Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
What a CEX-Funded Buys alert means
A CEX-Funded Buys alert means wallets funded straight from an exchange bought in.
As a rule, wallet alerts show what money did, which is harder to fake than a post. Wall Street Diary follows CEX-Funded Buys on Solana and asks whose wallets they are and what they did before.
Wall Street Diary 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.
Start here: Compare the buy size with pool liquidity; a buy that moves price far is also hard to exit. Check whether several buying wallets were funded from one source a few minutes earlier.
A ten-minute check
None of these needs a wallet connection.
Step 1
Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
Step 2
Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it.
Step 3
Confirm the token cannot be minted again or frozen in your wallet.
Step 4
Decide your exit before you enter, including the price where you are wrong.
Step 5
Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast.
The desk's screen
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice Wall Street Diary made for CEX-Funded Buys alerts:
market cap at least $20.0K
liquidity at least $10.0K
at least 50 holders
top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
In the 31 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 3 days), 17 passed this screen. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $882.9K, liquidity $160.3K, holders 696. 5 out of 31 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 22 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
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7-day record
The scoreboard does not yet hold enough mature CEX-Funded Buys 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.
Recorded alerts
Wall Street Diary's lane log for 2026-09-23. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
CALI (14:03 UTC) — $1.20M cap against $298.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 23 %, -17.7 % over the prior hour.
10:55 UTC · X7 entered the lane at $882.9K; pool depth $215.6K, 196 holders.
SWBR alerted at 05:54 UTC. Market cap $153.6K, liquidity $32.1K, -18.9 % over the prior hour, 1,388 holders.
At 05:04 UTC the feed caught Tilcayo: cap $1.30M, liquidity $210.3K, 4,090 holders, top 10 holding 21 %.
Stamp printed at 09:53 UTC with a $584.2K market cap and $161.3K in the pool, 311 holders.
HUHCAT (00:36 UTC) — $260.2K cap against $71.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 21 %.
JEANPHIL alerted at 23:08 UTC. Market cap $4.40M, liquidity $998.9K, -9.0 % over the prior hour, 5,068 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Quick definitions
CTO
A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
FDV
Value of the full supply at the current price.
Fresh wallet
A wallet with little or no history before the buy.
Multiple
How many times the market cap grew from the first alert, e.g. 3x.
Wall Street Diary 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.
What does 'dead' mean on the scoreboard?
Dead means -80 % from the alert market cap, a cap under $5K, or a drained pool.
Is Wall Street Diary financial advice?
No. Alerts are observations from public data. Every token here can lose all of its value, and you decide what to do with the information.
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