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4 min read · 2026-06-10
Fresh from @empirerhcto
Loading live CTO alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $50.0K, liquidity at least $10.0K, at least 100 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Network history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
| SOCIALCAT | Robinhood | $16K | $315K | 19x | 2026-09-02 |
| PONS | BSC | $20K | $598K | 30x | 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.
What a CTO alert means
A CTO alert means the community took over a token after the original team left.
Project signals show what the people behind a token are doing: paying for promotion, updating links, relaunching or moving supply. Rug Alpha follows CTO on Robinhood Chain for those actions.
For Rug Alpha, deployer moves, relaunches and paid promotion are all public on Robinhood Chain. Rug Alpha collects them from CTO and checks them against holders and liquidity.
Start here: Confirm new social links point to accounts with real history, not accounts created that day. Check who paid for the boost and whether the same wallet holds supply.
Before you click buy
The routine Rug Alpha uses before trusting any Robinhood Chain alert.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Write down the level that proves you wrong before any buy. |
| 2 | Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly. |
| 3 | Compare volume with liquidity and holder growth. |
| 4 | Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended. |
| 5 | Test that you can sell a small amount before adding size. |
Get the alerts on Telegram
Pick one route. @empirerhcto is the direct source for Rug Alpha.
@empirerhctoThe source channel for this desk: all CTO prints on Robinhood Chain.
@empirerhsocialsA project updated its links or profile on a DEX screener: the DEX Social Updates channel.
Open ROBINHOOD MainAll Robinhood Chain lanes in one verified group.
Add Research folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
Robinhood Chain channel folderEvery verified Robinhood Chain alert channel, added as one folder.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
Deeper reading
Five reads that fit CTO alerts on Robinhood Chain, chosen by Rug Alpha.
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Recorded alerts
Rug Alpha's lane log for 2026-09-23. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- 14:58 UTC · Kenny entered the lane at $173.7K; pool depth $69.7K, 213 holders.
- DARK alerted at 10:05 UTC. Market cap $2.48M, liquidity $138.8K, 757 holders.
- ShinyHunters printed at 09:18 UTC with a $304.4K market cap and $109.4K in the pool, 355 holders.
- OAI (22:58 UTC) — $126.0K cap against $57.8K liquidity, top 10 holding 19 %.
- musemrkt (22:48 UTC) — $214.9K cap against $89.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 23 %, -10.4 % over the prior hour.
- MUSEFUND printed at 20:44 UTC with a $101.1K market cap and $25.9K in the pool, 144 holders.
- FLOW (20:04 UTC) — $85.8K cap against $28.5K liquidity, top 10 holding 14 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Glossary
- Wash trading
- Trading between linked wallets to inflate volume.
- Bonding curve
- The launchpad mechanism that sets price from how much supply has been sold so far.
- Slippage
- The gap between the expected price and the fill price.
- Market cap
- Price multiplied by circulating supply; on new tokens it can change several times in an hour.
The filter
Rug Alpha does not show every CTO alert. It applies one fixed screen, and the live board above uses the same rule:
- market cap at least $50.0K
- liquidity at least $10.0K
- at least 100 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 30 %
Checked against the latest 48 alerts in the lane (about 19 hours): 11 passed. Median values for the passing alerts: cap $101.1K, liquidity $28.5K, holders 355. 2 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 22 % of supply.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
7-day record
6 %5x in 24 h
56 %dead in 24 h
33 %2x in 24 h
36tokens measured
Measured window: 7 days, 36 tokens. 2x within a day: 33 %. 5x within a day: 6 %. Dead within a day: 56 %, usually after about 1.6 h. All Robinhood Chain topics together: 36 % reached 2x.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
FAQ
What is Rug Alpha?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches CTO alerts on Robinhood Chain, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Open the Telegram link on this page for @empirerhcto. Alerts arrive there first.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 56 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.
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.
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