What is Sentinel?

Sentinel is Burst’s trust layer. It makes it significantly harder for a single user to operate multiple wallets to bundle the supply of a token, manipulate early markets, or flood the platform with spam launches. Burst keeps creation permissionless. Sentinel raises the cost and complexity of abuse by correlating identity, funding, and behavior across wallets.

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Why Sentinel exists

Open launch systems fail when one actor can create dozens of wallets, buy up early supply across all of them, and control a token’s market before anyone else gets a fair shot. Sentinel makes this ~90% harder by layering multiple enforcement signals that a single user cannot easily bypass.

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Core model

Sentinel combines:

• a fixed deployment cost of 0.1 SOL,
• per-account rate limiting,
• wallet identity correlation,
• funding source analysis,
• device and session signals,
• and post-launch market integrity monitoring.

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What Sentinel prevents

• Supply bundling across multiple wallets by the same user.
• Coordinated spam launches that bury real tokens.
• Sybil attacks that game deployment limits.
• Fake chart activity that traps legitimate traders.

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How Sentinel works

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Practical effect

Sentinel keeps creation permissionless. But it prevents the most common abuse patterns: one user controlling supply through multiple wallets, bots flooding discovery with spam tokens, and fake charts trapping real traders. Legitimate creators get a cleaner venue. Traders get better signal density. And the platform avoids becoming a coordination game for insiders.