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About this desk
A Combined HYPE alert means more than one hype measure triggered on the same contract.
Day to day, caller consensus can mean real interest or a coordinated push. Rich Duck reads Combined HYPE with the timing of each call in view.
Put simply, the more callers post a token, the more buyers arrive late. Rich Duck uses Combined HYPE to see the pattern early and the checks to judge it.
One habit: Check whether the callers share the same wallet funding or the same launch history. Note the time gap between the first and the fifth call; a tight cluster can be coordinated.
Latest Robinhood Chain prints
Loading live Combined HYPE alerts…
Screen: market cap at least $20.0K, at least 50 holders, top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %. Charts open on GMGN.
Before you click buy
The routine Rich Duck uses before trusting any Robinhood Chain alert.
| # | Check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Set volume against pool depth and new holders over the same window. |
| 2 | Size the position so a total loss does not change your week. |
| 3 | Look again after an hour, because early data on thin tokens shifts quickly. |
| 4 | Decide your exit before you enter, including the price where you are wrong. |
| 5 | Search the contract in the Empire Telegram network to see other alerts on it. |
What the record says
The scoreboard does not yet hold enough mature Combined HYPE alerts on Robinhood Chain to publish a rate. The chain-wide figure over 7 days: 35 % of alerts reached 2x within 24 hours and 60 % died within the day.
Source: Blackhat alert scoreboard, updated 2026-09-24. Full scoreboard.
Selected history
| Token | Chain | First alert cap | Tracked cap | Multiple | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORK | BSC | $70K | $5100K | 73x | 2026-09-01 |
| SpaceXcoin | BSC | $34K | $635K | 18x | 2026-08-17 |
| Freedom of Money | BSC | $16K | $903K | 57x | 2026-09-10 |
| BABYPONS | BSC | $184K | $3500K | 19x | 2026-09-07 |
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.
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Quick definitions
- CTO
- A project restarted by holders after the deployer walked away.
- KOL
- Key opinion leader: an influencer whose posts move attention.
- Dev wallet
- The address that deployed the token; its holdings and sells matter.
- Contract address
- The address that identifies exactly one token.
Screening rule
Filters are a choice, not a truth. This is the choice Rich Duck made for Combined HYPE alerts:
- market cap at least $20.0K
- at least 50 holders
- top-10 wallets holding at most 25 %
At build time the lane held 44 recent alerts covering about 3 days; 0 of them cleared the screen. No alert in the sample had a pool smaller than 10 % of its cap. Across the whole lane, the ten largest wallets held a median 18 % of supply.
Fewer than three recent alerts passed, so the lane log below shows unfiltered alerts for context.
Values measured on 2026-09-24 from the Empire feed. The screen is a filter, not a recommendation.
Recent Combined HYPE prints
Snapshot of 2026-09-24: alerts Rich Duck pulled from the @empirehypealerts lane, with the market data printed at alert time.
- DEVS (19:08 UTC) — $31 cap against $75.0K liquidity, top 10 holding 15 %, +1661.0 % over the prior hour.
- At 04:49 UTC the feed caught JOLLY: cap $27, liquidity $30.1K, 304 holders, top 10 holding 28 %.
- CREDITS (03:12 UTC) — $9 cap against $93.2K liquidity, top 10 holding 19 %.
- FLOW alerted at 19:58 UTC. Market cap $30, liquidity $32.3K, 375 holders.
- MCCC alerted at 16:57 UTC. Market cap $14, liquidity $42.5K, +251.0 % over the prior hour, 922 holders.
- SNOW (07:17 UTC) — $31 cap against $33.6K liquidity, top 10 holding 21 %.
- PUNKS (04:24 UTC) — $24 cap against $47.6K liquidity, top 10 holding 26 %, +351.0 % over the prior hour.
Recorded values, not live prices. Charts open on GMGN with the publisher's referral code.
Follow on Telegram
Alerts reach Telegram before any web page. Rich Duck links the routes that fit this lane.
@empirehypealertsThe source channel for this desk: all Combined HYPE prints on Robinhood Chain.
@empirerhsmartmoneyAddresses the network rates as skilled traders opened positions: the Smart Money Buys channel.
Open ROBINHOOD MainThe verified Robinhood Chain main group with all alert lanes.
Add HYPE Radar folderAdds a whole set of verified channels to Telegram in one tap.
@gmgnx_chatThe community chat, for questions and discussion.
Common questions
What is Rich Duck?
It is one of the Empire's public desks. It watches Combined HYPE alerts on Robinhood Chain, prints them live and explains how to check each one.
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.
How do I get these alerts on my phone?
Join the @empirehypealerts channel on Telegram. It posts every Combined HYPE alert as it happens.
Where do the alerts come from?
From the Blackhat Empire alert network: on-chain data, launchpads, screeners and tracked wallets, filtered and posted to Telegram. The live board reads the same feed.
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