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Right now on Solana
Loading live Paid Boosts alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $50.0K, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Reading the Paid Boosts lane
A Paid Boosts alert means someone paid to promote the token on a DEX screener.
Casino Court watches the Paid Boosts channel because team behaviour often explains a chart better than the chart does.
Deployer moves, relaunches and paid promotion are all public on Solana. Casino Court collects them from Paid Boosts and checks them against holders and liquidity.
Start here: Read the deployer's history: earlier launches, how long they lasted and how they ended. Confirm new social links point to accounts with real history, not accounts created that day.
Recorded alerts
Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts Casino Court pulled from the @empiresolboosts lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- XCAT (13:07 UTC) — $265.3K cap against $52.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 21 %.
- 12:03 UTC · UPTOBER entered the lane at $132.5K; pool depth $32.6K, 373 holders.
- INU printed at 08:05 UTC with a $576.5K market cap and $97.9K in the pool, 2,332 holders.
- At 06:42 UTC the feed caught todd: cap $64.6K, liquidity $21.2K, 346 holders, top 10 holding 23 %.
- XRP (06:01 UTC) — $77.9K cap against $27.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 25 %.
- POKEMON (04:01 UTC) — $655.9K cap against $69.6K liquidity, top 10 holding 25 %.
- 00:47 UTC · DEX entered the lane at $987.2K; pool depth $619.8K, 1,139 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Selected history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
| VAULT | Robinhood | $44K | $3400K | 77x | 2026-08-30 |
| HeeHaw | SOL | $54K | $1000K | 19x | 2026-09-06 |
| FLORK | BSC | $70K | $5100K | 73x | 2026-09-01 |
Selected dated examples from XTRACK reports: multiple = tracked market cap at the report date divided by the market cap at first alert. These are not typical results and not realised profits.
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Screening rule
Casino Court narrows the Paid Boosts lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
- market cap at least $50.0K
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
Checked against the latest 47 alerts in the lane (about 15 hours): 32 passed. Those that passed had a median market cap of $223.4K, median liquidity of $34.7K and about 450 holders. 5 of the 47 lane alerts had liquidity below a tenth of their market cap, which makes exits expensive. Median concentration in the lane: 21 % 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.
How these alerts played out
144tokens measured
6 %5x in 24 h
79 %dead in 24 h
22 %2x in 24 h
Measured window: 7 days, 144 tokens. 2x within a day: 22 %. 5x within a day: 6 %. Dead within a day: 79 %, usually after about 7 h. All Solana topics together: 25 % reached 2x. The difference from the rest of Solana is still inside the noise; more data is needed before calling it better or worse.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
A ten-minute check
Run these on every contract, in this order.
- See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when.
- Write down the level that proves you wrong before any buy.
- Work from the contract address; tickers repeat across chains and copies.
- Confirm on the chart which pool the price comes from and how deep it is.
- Compare volume with liquidity and holder growth.
- Check the first minutes for same-block buys from linked wallets.
Questions
What is Casino Court?
Casino Court is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Paid Boosts 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.
Where do the alerts come from?
They come from the Empire's own pipeline, which reads chain data, launchpads and wallet trackers and posts to its Telegram channels.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 79 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.