The Four Stages of a Memecoin: Launch, Dump, Migration, and the Long Fade
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7 min read · 2026-06-14
Blackhat Empire · Big Buys
Follow wallet activity on Solana without the noise. Silk Yard pairs every live alert with the questions to ask before you act.
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Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Telegram is where every Big Buys alert lands first. These are the verified routes for Silk Yard.
A Big Buys alert means a large single purchase hit the token.
Put simply, wallet alerts show what money did, which is harder to fake than a post. Silk Yard follows Big Buys on Solana and asks whose wallets they are and what they did before.
A buy is a fact. The reason behind it is a guess. Silk Yard uses the Big Buys channel for the facts and keeps the guessing for later.
First look: Check whether several buying wallets were funded from one source a few minutes earlier. Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy.
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATS | Robinhood | $10K | $198K | 19x | 2026-08-18 |
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
| MEME | Base | $43K | $248K | 6x | 2026-09-03 |
| astro | Robinhood | $74K | $5600K | 76x | 2026-09-09 |
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.
27 Big Buys alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 19 % doubled inside 24 hours, 4 % went 5x, and 78 % were dead within the day, usually after about 1.5 h. For comparison, 24 % of all Solana alerts doubled.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice Silk Yard made for Big Buys alerts:
At build time the lane held 20 recent alerts covering about 4 hours; 10 of them cleared the screen. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $3.34M, liquidity $488.9K, holders 4536. 5 of the 20 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 18 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Background for this lane, from the Blackhat DYOR library. Silk Yard rotates the list over time.
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Snapshot of 2026-09-24: alerts Silk Yard pulled from the @empiresolbigbuys lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Run these on every contract, in this order.
Compare volume with liquidity and holder growth.
Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended.
Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
Confirm on the chart which pool the price comes from and how deep it is.
Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count.
Silk Yard is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Big Buys channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.
No. The desk shows data and a checking method. It does not recommend buying or selling anything.
Over 7 days of mature data, 19 % reached 2x inside a day. That is a measured past rate, not a forecast.
