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The scoreboard
The scoreboard does not yet hold enough mature Near Graduation alerts on Solana to publish a rate. The chain-wide figure over 7 days: 25 % of alerts reached 2x within 24 hours and 79 % died within the day.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
Right now on Solana
Loading live Near Graduation alerts…
Screen: liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 100 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Reading the Near Graduation lane
A Near Graduation alert means a launch is nearing the point where it leaves the launchpad curve for a regular pool.
As a rule, launch-stage tokens change fastest. Liquidity is thin, holders are few and one wallet can move the chart. Hardy Trades reads each Near Graduation alert as a starting point for checks, never as a verdict.
Hardy Trades watches the launch lane because most failed tokens fail there. The Near Graduation channel is its raw input; the checks below are the filter.
Start here: Check the top ten holders, the share held by the deployer and whether liquidity is locked or burned before anything else. Look at the holder count trend over the first hour; a flat count with rising volume points to wash trading.
Glossary
- Top-10 share
- How concentrated supply is in the largest holders.
- CTO
- A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
- Liquidity
- Pool depth: the larger it is, the less a single trade moves the price.
- Holder count
- The number of wallets holding the token; its trend matters more than the number.
Follow on Telegram
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Hardy Trades links the routes that fit this lane.
@empiresolneargradEvery Near Graduation alert on Solana posts here first.
@gmgnxsolkothA launch took the top slot on the pump.fun board: the KOTH channel.
Open SOLANA MainAll Solana lanes in one verified group.
Add Launches folderAdds a whole set of verified channels to Telegram in one tap.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
Checks before any trade
The same short routine, every time.
Step 1
Open the deployer wallet and read its earlier launches.
Step 2
Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly.
Step 3
Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
Step 4
Size the position so a total loss does not change your week.
Step 5
Confirm the token cannot be minted again or frozen in your wallet.
Selected history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fone | SOL | $44K | $23800K | 538x | 2026-08-30 |
| BLUEHOUSE | SOL | $39K | $747K | 19x | 2026-08-29 |
| GrokBot | SOL | $70K | $4400K | 63x | 2026-08-24 |
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
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.
How Hardy Trades filters
Hardy Trades narrows the Near Graduation lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 100 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
Checked against the latest 26 alerts in the lane (about 1 hours): 5 passed. The passing group sat at a median $34.9K cap with $22.6K in the pool and roughly 188 holders. 19 out of 26 alerts showed a pool smaller than a tenth of the cap — a warning sign on its own. Median concentration in the lane: 2 % of supply in the top ten wallets.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
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Background for this lane, from the Blackhat DYOR library. Hardy Trades rotates the list over time.
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Lane log
Hardy Trades logged these Near Graduation alerts from the network feed on 2026-09-23. Numbers are the values at alert time.
- At 15:05 UTC the feed caught Tiny: cap $45.4K, liquidity $26.3K, 145 holders, top 10 holding 18 %.
- CX printed at 14:55 UTC with a $34.9K market cap and $22.6K in the pool, 147 holders.
- PROPH alerted at 14:54 UTC. Market cap $37.6K, liquidity $23.6K, 569 holders.
- At 14:48 UTC the feed caught Catalana: cap $29.3K, liquidity $13.9K, 188 holders, top 10 holding 37 %.
- Fund (14:45 UTC) — $27.0K cap against $20.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 25 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Questions
What is Hardy Trades?
Hardy Trades is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Near Graduation 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 @empiresolneargrad channel on Telegram. It posts every Near Graduation alert as it happens.
Does Hardy Trades hold or sell tokens it shows?
The desk does not trade from this page and does not take payment from projects for listing them.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
An alert means the token matched a filter. Trust comes only from your own checks.
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