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What this desk watches
A Price Surges alert means price moved sharply inside a short window.
Cook Table tracks Price Surges 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.
As a rule, a fast chart can come from real demand or from a few wallets trading with themselves. Cook Table uses Price Surges to find the move and the checks below to explain it.
Quick test: Look at how many distinct buyers joined during the move, not only the volume total. Check whether the move started before or after the first public call.
The live feed
Loading live Price Surges alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $50.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Telegram routes
Pick one route. @empirerhprices is the direct source for Cook Table.
@empirerhpricesThe source channel for this desk: all Price Surges prints on Robinhood Chain.
@empirerhtrendingA token entered the trending lists that the network reads: the Trending channel.
Open ROBINHOOD MainThe chain's main group, posting-restricted to Empire bots and admins.
Add Momentum folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
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Alert log · 2026-09-23
Cook Table's lane log for 2026-09-23. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- 15:07 UTC · LUMA entered the lane at $304.5K; pool depth $121.5K, 57 holders.
- 1muse alerted at 15:07 UTC. Market cap $108.3K, liquidity $12.0K, +2749.9 % over the prior hour, 103 holders.
- PURRF (15:03 UTC) — $467.6K cap against $140.3K liquidity, top 10 holding 16 %, 0.0 % over the prior hour.
- RH alerted at 15:03 UTC. Market cap $875.3K, liquidity $109.0K, -3.8 % over the prior hour, 317 holders.
- At 14:59 UTC the feed caught Kenny: cap $173.5K, liquidity $69.5K, 349 holders, top 10 holding 13 %.
- At 14:18 UTC the feed caught DOAI: cap $652.4K, liquidity $237.2K, 464 holders, top 10 holding 10 %.
- At 13:53 UTC the feed caught ORIGOO: cap $77.7K, liquidity $10.0K, 76 holders, top 10 holding 22 %.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Checks before any trade
Ten minutes, before any money moves.
- Read the top ten holders and remove pools and burn addresses from the count.
- Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block.
- Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window.
- Size the position so a total loss does not change your week.
- Look at what the creator address launched before and how those ended.
- Check whether mint and freeze authorities are revoked where the chain allows them.
How Cook Table filters
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice Cook Table made for Price Surges alerts:
- market cap at least $50.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
At build time the lane held 41 recent alerts covering about 2 hours; 12 of them cleared the screen. The passing group sat at a median $467.6K cap with $121.5K in the pool and roughly 349 holders. 1 of the 41 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 22 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Network history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOCIALCAT | Robinhood | $16K | $315K | 19x | 2026-09-02 |
| Polycat | SOL | $25K | $430K | 17x | 2026-08-24 |
| PRIVVVATE | Base | $15K | $532K | 34x | 2026-09-09 |
| 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.
How these alerts played out
73 %dead in 24 h
49 %2x in 24 h
402tokens measured
22 %5x in 24 h
Measured window: 7 days, 402 tokens. 2x within a day: 49 %. 5x within a day: 22 %. Dead within a day: 73 %, usually after about 1.6 h. All Robinhood Chain topics together: 36 % reached 2x. The measured 2x rate is above the rest of Robinhood Chain with 95 % confidence for this window.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
Terms used here
- Holder count
- The number of wallets holding the token; its trend matters more than the number.
- CTO
- A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
- LP burn
- Burning liquidity-provider tokens to keep the pool in place.
- Honeypot
- A contract that blocks or taxes selling so buyers are stuck.
Common questions
What is Cook Table?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Price Surges alerts on Robinhood Chain, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
Does Cook Table hold or sell tokens it shows?
No. The page publishes alerts and methods; it does not run positions or sell placements.
How often does a Price Surges alert reach 2x?
In the last 7 measured days, 49 % of Price Surges alerts on Robinhood Chain reached 2x within 24 hours (402 tokens). The same share can be very different next week.
What does the chart link do?
It opens a GMGN chart. The link includes our referral code, which can pay the publisher a commission.
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