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The live feed
Loading live Big Buys alerts…
Screen: liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
The lane
A Big Buys alert means one buy of unusual size went through.
Fez 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.
In short: when tracked wallets move, Big Buys prints it. Fez adds the context: size against liquidity, wallet history and what those wallets did after.
First look: Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy. Compare the buy size with pool liquidity; a buy that moves price far is also hard to exit.
Recent Big Buys prints
Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts Fez pulled from the @empiresolbigbuys lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- JEANPHIL (15:04 UTC) — $6.18M cap against $775.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 15 %, -9.0 % over the prior hour.
- PUMPCADE (15:03 UTC) — $9.81M cap against $424.7K liquidity, top 10 holding 12 %, -0.8 % over the prior hour.
- LEVERCAT alerted at 14:55 UTC. Market cap $2.27M, liquidity $291.1K, +31.0 % over the prior hour, 5,343 holders.
- PAID alerted at 14:48 UTC. Market cap $10.06M, liquidity $1.77M, -7.0 % over the prior hour, 32,602 holders.
- At 14:11 UTC the feed caught fone: cap $4.67M, liquidity $692.1K, 24,025 holders, top 10 holding 23 %.
- GROK printed at 12:12 UTC with a $3.48M market cap and $374.4K in the pool, 648 holders.
- EMBER (10:46 UTC) — $22.35M cap against $1.79M liquidity, top 10 holding 24 %, +2.7 % over the prior hour.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
What the record says
8 %5x in 24 h
27 %2x in 24 h
26tokens measured
81 %dead in 24 h
Measured window: 7 days, 26 tokens. 2x within a day: 27 %. 5x within a day: 8 %. Dead within a day: 81 %, usually after about 2 h. All Solana topics together: 25 % reached 2x.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
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Our method
Ten minutes, before any money moves.
Step 1
Size the position so a total loss does not change your week.
Step 2
Open the deployer wallet and read its earlier launches.
Step 3
Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count.
Step 4
Confirm the token cannot be minted again or frozen in your wallet.
Step 5
Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
Join the channels
Telegram is where every Big Buys alert lands first. These are the verified routes for Fez.
@empiresolbigbuysThe source channel for this desk: all Big Buys prints on Solana.
@empiresolmultibuysSeveral tracked wallets bought the same token close together: the Multibuys channel.
Open SOLANA MainAll Solana lanes in one verified group.
Add Single Buys folderAdds a whole set of verified channels to Telegram in one tap.
Solana channel folderThe full Solana channel set in a single Telegram folder.
@gmgnx_chatOpen chat for the Empire community.
Dated examples from the network
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
| XYZ | SOL | $25K | $418K | 17x | 2026-08-23 |
| LOOKSMAX | SOL | $30K | $2400K | 77x | 2026-08-16 |
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.
Screening rule
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen Fez applies to the @empiresolbigbuys lane:
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 50 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
Checked against the latest 27 alerts in the lane (about 4 hours): 12 passed. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $6.18M, liquidity $533.1K, holders 5343. Thin pools were common: 10 of 27 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 24 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
FAQ
What is Fez?
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.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Open the Telegram link on this page for @empiresolbigbuys. Alerts arrive there first.
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.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 81 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.
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