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Desk 1044 · Solana
Pain Crypto - NPNG
Follow new launches on Solana without the noise. Pain Crypto - NPNG pairs every live alert with the questions to ask before you act.
From the @empiresolneargrad lane
Pain Crypto - NPNG's lane log for 2026-09-23. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- Tiny printed at 15:05 UTC with a $45.4K market cap and $26.3K in the pool, 145 holders.
- CX printed at 14:55 UTC with a $34.9K market cap and $22.6K in the pool, 147 holders.
- PROPH alerted at 14:54 UTC. Market cap $37.6K, liquidity $23.6K, 569 holders.
- At 14:48 UTC the feed caught Catalana: cap $29.3K, liquidity $13.9K, 188 holders, top 10 holding 37 %.
- At 14:45 UTC the feed caught Fund: cap $27.0K, liquidity $20.0K, 256 holders, top 10 holding 25 %.
- CHICK alerted at 14:41 UTC. Market cap $25.2K, liquidity $18.0K, -68.1 % over the prior hour, 83 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Fresh from @empiresolneargrad
Loading live Near Graduation alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 50 holders. Charts open on GMGN.
What a Near Graduation alert means
A Near Graduation alert means a token is close to finishing its bonding curve and moving to an open pool.
For Pain Crypto - NPNG, launch-stage tokens change fastest. Liquidity is thin, holders are few and one wallet can move the chart. Pain Crypto - NPNG reads each Near Graduation alert as a starting point for checks, never as a verdict.
A curve that completes tells you demand existed. It does not tell you who holds the supply. Pain Crypto - NPNG pairs every Near Graduation print with a look at holders and liquidity.
Quick test: Look at the holder count trend over the first hour; a flat count with rising volume points to wash trading. Check the top ten holders, the share held by the deployer and whether liquidity is locked or burned before anything else.
Words on this page
- Contract address
- The address that identifies exactly one token.
- Graduation
- The moment a launchpad token completes its curve and liquidity moves to a regular pool.
- Multiple
- Current or peak market cap divided by the market cap at the first alert.
- KOL
- Key opinion leader: an influencer whose posts move attention.
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The filter
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice Pain Crypto - NPNG made for Near Graduation alerts:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 50 holders
In the 26 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 1 hours), 6 passed this screen. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $34.9K, liquidity $22.6K, holders 188. 19 of the 26 lane alerts had liquidity below a tenth of their market cap, which makes exits expensive. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 2 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
The scoreboard
The scoreboard does not yet hold enough mature Near Graduation 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.
Selected history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpaceXcoin | BSC | $34K | $635K | 18x | 2026-08-17 |
| Freedom of Money | BSC | $16K | $903K | 57x | 2026-09-10 |
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
| FLORK | BSC | $70K | $5100K | 73x | 2026-09-01 |
Picked from the network's dated XTRACK outcome reports. A market-cap multiple is not a trading profit, and most alerted tokens did far worse.
Follow on Telegram
Pain Crypto - NPNG does not post alerts itself; these Telegram routes do.
@empiresolneargradThe source channel for this desk: all Near Graduation prints on Solana.
@gmgnxsolgraduatedA token has just completed its bonding curve and now trades in an open pool: the Graduated channel.
Open SOLANA MainAll Solana lanes in one verified group.
Add Launches folderAdds a whole set of verified channels to Telegram in one tap.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
The checklist
The routine Pain Crypto - NPNG uses before trusting any Solana alert.
- Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window.
- Open the deployer wallet and read its earlier launches.
- Use an amount you can lose completely without stress.
- Test that you can sell a small amount before adding size.
- See whether other Empire channels alerted the same contract and when.
- Decide your exit before you enter, including the price where you are wrong.
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Questions
What is Pain Crypto - NPNG?
Pain Crypto - NPNG is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Near Graduation channel on Solana and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
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.
What does 'dead' mean on the scoreboard?
Dead means -80 % from the alert market cap, a cap under $5K, or a drained pool.
Does Pain Crypto - NPNG hold or sell tokens it shows?
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.