Volume-to-Market-Cap Ratio: How to Spot Wash Trading Before You Get Dumped On
Learn how to use the volume-to-market-cap ratio to identify fake volume and wash trading in memecoins before the rug…
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The lane
A Pump Trending alert means a launch is trending on pump.fun itself.
Put simply, price and volume spikes are common on Solana. Most fade within hours. Bonk Pit keeps the Pump Trending feed open to measure how many do not.
For Bonk Pit, a fast chart can come from real demand or from a few wallets trading with themselves. Bonk Pit uses Pump Trending to find the move and the checks below to explain it.
Quick test: Check whether the move started before or after the first public call. Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total.
The live feed
Loading live Pump Trending alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $10.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %. Charts open on GMGN.
From the @empiresolpumptrend lane
A sample from the Pump Trending lane on Solana, recorded by Bonk Pit on 2026-09-23. The live board above keeps updating; this log does not.
- fone printed at 13:21 UTC with a $4.43M market cap and $491.9K in the pool, 24,025 holders.
- Anogrippa alerted at 12:16 UTC. Market cap $56.1K, liquidity $17.8K, 793 holders.
- MONKINU alerted at 10:31 UTC. Market cap $346.5K, liquidity $54.3K, -2.4 % over the prior hour, 217 holders.
- 10:15 UTC · fomovspump entered the lane at $120.2K; pool depth $29.7K, 544 holders.
- todd (06:23 UTC) — $64.1K cap against $19.1K liquidity, top 10 holding 24 %, +19.5 % over the prior hour.
- At 03:47 UTC the feed caught SWBR: cap $71.2K, liquidity $20.8K, 1,391 holders, top 10 holding 26 %.
- JEANPHIL (03:17 UTC) — $6.55M cap against $678.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 15 %, -9.0 % over the prior hour.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Screening rule
Bonk Pit narrows the Pump Trending lane on Solana with a simple, public screen:
- market cap at least $10.0K
- at least 50 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 40 %
In the 48 most recent lane alerts at build time (about 12 hours), 35 passed this screen. The passing group sat at a median $89.5K cap with $25.2K in the pool and roughly 654 holders. 3 out of 48 alerts showed a pool smaller than a tenth of the cap — a warning sign on its own. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 17 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Checks before any trade
Ten minutes, before any money moves.
- Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly.
- Size the position so a total loss does not change your week.
- Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
- Open the chart and confirm the pool, the pair and the liquidity figure.
- Write down the level that proves you wrong before any buy.
Telegram routes
Pick one route. @empiresolpumptrend is the direct source for Bonk Pit.
@empiresolpumptrendThe source channel for this desk: all Pump Trending prints on Solana.
@gmgnxpricesurgesPrice moved sharply inside a short window: the Price Surges channel.
Open SOLANA MainThe verified Solana main group with all alert lanes.
Add HYPE Radar folderAdds a whole set of verified channels to Telegram in one tap.
@gmgnx_chatTalk to other members and the team.
Terms used here
- Rug pull
- When insiders remove liquidity or dump supply and the price collapses.
- Top-10 share
- The percentage of supply held by the ten largest wallets, excluding pools and burns.
- LP burn
- Destroying the pool's LP tokens so liquidity cannot be withdrawn by the creator.
- Slippage
- The gap between the expected price and the fill price.
Study list
Bonk Pit picked these guides from the DYOR library for readers of the Pump Trending lane.
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Numbers, not promises
113tokens measured
18 %2x in 24 h
73 %dead in 24 h
0.9 %5x in 24 h
Measured window: 7 days, 113 tokens. 2x within a day: 18 %. 5x within a day: 0.9 %. Dead within a day: 73 %, usually after about 1.3 h. All Solana topics together: 25 % reached 2x. 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.
Past alerts, dated
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX | Base | $22K | $933K | 42x | 2026-09-06 |
| Jacob | Robinhood | $47K | $906K | 19x | 2026-09-09 |
| DOS | BSC | $69K | $7500K | 110x | 2026-08-16 |
| NEKO | Robinhood | $55K | $920K | 17x | 2026-09-05 |
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.
Other desks on trojan.international
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Before you ask
What is Bonk Pit?
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.
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.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Open the Telegram link on this page for @empiresolpumptrend. Alerts arrive there first.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 73 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.