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Alerts as they land
Loading live CEX-Funded Buys alerts…
Screen: liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 100 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
The lane
A CEX-Funded Buys alert means buyers whose funds came directly from a centralized exchange appeared.
Ivory Alpha reads on-chain buying as evidence, with limits. One wallet can split into ten; a fresh wallet can belong to the deployer. The checks below cover both cases.
As a rule, when tracked wallets move, CEX-Funded Buys prints it. Ivory Alpha adds the context: size against liquidity, wallet history and what those wallets did after.
First look: Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy. Check whether several buying wallets were funded from one source a few minutes earlier.
Network history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHROOM | Robinhood | $68K | $6300K | 93x | 2026-09-04 |
| BRIAN | Robinhood | $33K | $13200K | 400x | 2026-09-10 |
| NEKO | Robinhood | $55K | $920K | 17x | 2026-09-05 |
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
Alert log · 2026-09-23
A sample from the CEX-Funded Buys lane on Solana, recorded by Ivory Alpha on 2026-09-23. The live board above keeps updating; this log does not.
- MONKINU (11:29 UTC) — $1.10M cap against $82.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 23 %, -2.4 % over the prior hour.
- At 11:12 UTC the feed caught QUEEF: cap $805.7K, liquidity $139.9K, 148 holders, top 10 holding 16 %.
- X7 printed at 10:55 UTC with a $882.9K market cap and $215.6K in the pool, 196 holders.
- LYNKS printed at 13:17 UTC with a $628.1K market cap and $88.2K in the pool, 884 holders.
- Stamp (09:53 UTC) — $584.2K cap against $161.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 15 %.
- At 03:12 UTC the feed caught LinkedInu: cap $1.40M, liquidity $160.3K, 188 holders, top 10 holding 21 %.
- HUHCAT (00:36 UTC) — $260.2K cap against $71.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 21 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Study list
Background for this lane, from the Blackhat DYOR library. Ivory Alpha rotates the list over time.
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How we read a contract
Ten minutes, before any money moves.
Step 1
Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended.
Step 2
See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when.
Step 3
Compare volume with liquidity and holder growth.
Step 4
Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
Step 5
Confirm the token cannot be minted again or frozen in your wallet.
Step 6
Confirm on the chart which pool the price comes from and how deep it is.
Follow on Telegram
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Ivory Alpha links the routes that fit this lane.
@empiresolcexbuysThe source channel for this desk: all CEX-Funded Buys prints on Solana.
@empiresolmultibuysSeveral tracked wallets bought the same token close together: the Multibuys channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add Multibuys folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
Solana channel folderEvery verified Solana alert channel, added as one folder.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
What passes here
Ivory Alpha narrows the CEX-Funded Buys lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- at least 100 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
Checked against the latest 31 alerts in the lane (about 3 days): 19 passed. The passing group sat at a median $805.7K cap with $139.9K in the pool and roughly 696 holders. 5 of the 31 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 22 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Measured outcomes
No separate rate is published for this lane yet. Across all Solana topics in the last 7 days, 25 % reached 2x inside a day and 79 % died inside a day.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
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Questions
What is Ivory Alpha?
Ivory Alpha is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the CEX-Funded Buys channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
Is Ivory Alpha financial advice?
No. The desk shows data and a checking method. It does not recommend buying or selling anything.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
An alert means the token matched a filter. Trust comes only from your own checks.
What does the chart link do?
It opens a GMGN chart. The link includes our referral code, which can pay the publisher a commission.
