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Measured outcomes
83 %dead in 24 h
24 %2x in 24 h
6 %5x in 24 h
115tokens measured
Measured window: 7 days, 115 tokens. 2x within a day: 24 %. 5x within a day: 6 %. Dead within a day: 83 %, usually after about 0.7 h. All Solana topics together: 25 % reached 2x. The difference from the rest of Solana is still inside the noise; more data is needed before calling it better or worse.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
The live feed
Loading live KOL New Apes alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 100 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
About this desk
A KOL New Apes alert means a KOL wallet bought a token it had not held before.
Influencer calls move thin markets. Chessy Alpha watches KOL New Apes to separate calls that attract lasting holders from calls that attract a quick round trip.
Some KOLs buy before they post. Some buy after. Chessy Alpha reads KOL New Apes alongside wallet data to see the order of events.
One habit: Find when the KOL's wallet bought compared with the time of the post. Check how the KOL's last ten calls did one day later, not one hour later.
How we read a contract
Chessy Alpha runs these checks on each KOL New Apes alert.
Step 1
Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count.
Step 2
Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window.
Step 3
Decide your exit before you enter, including the price where you are wrong.
Step 4
Use an amount you can lose completely without stress.
Step 5
Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
Glossary
- CTO
- Community takeover: holders relaunch a token after the team leaves.
- Liquidity
- The value sitting in the trading pool; it limits how much you can buy or sell without moving price far.
- Dev wallet
- The creator address and the supply it still controls.
- Wash trading
- Fake volume created by one party trading with itself.
What passes here
Chessy Alpha does not show every KOL New Apes alert. It applies one fixed screen, and the live board above uses the same rule:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 100 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
Checked against the latest 18 alerts in the lane (about 5 hours): 10 passed. Those that passed had a median market cap of $1.24M, median liquidity of $295.5K and about 3182 holders. 1 of the 18 lane alerts had liquidity below a tenth of their market cap, which makes exits expensive. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 33 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Study list
Background for this lane, from the Blackhat DYOR library. Chessy Alpha rotates the list over time.
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Dated examples from the network
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 2026-08-24 |
| LOOKSMAX | SOL | $30K | $2400K | 77x | 2026-08-16 |
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
Where the alerts post
Chessy Alpha does not post alerts itself; these Telegram routes do.
@gmgnxsolkolnewapesLive KOL New Apes alerts for Solana, as they fire.
@empiresolkolfomoInfluencer mentions of one token stacked up quickly: the KOL FOMO channel.
Open SOLANA MainAll Solana lanes in one verified group.
Add KOL Callers folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
Solana channel folderThe full Solana channel set in a single Telegram folder.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
Recent KOL New Apes prints
Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts Chessy Alpha pulled from the @gmgnxsolkolnewapes lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- LEVERCAT alerted at 15:05 UTC. Market cap $2.16M, liquidity $295.5K, +31.0 % over the prior hour, 5,332 holders.
- QUEEF printed at 14:03 UTC with a $785.8K market cap and $131.9K in the pool, 476 holders.
- GME alerted at 13:27 UTC. Market cap $4.02M, liquidity $1.43M, -0.4 % over the prior hour, 68,448 holders.
- At 11:53 UTC the feed caught ARCHIBROWN: cap $631.4K, liquidity $83.0K, 2,359 holders, top 10 holding 25 %.
- GIGACAT printed at 11:46 UTC with a $343.1K market cap and $51.6K in the pool, 1,289 holders.
- 11:27 UTC · pill entered the lane at $1.11M; pool depth $144.2K, 3,182 holders.
- At 11:04 UTC the feed caught SI: cap $4.04M, liquidity $523.8K, 349 holders, top 10 holding 7 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Common questions
What is Chessy Alpha?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches KOL New Apes alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
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.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Open the Telegram link on this page for @gmgnxsolkolnewapes. Alerts arrive there first.
Does Chessy Alpha hold or sell tokens it shows?
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.