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

# What is Sentinel?

> How the Sentinel program makes it 90% harder for one user to bundle supply across multiple wallets.

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.

## 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.

## 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.

<Note>
  Sentinel is not one anti-spam switch. It is a layered trust system that correlates signals across wallets, funding sources, and on-platform behavior.
</Note>

## 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.

## How Sentinel works

<Steps>
  <Step title="Deployment limits">
    Economic cost and rate limits prevent cheap spam.

    [Learn more](/sentinel/deployment-limits)
  </Step>

  <Step title="Wallet detection">
    Identity correlation links wallets controlled by the same actor.

    [Learn more](/sentinel/wallet-detection)
  </Step>

  <Step title="Market integrity">
    Post-launch monitoring catches fake activity and refunds real traders.

    [Learn more](/sentinel/market-integrity)
  </Step>
</Steps>

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Open access remains">
    Anyone can still launch a token.

    Burst does not gate creation behind manual approval.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Abuse gets expensive">
    Bundling supply, spamming launches, and faking charts all require significantly more resources and carry real risk of detection.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## 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.