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Why Trending
A Trending alert means a token is ranking on the trending boards the desk follows.
A fast chart can come from real demand or from a few wallets trading with themselves. Joyboy’s Calls uses Trending to find the move and the checks below to explain it.
Joyboy’s Calls tracks Trending because moves show up there first. The desk then compares volume with liquidity, holder count and wallet spread before it treats a move as real.
One habit: Check whether the move started before or after the first public call. Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total.
The live feed
Loading live Trending alerts…
Screen: liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 250 holders. Charts open on GMGN.
Screening rule
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen Joyboy’s Calls applies to the @gmgnxsoltrending lane:
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 250 holders
In the 48 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 4 hours), 32 passed this screen. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $243.0K, liquidity $41.3K, holders 1010. Thin pools were common: 9 of 48 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 32 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
The checklist
Ten minutes, before any money moves.
- Test that you can sell a small amount before adding size.
- Confirm the token cannot be minted again or frozen in your wallet.
- Size the position so a total loss does not change your week.
- Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended.
- Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block.
- Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast.
Alert log · 2026-09-23
Joyboy’s Calls's lane log for 2026-09-23. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- RUNUP (15:10 UTC) — $493.6K cap against $52.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 27 %, +247.0 % over the prior hour.
- At 14:43 UTC the feed caught chick: cap $31.1K, liquidity $6.4K, 278 holders, top 10 holding 48 %.
- GOWF (14:32 UTC) — $296.0K cap against $63.4K liquidity, top 10 holding 12 %, +185.0 % over the prior hour.
- At 14:03 UTC the feed caught PUMPCAT: cap $189.5K, liquidity $48.4K, 391 holders, top 10 holding 20 %.
- WALTER printed at 13:52 UTC with a $648.4K market cap and $60.8K in the pool, 1,451 holders.
- AQUA (11:56 UTC) — $1.49M cap against $128.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 21 %, -18.5 % over the prior hour.
- OffShiba (11:43 UTC) — $68.9K cap against $20.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 12 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Guides for this lane
If you follow @gmgnxsoltrending, these guides explain the checks behind it.
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Where the alerts post
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Joyboy’s Calls links the routes that fit this lane.
@gmgnxsoltrendingEvery Trending alert on Solana posts here first.
@gmgnxpricesurgesPrice moved sharply inside a short window: the Price Surges channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe verified Solana main group with all alert lanes.
Add Momentum folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
What the record says
517tokens measured
7 %5x in 24 h
19 %2x in 24 h
55 %dead in 24 h
517 Trending alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 19 % doubled inside 24 hours, 7 % went 5x, and 55 % were dead within the day, usually after about 8.1 h. For comparison, 25 % of all Solana alerts doubled. The measured 2x rate sits below the rest of Solana with 95 % confidence in this window.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
Network history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX | Base | $22K | $933K | 42x | 2026-09-06 |
| PICKLES | Robinhood | $21K | $1200K | 58x | 2026-09-01 |
| NEKO | Robinhood | $55K | $920K | 17x | 2026-09-05 |
| RKST | Robinhood | $82K | $8300K | 100x | 2026-09-06 |
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.
Questions
What is Joyboy’s Calls?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Trending alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
What does the chart link do?
It opens a GMGN chart. The link includes our referral code, which can pay the publisher a commission.
Can I trust a token that appears here?
No token earns trust by appearing in an alert. Run the checks on this page on every contract, every time.
What does 'dead' mean on the scoreboard?
A token counts as dead when its market cap falls 80 % or more from the first alert, drops under $5K, or its pool loses its liquidity.
Sister desks
- Ricks Calls — Callers 20+ on BNB Chain
- Bgbcn — Big Buys on Solana
- Wojak Mill — XTRACK on Robinhood Chain