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Live FDV Surge alerts
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Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
How Don Mill filters
Don Mill does not show every FDV Surge alert. It applies one fixed screen, and the live board above uses the same rule:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
Checked against the latest 46 alerts in the lane (about 5 hours): 31 passed. The passing group sat at a median $72.4K cap with $16.4K in the pool and roughly 143 holders. 22 out of 46 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 16 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
What this desk watches
A FDV Surge alert means a token's FDV climbed quickly in a few minutes.
In short: price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Don Mill keeps the FDV Surge feed open to measure how many do not.
On Solana, a fast chart can come from real demand or from a few wallets trading with themselves. Don Mill uses FDV Surge to find the move and the checks below to explain it.
First look: 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.
Dated examples from the network
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrokBot | SOL | $70K | $4400K | 63x | 2026-08-24 |
| RETAIL | Robinhood | $19K | $362K | 19x | 2026-09-02 |
| NEKO | Robinhood | $55K | $920K | 17x | 2026-09-05 |
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
Follow on Telegram
Telegram is where every FDV Surge alert lands first. These are the verified routes for Don Mill.
@empiresolfdvEvery FDV Surge alert on Solana posts here first.
@gmgnxpricesurgesA token's price jumped against its recent range: the Price Surges channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add HYPE Radar folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
Solana channel folderThe full Solana channel set in a single Telegram folder.
@gmgnx_chatTalk to other members and the team.
The scoreboard
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.
Our method
Run these on every contract, in this order.
- Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
- See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when.
- Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast.
- Decide your exit before you enter, including the price where you are wrong.
- Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count.
Lane log
Recorded on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. Don Mill keeps a short log so the page shows real alerts even without scripts.
- RUNUP (15:10 UTC) — $689.5K cap against $104.7K liquidity, top 10 holding 27 %, +263.6 % over the prior hour.
- CHICK printed at 14:43 UTC with a $36.3K market cap and $14.3K in the pool, 83 holders.
- FRIC (14:22 UTC) — $304.5K cap against $48.7K liquidity, top 10 holding 17 %, +49.4 % over the prior hour.
- ZBURRITO printed at 13:47 UTC with a $33.9K market cap and $16.7K in the pool, 171 holders.
- CHARIZARD alerted at 13:26 UTC. Market cap $50.6K, liquidity $19.9K, +1258.4 % over the prior hour, 119 holders.
- MIMI printed at 13:24 UTC with a $28.2K market cap and $14.4K in the pool, 316 holders.
- HORSE printed at 10:39 UTC with a $33.1K market cap and $16.4K in the pool, 85 holders.
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. Don Mill rotates the list over time.
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Terms used here
- Multiple
- How many times the market cap grew from the first alert, e.g. 3x.
- Contract address
- The unique on-chain identifier of a token; always verify it instead of the ticker.
- Wash trading
- Fake volume created by one party trading with itself.
- Bundle
- A group of wallets that buy in the same block at launch, often controlled by one party.
FAQ
What is Don Mill?
Don Mill is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the FDV Surge channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
What does the chart link do?
It opens a GMGN chart. The link includes our referral code, which can pay the publisher a commission.
What does 'dead' mean on the scoreboard?
Dead means -80 % from the alert market cap, a cap under $5K, or a drained pool.
Where do the alerts come from?
From the Blackhat Empire alert network: on-chain data, launchpads, screeners and tracked wallets, filtered and posted to Telegram. The live board reads the same feed.