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Empire desk · Solana
Mega Lab
Summary. What moved on Solana in the Trending lane, what the record says about it, and how to check a contract in ten minutes.
1. Alerts as they land
Loading live Trending alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
2. What this desk watches
A Trending alert means a token entered the trending lists that the network reads.
Momentum alerts show that something is moving, not why. Mega Lab reads Trending on Solana as a question: who is driving the move, and can the pool absorb it?
Price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Mega Lab keeps the Trending feed open to measure how many do not.
Quick test: Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total. Divide 24-hour volume by liquidity. A very high ratio can mean churn between a few wallets.
3. Checks before any trade
Mega Lab runs these checks on each Trending alert.
Step 1
Use an amount you can lose completely without stress.
Step 2
Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it.
Step 3
Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
Step 4
Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window.
Step 5
Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
4. Recent Trending prints
Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts Mega Lab pulled from the @gmgnxsoltrending lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- RUNUP (15:10 UTC) — $493.6K cap against $52.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 27 %, +247.0 % over the prior hour.
- 14:51 UTC · MUCHWOW entered the lane at $520.9K; pool depth $41.3K, 1,224 holders.
- swarms alerted at 14:18 UTC. Market cap $7.98M, liquidity $772.7K, 40,211 holders.
- WOW alerted at 13:33 UTC. Market cap $52.7K, liquidity $33.5K, 97 holders.
- At 12:47 UTC the feed caught metball: cap $211.3K, liquidity $24.4K, 555 holders, top 10 holding 33 %.
- Witch (12:16 UTC) — $64.2K cap against $8.7K liquidity, top 10 holding 37 %, -11.7 % over the prior hour.
- 11:39 UTC · LMEOW entered the lane at $164.2K; pool depth $21.3K, 785 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
5. Join the channels
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Mega Lab links the routes that fit this lane.
@gmgnxsoltrendingThe source channel for this desk: all Trending prints on Solana.
@empiresolfomoActivity around one token spread across many unrelated sources: the FOMO WEB channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe verified Solana main group with all alert lanes.
Add HYPE Radar folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
Solana channel folderOne folder with all Solana lanes.
@gmgnx_chatOpen chat for the Empire community.
6. Study list
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7. The filter
Mega Lab narrows the Trending lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
In the 48 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 4 hours), 41 passed this screen. Those that passed had a median market cap of $166.4K, median liquidity of $29.0K and about 613 holders. 9 of the 48 lane alerts had liquidity below a tenth of their market cap, which makes exits expensive. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 32 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
8. Measured outcomes
7 %5x in 24 h
517tokens measured
19 %2x in 24 h
55 %dead in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 517 tokens in Trending on Solana. 19 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 7 % reached 5x; 55 % died inside a day, usually after about 8.1 h. The Solana average for all topics was 25 % reaching 2x. 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.
9. Dated examples from the network
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
| PARE | Robinhood | $38K | $3700K | 99x | 2026-09-03 |
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
| MEME | Base | $43K | $248K | 6x | 2026-09-03 |
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.
10. Common questions
What is Mega Lab?
Mega Lab is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Trending channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
What does 'dead' mean on the scoreboard?
Dead means -80 % from the alert market cap, a cap under $5K, or a drained pool.
Does Mega Lab hold or sell tokens it shows?
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.
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.
11. Sister desks
- Xelf’s Gambles — Trending on Solana
- 简约dao Call — Trending on Robinhood Chain
- Trust Callers — Trending on BNB Chain
