> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.xhuntr.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Catch a launch at mint

> What to do in the sixty seconds after an alert lands.

An alert is a head start, not an answer. This is how to spend it.

## The sequence

A typical launch plays out as a chain of alerts, not one:

<Steps>
  <Step title="🚨 Created — a community appears">
    ```text theme={null}
    🎪 NEW COMMUNITY CREATED

    👤 @somedev
    🎪 Pippin Insiders
    👥 1 member · 🟢 Open
    📅 Brand new · ⚡ alerted < 5s after creation
    ```

    Nothing exists on-chain yet. **This is the earliest point you can be involved.** Join the community and watch it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="🔀 Convergence — others arrive">
    If more accounts you track join the same community, that is the crowd forming before the token does. The more accounts and the tighter the window, the stronger it is.
  </Step>

  <Step title="🪙 CA — the contract goes live">
    ```text theme={null}
    🛰 @somedev posted a CA inside community

    🪙 CA: FWuimB9mNPQCYKeKjtH11Wwqx5vKwVuz4FjVCAfNpump
    💰 $384K · $0.00000384 · 📈 +12.4%

    📊 DexScreener · ⚡ Trojan · 🟣 Axiom · 🔥 Pump.fun
    ```

    Now there is something to check.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Your sixty seconds

Before anything else, decide whether the alert is what you think it is:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Check which alert you got">
    🚀 **Launch** traces to a community they own — high confidence. 👁 **Coin Mention** is just their name on a coin — could be a copycat. They demand completely different levels of caution. See [Alert types](/alerts/types).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open the contract, not the name">
    Tap **📊 DexScreener**. Names and tickers are copied constantly; the contract address is the only thing that identifies the token.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Read liquidity and holders, not just price">
    A market cap with almost no liquidity behind it cannot be exited. Check how concentrated the holders are — one wallet holding most of the supply is the standard shape of a rug.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm the link back to the KOL">
    Does the community actually belong to the account that alerted you? Is the CA posted by them, or by a random member? A CA posted inside someone's community by a stranger is not their launch.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  Speed is the advantage XHuntr gives you, but being early to a rug is still being rugged. The head start is for **doing the checks before everyone else**, not for skipping them.
</Warning>

## Why a community with one member is interesting

It means you are seeing it before anyone else does. A community with one member, created moments ago, owned by an account with a launch history, is the earliest public artefact of a token that does not exist yet.

Most of them go nowhere. The ones that do not are the entire reason to run XHuntr.

## When there is no CA yet

Often the community appears well before the contract. That gap is the opportunity — use it to research the dev, check their previous launches, and decide **in advance** what you would do if a CA drops, so you are not deciding under time pressure.

<Card title="Hunt launches you have no KOL for" icon="crosshairs-simple" horizontal href="/earlyhunt/overview">
  EarlyHunt scans all of X for your keywords, so you catch launches from accounts you have never heard of.
</Card>