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What this desk watches
A KOTH alert means a launch took the top slot on the pump.fun board.
As a rule, launch-stage tokens change fastest. Liquidity is thin, holders are few and one wallet can move the chart. B4ochan - Trading Journey reads each KOTH alert as a starting point for checks, never as a verdict.
B4ochan - Trading Journey 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: Compare market cap with liquidity. A small pool under a large cap means a thin exit. Check the top ten holders, the share held by the deployer and whether liquidity is locked or burned before anything else.
Alerts as they land
Loading live KOTH alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 100 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Terms used here
- Sniper
- An address that buys at the first possible moment after launch.
- Wash trading
- Fake volume created by one party trading with itself.
- FDV
- Value of the full supply at the current price.
- Liquidity
- Pool depth: the larger it is, the less a single trade moves the price.
Past alerts, dated
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrokBot | SOL | $70K | $4400K | 63x | 2026-08-24 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 2026-08-24 |
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
| fone | SOL | $44K | $23800K | 538x | 2026-08-30 |
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.
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Follow on Telegram
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. B4ochan - Trading Journey links the routes that fit this lane.
@gmgnxsolkothEvery KOTH alert on Solana posts here first.
@empiresolneargradA launch is nearing the point where it leaves the launchpad curve for a regular pool: the Near Graduation 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_chatTalk to other members and the team.
How we read a contract
Run these on every contract, in this order.
- Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them.
- Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block.
- Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
- Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
- See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when.
Recent KOTH prints
B4ochan - Trading Journey logged these KOTH alerts from the network feed on 2026-09-24. Numbers are the values at alert time.
- At 01:55 UTC the feed caught sendor: cap $82.2K, liquidity $6.9K, 6 holders, top 10 holding 0 %.
- KOTH printed at 01:32 UTC with a $214.3K market cap and $4.6K in the pool, 2 holders.
- WOW alerted at 21:06 UTC. Market cap $212.2K, liquidity $6.7K, -4.2 % over the prior hour, 2 holders.
- TOKIANAS alerted at 19:42 UTC. Market cap $53.5K, liquidity $6.9K, +25.8 % over the prior hour, 2 holders.
- At 09:19 UTC the feed caught BOSS: cap $215.4K, liquidity $7.0K, 4 holders, top 10 holding 0 %.
- COIN printed at 06:22 UTC with a $56.7K market cap and $6.0K in the pool, 3 holders.
- At 20:32 UTC the feed caught PBC: cap $149.1K, liquidity $7.3K, 7 holders, top 10 holding 0 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Numbers, not promises
42tokens measured
71 %dead in 24 h
0 %5x in 24 h
2 %2x in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 42 tokens in KOTH on Solana. 2 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 0 % reached 5x; 71 % died inside a day, usually after about 0.2 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.
Screening rule
B4ochan - Trading Journey does not show every KOTH alert. It applies one fixed screen, and the live board above uses the same rule:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 100 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
In the 47 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 38 hours), 1 passed this screen. Those that passed had a median market cap of $91.7K, median liquidity of $26.1K and about 5046 holders. Thin pools were common: 31 of 47 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 0 %.
Fewer than three recent alerts passed, so the lane log below shows unfiltered alerts for context.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
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Questions
What is B4ochan - Trading Journey?
B4ochan - Trading Journey is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the KOTH channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 71 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.
Does B4ochan - Trading Journey hold or sell tokens it shows?
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.
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.