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Loading live Fresh Wallet Buys alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, at least 250 holders. Charts open on GMGN.
7-day record
34 %5x in 24 h
36 %dead in 24 h
143tokens measured
59 %2x in 24 h
143 Fresh Wallet Buys alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 59 % doubled inside 24 hours, 34 % went 5x, and 36 % were dead within the day, usually after about 10.8 h. For comparison, 25 % of all Solana alerts doubled. The measured 2x rate is above the rest of Solana with 95 % confidence for this window.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
About this desk
A Fresh Wallet Buys alert means newly created wallets bought the token.
Wallet alerts show what money did, which is harder to fake than a post. Obsidian Den follows Fresh Wallet Buys on Solana and asks whose wallets they are and what they did before.
A buy is a fact. The reason behind it is a guess. Obsidian Den uses the Fresh Wallet Buys channel for the facts and keeps the guessing for later.
Quick test: Compare the buy size with pool liquidity; a buy that moves price far is also hard to exit. Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy.
Terms used here
- Boost
- Paid promotion on a DEX screener.
- KOL
- Key opinion leader: an influencer whose posts move attention.
- Rug pull
- When insiders remove liquidity or dump supply and the price collapses.
- CTO
- A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
Lane log
Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts Obsidian Den pulled from the @empiresolfreshbuys lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- 15:10 UTC · RUNUP entered the lane at $675.8K; pool depth $50.1K, 262 holders.
- Inu alerted at 14:54 UTC. Market cap $194.6K, liquidity $97.0K, -5.3 % over the prior hour, 262 holders.
- GOUR (14:47 UTC) — $151.4K cap against $37.1K liquidity, top 10 holding 31 %, +18.6 % over the prior hour.
- GROK alerted at 14:03 UTC. Market cap $2.90M, liquidity $269.5K, -28.3 % over the prior hour, 1,106 holders.
- JEANPHIL alerted at 13:54 UTC. Market cap $7.80M, liquidity $815.5K, -9.0 % over the prior hour, 4,019 holders.
- GIGACAT alerted at 13:44 UTC. Market cap $490.5K, liquidity $79.0K, -50.6 % over the prior hour, 2,233 holders.
- At 13:02 UTC the feed caught Witch: cap $50.5K, liquidity $15.7K, 313 holders, top 10 holding 42 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
How we read a contract
Ten minutes, before any money moves.
- Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block.
- Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count.
- Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them.
- See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when.
- Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
Guides for this lane
If you follow @empiresolfreshbuys, these guides explain the checks behind it.
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Follow on Telegram
Telegram is where every Fresh Wallet Buys alert lands first. These are the verified routes for Obsidian Den.
@empiresolfreshbuysThe source channel for this desk: all Fresh Wallet Buys prints on Solana.
@empiresolexitsWallets with a strong past record sold: the Smart Money Exits 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_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
The desk's screen
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen Obsidian Den applies to the @empiresolfreshbuys lane:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- at least 250 holders
At build time the lane held 39 recent alerts covering about 3 hours; 24 of them cleared the screen. Those that passed had a median market cap of $345.0K, median liquidity of $70.1K and about 567 holders. Thin pools were common: 3 of 39 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 27 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Selected history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSRV | Robinhood | $88K | $1600K | 18x | 2026-09-06 |
| PARE | Robinhood | $38K | $3700K | 99x | 2026-09-03 |
| CATS | Robinhood | $10K | $198K | 19x | 2026-08-18 |
| PICKLES | Robinhood | $21K | $1200K | 58x | 2026-09-01 |
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.
Common questions
What is Obsidian Den?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Fresh Wallet Buys alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 36 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.
Does Obsidian Den hold or sell tokens it shows?
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.
What does the chart link do?
It opens the token on GMGN. Chart links carry the publisher's referral code, so the network may earn a commission if you trade there.