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Right now on Solana
Loading live Price Surges alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $50.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 100 holders. Charts open on GMGN.
The checklist
Luca Apes runs these checks on each Price Surges alert.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them. |
| 2 | Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker. |
| 3 | Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure. |
| 4 | Test that you can sell a small amount before adding size. |
| 5 | Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly. |
What a Price Surges alert means
A Price Surges alert means a token's price jumped against its recent range.
Luca Apes tracks Price Surges 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 Luca Apes, price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Luca Apes keeps the Price Surges feed open to measure how many do not.
Quick test: Divide 24-hour volume by liquidity. A very high ratio can mean churn between a few wallets. Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total.
Quick definitions
- Freeze authority
- The right to freeze token accounts; if active, your tokens can be locked.
- Holder count
- The number of wallets holding the token; its trend matters more than the number.
- LP burn
- Destroying the pool's LP tokens so liquidity cannot be withdrawn by the creator.
- Graduation
- When a token leaves its launchpad curve and starts trading in an open pool.
Past alerts, dated
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
| PONS | BSC | $20K | $598K | 30x | 2026-09-10 |
| SpaceXcoin | BSC | $34K | $635K | 18x | 2026-08-17 |
| FLORK | BSC | $70K | $5100K | 73x | 2026-09-01 |
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.
Measured outcomes
5 %5x in 24 h
295tokens measured
78 %dead in 24 h
19 %2x in 24 h
Over the last 7 mature days the network alerted 295 tokens in Price Surges on Solana. 19 % reached 2x within 24 hours and 5 % reached 5x; 78 % died inside a day, usually after about 3.4 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.
Join the channels
Luca Apes does not post alerts itself; these Telegram routes do.
@gmgnxpricesurgesEvery Price Surges alert on Solana posts here first.
@gmgnxsoltrendingA token is ranking on the trending boards the desk follows: the Trending channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe verified Solana main group with all alert lanes.
Add Momentum folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
Solana channel folderOne folder with all Solana lanes.
@gmgnx_chatOpen chat for the Empire community.
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The filter
Luca Apes does not show every Price Surges alert. It applies one fixed screen, and the live board above uses the same rule:
- market cap at least $50.0K
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- at least 100 holders
In the 34 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 3 hours), 24 passed this screen. Those that passed had a median market cap of $357.1K, median liquidity of $62.2K and about 793 holders. 7 out of 34 alerts showed a pool smaller than a tenth of the cap — a warning sign on its own. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 23 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Recorded alerts
Luca Apes logged these Price Surges alerts from the network feed on 2026-09-23. Numbers are the values at alert time.
- 15:03 UTC · EWgq entered the lane at $357.1K; pool depth $62.5K, 725 holders.
- At 14:18 UTC the feed caught biketyson: cap $2.11M, liquidity $206.2K, 12,156 holders, top 10 holding 20 %.
- At 14:18 UTC the feed caught GO: cap $150.7K, liquidity $34.9K, 134 holders, top 10 holding 25 %.
- 13:54 UTC · GP entered the lane at $19.67M; pool depth $1.55M, 11,852 holders.
- GOUR (13:27 UTC) — $306.8K cap against $48.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 19 %, +18.6 % over the prior hour.
- JEANGOTH alerted at 12:53 UTC. Market cap $177.1K, liquidity $39.8K, 664 holders.
- At 12:48 UTC the feed caught JEANPHIL: cap $6.91M, liquidity $610.0K, 3,121 holders, top 10 holding 15 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Before you ask
What is Luca Apes?
Luca Apes is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Price Surges channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Join the @gmgnxpricesurges channel on Telegram. It posts every Price Surges alert as it happens.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 78 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
An alert means the token matched a filter. Trust comes only from your own checks.