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The live feed
Loading live CEX-Funded Buys alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
The lane
A CEX-Funded Buys alert means buyers whose funds came directly from a centralized exchange appeared.
A buy is a fact. The reason behind it is a guess. Kol Kitchen uses the CEX-Funded Buys channel for the facts and keeps the guessing for later.
Wallet alerts show what money did, which is harder to fake than a post. Kol Kitchen follows CEX-Funded Buys on Solana and asks whose wallets they are and what they did before.
First look: Check whether several buying wallets were funded from one source a few minutes earlier. Open the buying wallet and read its last twenty trades before trusting the buy.
Glossary
- CTO
- A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
- Liquidity
- Pool depth: the larger it is, the less a single trade moves the price.
- Graduation
- When a token leaves its launchpad curve and starts trading in an open pool.
- Sniper
- A bot or wallet that buys in the first seconds of a launch.
Lane log
Kol Kitchen's lane log for 2026-09-24. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- GO printed at 17:16 UTC with a $233.9K market cap and $40.2K in the pool, 399 holders.
- CALI (14:03 UTC) — $1.20M cap against $298.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 23 %, +9.8 % over the prior hour.
- ARCHIBROWN (13:37 UTC) — $670.0K cap against $87.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 27 %.
- MONKINU (11:29 UTC) — $1.10M cap against $82.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 23 %.
- QUEEF (11:12 UTC) — $805.7K cap against $139.9K liquidity, top 10 holding 16 %.
- inu printed at 18:12 UTC with a $105.7K market cap and $32.8K in the pool, 919 holders.
- Stamp (09:53 UTC) — $584.2K cap against $161.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 15 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Measured outcomes
No separate rate is published for this lane yet. Across all Solana topics in the last 7 days, 24 % reached 2x inside a day and 79 % died inside a day.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, updated 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
The desk's screen
Kol Kitchen does not show every CEX-Funded Buys alert. It applies one fixed screen, and the live board above uses the same rule:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
Checked against the latest 32 alerts in the lane (about 2 days): 24 passed. The passing group sat at a median $584.2K cap with $87.8K in the pool and roughly 919 holders. 4 out of 32 alerts showed a pool smaller than a tenth of the cap — a warning sign on its own. The median top-10 holder share across the lane was 22 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
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Our method
The routine Kol Kitchen uses before trusting any Solana alert.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them. |
| 2 | Size the position so a total loss does not change your week. |
| 3 | Check the first minutes for same-block buys from linked wallets. |
| 4 | Check holder concentration after excluding pool and burn wallets. |
| 5 | Compare volume with liquidity and holder growth. |
| 6 | Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling. |
Telegram routes
Pick one route. @empiresolcexbuys is the direct source for Kol Kitchen.
@empiresolcexbuysThe source channel for this desk: all CEX-Funded Buys prints on Solana.
@empiresolbigbuysA large single purchase hit the token: the Big Buys channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add Multibuys folderA Telegram folder: one tap adds the related channels.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
From the XTRACK reports
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 2026-08-24 |
| SOCIALCAT | Robinhood | $16K | $315K | 19x | 2026-09-02 |
| RKST | Robinhood | $82K | $8300K | 100x | 2026-09-06 |
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.
Common questions
What is Kol Kitchen?
Kol Kitchen is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the CEX-Funded Buys 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.
What does the chart link do?
It opens a GMGN chart. The link includes our referral code, which can pay the publisher a commission.
Does Kol Kitchen hold or sell tokens it shows?
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.
