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Silk Apes reads the Paid Boosts channel so you can see each alert in context: live data, measured outcomes, and a plain checklist.

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The live feed

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Screen: liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 100 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.

What a Paid Boosts alert means

A Paid Boosts alert means someone paid to promote the token on a DEX screener.

For Silk Apes, project signals show what the people behind a token are doing: paying for promotion, updating links, relaunching or moving supply. Silk Apes follows Paid Boosts on Solana for those actions.

For Silk Apes, a team that pays for a boost or edits its screener page is spending effort. Silk Apes reads Paid Boosts to see where that effort goes and whether holders follow.

First look: Check who paid for the boost and whether the same wallet holds supply. Confirm new social links point to accounts with real history, not accounts created that day.

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Background for this lane, from the Blackhat DYOR library. Silk Apes rotates the list over time.

How Silk Apes filters

The rule behind this page. Silk Apes keeps an alert only if it passes all of these:

In the 47 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 15 hours), 30 passed this screen. The passing group sat at a median $195.8K cap with $52.0K in the pool and roughly 819 holders. 5 of the 47 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 21 %.

Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.

Where the alerts post

Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Silk Apes links the routes that fit this lane.

@empiresolboostsEvery Paid Boosts alert on Solana posts here first.
@empiresolctoThe community took over a token after the original team left: the CTO channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add Research folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.

Recorded alerts

Snapshot of 2026-09-23: alerts Silk Apes pulled from the @empiresolboosts lane, with the market data printed at alert time.

Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.

From the XTRACK reports

TokenChainFirst alert capTracked capMultipleReport
RETAILRobinhood$19K$362K19x2026-09-02
PolycatSOL$25K$430K17x2026-08-24
LOOKSMAXSOL$30K$2400K77x2026-08-16
CATSRobinhood$10K$198K19x2026-08-18

Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.

The scoreboard

79 %dead in 24 h
6 %5x in 24 h
144tokens measured
22 %2x in 24 h

144 Paid Boosts alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 22 % doubled inside 24 hours, 6 % went 5x, and 79 % were dead within the day, usually after about 7 h. For comparison, 25 % of all Solana alerts doubled. Statistically the lane is not yet different from the rest of Solana.

Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.

How we read a contract

The routine Silk Apes uses before trusting any Solana alert.

#Check
1Confirm the token cannot be minted again or frozen in your wallet.
2Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block.
3Confirm on the chart which pool the price comes from and how deep it is.
4Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly.
5Compare volume with liquidity and holder growth.
6Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.

Before you ask

What is Silk Apes?

Silk Apes 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.

Can I trust a token that appears here?

An alert means the token matched a filter. Trust comes only from your own checks.

What does 'dead' mean on the scoreboard?

Dead means -80 % from the alert market cap, a cap under $5K, or a drained pool.

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.

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