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Empire desk · Solana
Brass Radar
Brass Radar tracks Smart Money Exits alerts on Solana, measures how they played out, and links you to the Telegram channel that posts them first.
Why Smart Money Exits
A Smart Money Exits alert means wallets with a strong past record sold.
Brass Radar 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.
A buy is a fact. The reason behind it is a guess. Brass Radar uses the Smart Money Exits channel for the facts and keeps the guessing for later.
First look: Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy. Compare the buy size with pool liquidity; a buy that moves price far is also hard to exit.
The live feed
Loading live Smart Money Exits alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $50.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Terms used here
- KOL
- A public account with enough followers to move a small market.
- Rug pull
- An exit by insiders that leaves holders unable to sell at any fair price.
- LP burn
- Destroying the pool's LP tokens so liquidity cannot be withdrawn by the creator.
- Mint authority
- Permission to print more tokens, which should be switched off.
The scoreboard
The scoreboard does not yet hold enough mature Smart Money Exits 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.
Telegram routes
Pick one route. @empiresolexits is the direct source for Brass Radar.
@empiresolexitsThe source channel for this desk: all Smart Money Exits prints on Solana.
@empiresolsinglebuysA single followed wallet opened a position: the Single Buys channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add Single Buys folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
The desk's screen
Brass Radar narrows the Smart Money Exits lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
- market cap at least $50.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
In the 29 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 23 hours), 25 passed this screen. The passing group sat at a median $579.9K cap with $107.6K in the pool and roughly 1838 holders. Thin pools were common: 7 of 29 had less than 10 % of their cap in liquidity. Median concentration in the lane: 24 % 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.
Dated examples from the network
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 2026-08-24 |
| PRIVVVATE | Base | $15K | $532K | 34x | 2026-09-09 |
| PICKLES | Robinhood | $21K | $1200K | 58x | 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.
A ten-minute check
The same short routine, every time.
- Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
- Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
- Re-check the token an hour later; many setups change fast.
- Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them.
- Test that you can sell a small amount before adding size.
- Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended.
Study list
Brass Radar picked these guides from the DYOR library for readers of the Smart Money Exits lane.
The Signal in the Noise: Why Holder Curves Beat Price Charts
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Serial Launchers: How to Spot the Dev Who Will Rug You Again
Learn to trace dev wallet histories on GMGN and identify serial launchers before you ap into their next…
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Volume-to-Market-Cap: The Wash-Trading Tell
How to use volume-to-market-cap ratios to spot wash trading and fake liquidity in memecoins before you…
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Recent Smart Money Exits prints
A sample from the Smart Money Exits lane on Solana, recorded by Brass Radar on 2026-09-23. The live board above keeps updating; this log does not.
- fone printed at 13:21 UTC with a $4.38M market cap and $705.4K in the pool, 24,025 holders.
- EMBER (11:57 UTC) — $21.13M cap against $1.80M liquidity, top 10 holding 24 %, +2.7 % over the prior hour.
- BURNIE (11:43 UTC) — $1.72M cap against $277.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 28 %, -5.4 % over the prior hour.
- GIGACAT (11:41 UTC) — $277.4K cap against $41.7K liquidity, top 10 holding 27 %, -50.6 % over the prior hour.
- At 08:03 UTC the feed caught nosis: cap $284.4K, liquidity $74.2K, 2,126 holders, top 10 holding 21 %.
- 21:27 UTC · SI entered the lane at $3.65M; pool depth $226.2K, 1,838 holders.
- APED (17:58 UTC) — $318.9K cap against $57.9K liquidity, top 10 holding 23 %, +4.4 % over the prior hour.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
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Before you ask
What is Brass Radar?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Smart Money Exits alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
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.
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.
Is Brass Radar financial advice?
No. The desk shows data and a checking method. It does not recommend buying or selling anything.