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What a Pump Trending alert means
A Pump Trending alert means a pump.fun token is ranking on the launchpad's trending view.
Day to day, a fast chart can come from real demand or from a few wallets trading with themselves. Pump Journal uses Pump Trending to find the move and the checks below to explain it.
Pump Journal tracks Pump 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.
Quick test: Check whether the move started before or after the first public call. Divide 24-hour volume by liquidity. A very high ratio can mean churn between a few wallets.
Fresh from @empiresolpumptrend
Loading live Pump Trending alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
How these alerts played out
0.9 %5x in 24 h
18 %2x in 24 h
73 %dead in 24 h
113tokens measured
113 Pump Trending alerts on Solana matured in the last 7 days. 18 % doubled inside 24 hours, 0.9 % went 5x, and 73 % were dead within the day, usually after about 1.3 h. For comparison, 25 % of all Solana alerts doubled. With 95 % confidence this lane did worse than the rest of Solana on the 2x measure, which is why the checks matter more here.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
From the @empiresolpumptrend lane
Recorded on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. Pump Journal keeps a short log so the page shows real alerts even without scripts.
- At 13:47 UTC the feed caught Dogecoin: cap $156.5K, liquidity $33.5K, 716 holders, top 10 holding 5 %.
- MISTAKE printed at 13:04 UTC with a $2.21M market cap and $146.3K in the pool, 2,930 holders.
- BURNIE printed at 11:43 UTC with a $1.77M market cap and $285.5K in the pool, 40,623 holders.
- Ref alerted at 10:15 UTC. Market cap $53.8K, liquidity $23.4K, +20.9 % over the prior hour, 223 holders.
- CAGRIPPA (10:15 UTC) — $95.8K cap against $25.9K liquidity, top 10 holding 10 %.
- 07:47 UTC · FAP entered the lane at $102.8K; pool depth $26.2K, 1,868 holders.
- At 06:16 UTC the feed caught -- . -- .: cap $37.0K, liquidity $24.3K, 233 holders, top 10 holding 19 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Our method
Run these on every contract, in this order.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure. |
| 2 | Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly. |
| 3 | Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them. |
| 4 | Use an amount you can lose completely without stress. |
| 5 | Test that you can sell a small amount before adding size. |
| 6 | Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window. |
Words on this page
- Multiple
- How many times the market cap grew from the first alert, e.g. 3x.
- Smart money
- Wallets with a measured history of profitable trades.
- Slippage
- Price you lose to pool depth when a trade executes.
- Top-10 share
- How concentrated supply is in the largest holders.
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Screening rule
Every desk in the network filters differently. This is the screen Pump Journal applies to the @empiresolpumptrend lane:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 50 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
In the 48 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 12 hours), 29 passed this screen. Those that passed had a median market cap of $98.8K, median liquidity of $25.9K and about 664 holders. 3 of the 48 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 17 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Past alerts, dated
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARE | Robinhood | $38K | $3700K | 99x | 2026-09-03 |
| NEKO | Robinhood | $55K | $920K | 17x | 2026-09-05 |
| CATS | Robinhood | $10K | $198K | 19x | 2026-08-18 |
| MAGNET | SOL | $42K | $846K | 20x | 2026-09-10 |
Historic examples only. Each multiple compares the reported market cap with the first alert. Many other alerts in the same period lost value.
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Questions
What is Pump Journal?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Pump Trending alerts on Solana, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
Does Pump Journal hold or sell tokens it shows?
The desk does not trade from this page and does not take payment from projects for listing them.
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?
Dead means -80 % from the alert market cap, a cap under $5K, or a drained pool.