Boost
- Paid promotion on a DEX screener.
Recent KOTH prints
Snapshot of 2026-09-24: alerts J7’s - Degen Journal pulled from the @gmgnxsolkoth lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- KOTH printed at 14:05 UTC with a $340.5K market cap and $357.3K in the pool, 3 holders.
- At 13:55 UTC the feed caught REDBULL: cap $138.8K, liquidity $146.3K, 7 holders, top 10 holding 0 %.
- WRUSA (03:59 UTC) — $90.8K cap against $54.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 35 %.
- x27 printed at 23:59 UTC with a $66.2K market cap and $12.9K in the pool.
- BITE alerted at 23:23 UTC. Market cap $56.3K, liquidity $17.9K, +1587.5 % over the prior hour.
- At 19:33 UTC the feed caught Qwerty: cap $60.6K, liquidity $32.6K, top 10 holding 0 %.
- SUPERPEPA printed at 18:17 UTC with a $52.3K market cap and $10.1K in the pool.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
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Follow on Telegram
Telegram is where every KOTH alert lands first. These are the verified routes for J7’s - Degen Journal.
@gmgnxsolkothLive KOTH alerts for Solana, as they fire.
@empiresolpumpfunA new pump.fun launch passed the network's first filters: the PumpFun Alerts channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add Launches folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
Questions
What is J7’s - Degen Journal?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches KOTH alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
No token earns trust by appearing in an alert. Run the checks on this page on every contract, every time.
Where do the alerts come from?
They come from the Empire's own pipeline, which reads chain data, launchpads and wallet trackers and posts to its Telegram channels.
How often does a KOTH alert reach 2x?
In the last 7 measured days, 2 % of KOTH alerts on Solana reached 2x within 24 hours (42 tokens). The same share can be very different next week.
