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Loading live KOL Calls alerts…
Screen: liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 250 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
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@gmgnxsolkolnewapesA KOL wallet bought a token it had not held before: the KOL New Apes channel.
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What this desk watches
A KOL Calls alert means a followed influencer published a call on the contract.
Some KOLs buy before they post. Some buy after. Bit Apes Calls reads KOL Calls alongside wallet data to see the order of events.
Put simply, influencer calls move thin markets. Bit Apes Calls watches KOL Calls to separate calls that attract lasting holders from calls that attract a quick round trip.
One habit: Watch holder count in the hour after the call; attention that does not turn into holders fades. Find when the KOL's wallet bought compared with the time of the post.
Recorded alerts
A sample from the KOL Calls lane on Solana, recorded by Bit Apes Calls on 2026-09-23. The live board above keeps updating; this log does not.
- LEVERCAT alerted at 15:05 UTC. Market cap $2.16M, liquidity $295.5K, +31.0 % over the prior hour, 5,332 holders.
- 14:24 UTC · KCAT entered the lane at $236.6K; pool depth $60.6K, 797 holders.
- QUEEF printed at 14:03 UTC with a $785.8K market cap and $131.9K in the pool, 476 holders.
- EMBER printed at 12:52 UTC with a $20.75M market cap and $1.82M in the pool, 23,327 holders.
- At 11:46 UTC the feed caught GROK: cap $3.18M, liquidity $281.0K, 520 holders, top 10 holding 14 %.
- SI alerted at 11:04 UTC. Market cap $4.04M, liquidity $523.8K, +24.8 % over the prior hour, 349 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
From the XTRACK reports
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frug | SOL | $29K | $551K | 19x | 2026-08-26 |
| GrokBot | SOL | $70K | $4400K | 63x | 2026-08-24 |
| fone | SOL | $44K | $23800K | 538x | 2026-08-30 |
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
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.
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Screening rule
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen Bit Apes Calls applies to the @empiresolcallers lane:
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- at least 250 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
At build time the lane held 23 recent alerts covering about 5 hours; 6 of them cleared the screen. The passing group sat at a median $3.18M cap with $295.5K in the pool and roughly 797 holders. 4 out of 23 alerts showed a pool smaller than a tenth of the cap — a warning sign on its own. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 33 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
What the record says
18 %2x in 24 h
71 %dead in 24 h
38tokens measured
8 %5x in 24 h
Measured window: 7 days, 38 tokens. 2x within a day: 18 %. 5x within a day: 8 %. Dead within a day: 71 %, usually after about 0.6 h. All Solana topics together: 25 % reached 2x.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
Checks before any trade
The same short routine, every time.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Check the first minutes for same-block buys from linked wallets. |
| 2 | Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast. |
| 3 | Check holder concentration after excluding pool and burn wallets. |
| 4 | Open the deployer wallet and read its earlier launches. |
| 5 | Work from the contract address; tickers repeat across chains and copies. |
Words on this page
- Wash trading
- Trading between linked wallets to inflate volume.
- Slippage
- Price you lose to pool depth when a trade executes.
- Bonding curve
- The launchpad mechanism that sets price from how much supply has been sold so far.
- Mint authority
- Permission to print more tokens, which should be switched off.
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FAQ
What is Bit Apes Calls?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches KOL Calls alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Most new tokens lose their liquidity or most of their value within a day. In the same window 71 % of KOL Calls alerts on Solana died inside 24 hours.
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.
How often does a KOL Calls alert reach 2x?
In the last 7 measured days, 18 % of KOL Calls alerts on Solana reached 2x within 24 hours (38 tokens). The same share can be very different next week.