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How SLINK ran 56x in 71 minutes, and who paid for it
A fomo.family runner on Robinhood Chain, reconstructed from the tape: four hours of nothing, ten tracked wallets in thirty minutes, 56x to $44M, and a full round trip before hour two. 54 tracked wallets, 16 made money.
Updated 2026-09-12. The first version of this post double-counted some fills: a database index that did not treat NULLs as equal let a replayed block insert the same fill again, and the tape summed the copies. 11,955 duplicate rows were removed. Every number below is from the corrected data; the shape of the story did not change, the dollar sizes did.
SLINK launched on Robinhood Chain on 2026-09-04 at 18:06 UTC with no description, no socials and no website. Four hours later it went from $771k to $44M in 71 minutes, and back to $2M within the next hour. This is what the hoodwatch.dev tape saw, wallet by wallet. The full numbers are in the SLINK dossier (JSON); the live page is /token/SLINK.
Every multiple below is relative to the 5-minute median price around the first tracked buy. Tracked means a wallet we map to a public fomo.family leaderboard handle. Nothing here is advice.
The timeline
| when (UTC) | after | what happened |
|---|---|---|
| 18:06 | pool created; no story, no links | |
| 18:06 → 22:26 | 4 h 20 min of nothing at $600k to $1.2M | |
| 22:26 | 0 | first tracked buy: wastr3L, $992, ~$771k mcap |
| 22:35 | +9 min | Rowdy (rank 32) starts buying; $265k bought across the run |
| 22:45 | +19 min | skoqv in at 0.55x with $16k |
| 22:56 | +30 min | 10 tracked wallets in, 2 of them ranked |
| 23:20 | +53 min | 2x; 11 tracked wallets in |
| 23:30 | +66 min | 5x, 10x and 20x inside one five-minute bucket |
| 23:35 | +71 min | 50x; 21 tracked wallets in, 15 already selling in the next five minutes |
| 23:35 | +71 min | peak 56.6x, $43.7M |
| 00:11 | +105 min | back to 13x |
| 00:26 | +120 min | 2.4x; round trip complete |
| now | $142k, 0.18x, one copycat ticker, dead |
Hour one alone: 47 tracked buyers, 46 tracked sellers, 17,739 fills, $15.3M traded. Tracked wallets were 28% of all volume on the token, $4.9M of $17.3M.
Who was in, and when
54 tracked wallets touched SLINK. 16 finished net positive on what they actually sold. 36 finished negative. 40 of the 54 entered at 5x or later.
Early, sold into strength. skoqv is the trade of the week: in at minute 19 at 0.55x with $16k, sold $202k at an average of 45x, net +$186k. frankdegods (rank 40) got in late, at 21x, and still made +$55k by selling at an average of 27x. looc in at 24x, out at 22x, +$49k on size. crustball in at 33x, out at 26x, +$26k.
Early, big, and flat. Rowdy bought $265k starting at minute 9 and sold $250k at an average of 24x. On realized fills that is −$15k, but the position is not closed, so the real number depends on what is still held. wastr3L, the first tracked buyer, bought $50k and sold $24k at an average of 13x.
Late and heavy. The largest realized losses all entered between minute 66 and minute 84, at 27x to 78x:
| handle | in after | entry | bought | sold | realized |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USronaldcarter | 1.2 h | 31x | $406k | $72k | −$334k |
| jelitics | 1.2 h | 31x | $188k | $25k | −$164k |
| 0xangeryy | 1.2 h | 78x | $101k | $28 | −$101k |
| FartmanSacks | 1.2 h | 27x | $94k | $20k | −$73k |
| rodotfun | 9 min | 1.3x | $96k | $26k | −$70k |
| 397397 | 1.4 h | 42x | $71k | $5k | −$66k |
Some of these still hold tokens, so "realized" overstates the final loss only if SLINK recovers. At $142k it has not. rodotfun is the exception in that table: in at minute 9, sold at an average of 11x, and still net negative because most of the position was never sold.
What the tape could have told you
- Dormancy then ranked entry. Four hours flat, then a ranked wallet in within nine minutes of the first tracked buy, and ten tracked wallets by minute 30. On the W37 export, launches with 7 or more tracked buyers in the first 30 minutes had a 3.2x median peak. SLINK had 10.
- The confirmation window was 13 minutes. 2x at minute 53 with 11 wallets in. 20x at minute 66. Anyone who needed the 2x confirmation had 13 minutes to act, and had to be out by minute 105.
- Sellers appeared before the top. In the five minutes after 50x, 15 tracked wallets were selling against 21 buying. The tape showed distribution while the price was still printing new highs.
- Entry multiple decided the outcome. Every net-positive wallet either entered under 2x or sold within minutes of buying. Every large loss but one entered above 27x.
- No story, no socials, no copycats. The launch had nothing to read. It ran on flow alone, and only one copycat ticker followed, which is unusual: PONS spawned 55 in a week.
What hoodwatch.dev did not do
No alert fired for SLINK. The RUNNER lane that flags a confirmed 3x within 60 minutes with three or more tracked buyers was built on 2026-09-10, six days after this run, partly because of it and FLYBRAIN. On today's rules SLINK would have triggered at 23:20, with 15 minutes to the top.
Two numbers to keep in mind before reading this as a playbook: 36 of 54 tracked wallets lost money on the best runner of the week, and the tape only shows what public leaderboard wallets did, not why.
Dossiers for the other runners of the week: MARIO, FLY, TOPBLAST. All exports are at /exports.
hoodwatch.dev is unofficial and read-only, not affiliated with fomo.family or Robinhood. Nothing here is financial advice. Open the live tape.