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Empire desk · Robinhood Chain
Ape Harbor
One desk, one lane: Trending on Robinhood Chain. Ape Harbor prints the live feed and the honest numbers behind it.
Fresh from @empirerhtrending
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Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, liquidity at least $5.0K, at least 100 holders. Charts open on GMGN.
How Ape Harbor filters
The rule behind this page. Ape Harbor keeps an alert only if it passes all of these:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- liquidity at least $5.0K
- at least 100 holders
At build time the lane held 48 recent alerts covering about 11 hours; 35 of them cleared the screen. The passing group sat at a median $116.0K cap with $35.7K in the pool and roughly 355 holders. 5 out of 48 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 28 %.
Values measured on 2026-09-23 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
What this desk watches
A Trending alert means a token is ranking on the trending boards the desk follows.
Day to day, momentum alerts show that something is moving, not why. Ape Harbor reads Trending on Robinhood Chain as a question: who is driving the move, and can the pool absorb it?
Price and volume spikes are common on Robinhood Chain. Most fade within hours. Ape Harbor keeps the Trending feed open to measure how many do not.
Start here: 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.
Measured outcomes
69tokens measured
33 %2x in 24 h
65 %dead in 24 h
12 %5x in 24 h
69 Trending alerts on Robinhood Chain matured in the last 7 days. 33 % doubled inside 24 hours, 12 % went 5x, and 65 % were dead within the day, usually after about 0.5 h. For comparison, 36 % of all Robinhood Chain alerts doubled. The difference from the rest of Robinhood Chain is still inside the noise; more data is needed before calling it better or worse.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, 7-day window of mature alerts (older than 24 h), updated 2026-09-23. Full scoreboard.
Selected history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | SOL | $87K | $6000K | 70x | 2026-09-08 |
| astro | Robinhood | $74K | $5600K | 76x | 2026-09-09 |
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
| CATS | Robinhood | $10K | $198K | 19x | 2026-08-18 |
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.
Before you click buy
Run these on every contract, in this order.
- Use an amount you can lose completely without stress.
- Look for bundled launch buys: several wallets buying in the same block.
- Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window.
- Copy the full contract address from the alert, never the ticker.
- Try a small sell early; some tokens restrict selling.
Telegram routes
Telegram is where every Trending alert lands first. These are the verified routes for Ape Harbor.
@empirerhtrendingThe source channel for this desk: all Trending prints on Robinhood Chain.
@empirerhpricesA token's price jumped against its recent range: the Price Surges channel.
Open ROBINHOOD MainThe verified Robinhood Chain main group with all alert lanes.
Add Momentum folderImports the related Empire channels as a folder.
Robinhood Chain channel folderOne folder with all Robinhood Chain lanes.
@gmgnx_chatTalk to other members and the team.
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Recent Trending prints
Ape Harbor's lane log for 2026-09-23. Each line is one alert as the feed recorded it; what happened next is on the chart.
- 11:07 UTC · RBD entered the lane at $8.16M; pool depth $276.7K, 1,126 holders.
- CATCH printed at 09:41 UTC with a $33.6K market cap and $16.7K in the pool, 121 holders.
- 08:46 UTC · CS entered the lane at $107.6K; pool depth $31.7K, 423 holders.
- TIER alerted at 06:46 UTC. Market cap $38.4K, liquidity $19.5K, -19.1 % over the prior hour, 273 holders.
- Pyre alerted at 06:10 UTC. Market cap $327.2K, liquidity $52.7K, 1,136 holders.
- At 04:43 UTC the feed caught JOLLY: cap $46.0K, liquidity $19.0K, 116 holders, top 10 holding 29 %.
- 04:23 UTC · CATWIFFEATHER entered the lane at $435.7K; pool depth $53.6K, 653 holders.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
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FAQ
What is Ape Harbor?
Ape Harbor is a Blackhat Crypto Empire desk that follows the Trending channel on Robinhood Chain and shows the network's live alerts with the checks we use to read them.
How often does a Trending alert reach 2x?
Over 7 days of mature data, 33 % reached 2x inside a day. That is a measured past rate, not a forecast.
Is Ape Harbor financial advice?
No. Alerts are observations from public data. Every token here can lose all of its value, and you decide what to do with the information.
Why do so many alerted tokens die?
Because most launches fail. The scoreboard counts it openly: 65 % of these alerts died within a day in the measured window.