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Solana · Volume desk
Onyx Yard
Summary. Onyx Yard is a public desk of the Blackhat Crypto Empire. It watches market momentum on Solana and keeps score on what alerts did afterwards.
1. The lane
A Volume alert means a token printed volume far above its short-term baseline.
Onyx Yard 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.
For Onyx Yard, price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Onyx Yard keeps the Volume feed open to measure how many do not.
Start here: Check whether the move started before or after the first public call. Divide 24-hour volume by liquidity. A very high ratio can mean churn between a few wallets.
2. Latest Solana prints
Loading live Volume alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, at least 50 holders. Charts open on GMGN.
3. How these alerts played out
82 %dead in 24 h
3 %5x in 24 h
434tokens measured
13 %2x in 24 h
Measured window: 7 days, 434 tokens. 2x within a day: 13 %. 5x within a day: 3 %. Dead within a day: 82 %, usually after about 0.2 h. All Solana topics together: 24 % reached 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 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
4. Glossary
- Market cap
- Price multiplied by circulating supply; on new tokens it can change several times in an hour.
- CTO
- A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
- Freeze authority
- Permission to lock holders' balances.
- Slippage
- The gap between the expected price and the fill price.
5. Read next
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6. Recent Volume prints
Onyx Yard's lane log for 2026-09-24. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- CALI (23:05 UTC) — $1.95M cap against $149.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 24 %, +24.1 % over the prior hour.
- BOTIFY alerted at 20:25 UTC. Market cap $946.3K, liquidity $82.1K, -16.7 % over the prior hour, 446 holders.
- At 17:23 UTC the feed caught Levered: cap $41.0K, liquidity $5.2K, 70 holders, top 10 holding 48 %.
- SEND alerted at 16:12 UTC. Market cap $26.8K, liquidity $8.1K, 215 holders.
- 11:45 UTC · fomopay entered the lane at $304.0K; pool depth $85.9K, 1,650 holders.
- 05:43 UTC · x27 entered the lane at $106.6K; pool depth $29.4K, 653 holders.
- 05:17 UTC · 21M entered the lane at $19.3K; pool depth $12.5K, 51 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
7. Dated examples from the network
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLUEHOUSE | SOL | $39K | $747K | 19x | 2026-08-29 |
| RSRV | Robinhood | $88K | $1600K | 18x | 2026-09-06 |
| SHROOM | Robinhood | $68K | $6300K | 93x | 2026-09-04 |
| UBIK | Robinhood | $67K | $9100K | 135x | 2026-09-02 |
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.
8. Get the alerts on Telegram
Onyx Yard does not post alerts itself; these Telegram routes do.
@empiresolvolumeThe source channel for this desk: all Volume prints on Solana.
@empiresolpumptrendA launch is trending on pump.fun itself: the Pump Trending channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add HYPE Radar folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
Solana channel folderOne folder with all Solana lanes.
@gmgnx_chatTalk to other members and the team.
9. Screening rule
Onyx Yard does not show every Volume alert. It applies one fixed screen, and the live board above uses the same rule:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- at least 50 holders
Checked against the latest 42 alerts in the lane (about 25 hours): 28 passed. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $72.6K, liquidity $29.4K, holders 489. Thin pools were common: 4 of 42 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 13 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
10. Checks before any trade
Run these on every contract, in this order.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Check the first minutes for same-block buys from linked wallets. |
| 2 | Check holder concentration after excluding pool and burn wallets. |
| 3 | Work from the contract address; tickers repeat across chains and copies. |
| 4 | Confirm on the chart which pool the price comes from and how deep it is. |
| 5 | Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it. |
| 6 | Size the position so a total loss does not change your week. |
11. Before you ask
What is Onyx Yard?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Volume alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
Where do the alerts come from?
From the Blackhat Empire alert network: on-chain data, launchpads, screeners and tracked wallets, filtered and posted to Telegram. The live board reads the same feed.
How often does a Volume alert reach 2x?
Over 7 days of mature data, 13 % reached 2x inside a day. That is a measured past rate, not a forecast.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Join the @empiresolvolume channel on Telegram. It posts every Volume alert as it happens.
12. Sister desks
- Moon Club — Combined HYPE on Robinhood Chain
- The DeFi Investor — Callers 5+ on BNB Chain
- Slingdeez — KOL Calls on Solana
