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Desk 1575 · Solana
Bonk Ward
Bonk Ward reads the Volume channel so you can see each alert in context: live data, measured outcomes, and a plain checklist.
On the board now
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Screen: market cap at least $50.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Reading the Volume lane
A Volume alert means traded volume jumped sharply against the token's recent average.
A fast chart can come from real demand or from a few wallets trading with themselves. Bonk Ward uses Volume to find the move and the checks below to explain it.
Bonk Ward tracks Volume because moves show up there first. The desk then compares volume with liquidity, holder count and wallet spread before it treats a move as real.
Quick test: Check whether the move started before or after the first public call. Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total.
The checklist
None of these needs a wallet connection.
- Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block.
- Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
- Size the position so a total loss does not change your week.
- Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended.
- Check holder concentration after excluding pool and burn wallets.
The filter
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice Bonk Ward made for Volume alerts:
- market cap at least $50.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
At build time the lane held 45 recent alerts covering about 13 hours; 13 of them cleared the screen. The passing group sat at a median $974.6K cap with $95.2K in the pool and roughly 2119 holders. Thin pools were common: 9 of 45 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. Median concentration in the lane: 7 % of supply in the top ten wallets.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Recorded alerts
Bonk Ward logged these Volume alerts from the network feed on 2026-09-23. Numbers are the values at alert time.
- 15:14 UTC · fone entered the lane at $4.40M; pool depth $491.0K, 95,161 holders.
- 15:04 UTC · FEELSGOOD entered the lane at $3.72M; pool depth $249.1K, 1,891 holders.
- AMD (14:48 UTC) — $51.2K cap against $27.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 3 %.
- 12:33 UTC · MANIFEST entered the lane at $12.21M; pool depth $579.1K, 62,927 holders.
- fomopay printed at 11:45 UTC with a $304.0K market cap and $85.9K in the pool, 1,650 holders.
- dress alerted at 09:23 UTC. Market cap $77.8K, liquidity $21.2K, 540 holders.
- BOME printed at 04:07 UTC with a $78.58M market cap and $19.08M in the pool, 123,591 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Numbers, not promises
379tokens measured
14 %2x in 24 h
4 %5x in 24 h
81 %dead in 24 h
379 Volume alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 14 % doubled inside 24 hours, 4 % went 5x, and 81 % were dead within the day, usually after about 0.3 h. For comparison, 25 % of all Solana alerts doubled. The measured 2x rate sits below the rest of Solana with 95 % confidence in this window.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
From the XTRACK reports
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARE | Robinhood | $38K | $3700K | 99x | 2026-09-03 |
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
| HeeHaw | SOL | $54K | $1000K | 19x | 2026-09-06 |
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
Picked from the network's dated XTRACK outcome reports. A market-cap multiple is not a trading profit, and most alerted tokens did far worse.
Telegram routes
Pick one route. @empiresolvolume is the direct source for Bonk Ward.
@empiresolvolumeLive Volume alerts for Solana, as they fire.
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Common questions
What is Bonk Ward?
Bonk Ward is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Volume channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
Does Bonk Ward hold or sell tokens it shows?
The desk does not trade from this page and does not take payment from projects for listing them.
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.
What does the chart link do?
It opens a GMGN chart. The link includes our referral code, which can pay the publisher a commission.