What is Kestrel?

Kestrel is an on-chain trust layer for Solana. You paste a token mint or a wallet address, and Kestrel turns the public on-chain facts — the ones most people never pull — into a single, readable risk card. Where privacy tools work to hide the trail, Kestrel does the opposite: it makes the trail legible before you commit funds.

Kestrel is read-only. It never asks you to connect a wallet to scan, never requests a signature, and never takes custody of anything. Reading a token can't move your funds.

The five checks

Every scan surfaces the same five signals. Each one is an objective fact readable from the chain — not an opinion.

Mint authority

Whether new supply can still be minted. If the mint authority is revoked, supply is fixed; if it's active, the owner can print more tokens at any time.

Freeze authority

Whether the owner can freeze holder balances. An active freeze authority means your tokens could be locked in place.

Liquidity

Whether the LP is burned, time-locked, or unlocked. Burned LP can't be pulled; unlocked LP means the pool can be drained.

Top-10 holders

What share of supply the ten largest wallets hold. High concentration means a few wallets can dump the chart.

Bundled buys

Whether multiple buys in the deploy block share a funding source — a common sniper / insider pattern.

How the score works

The risk score rolls the five checks into a single 0–100 number and a verdict — clear, caution, or high risk. It's a beta heuristic meant to speed up your own read, not replace it. The underlying checks are facts; the score on top is our weighting of them, and it will keep improving.

Using the API

Kestrel is designed API-first so any app, bot or wallet can embed a risk read with one call. The public REST endpoint and a typed JS/TS SDK are on the roadmap.

POST /v1/scan
{ "address": "TokenMint…" }

→ { "score": 82, "verdict": "clear", "checks": { … } }

Endpoints are not live yet — this is the shape they'll take.

$KESTREL token

$KESTREL is the community token behind Kestrel, launching fair on Solana. The contract address appears here and across the site the moment it goes live.

Roadmap

• ├─ Phase 1 (now) — scanner on demo data, objective checks, beta score, public site & docs.
• ├─ Phase 2 (next) — live read-only RPC scans, public REST API, wallet X-ray, trust badge.
• ├─ Phase 3 — watchlists & alerts, community flagging, typed SDK.
• └─ Phase 4 — cross-chain scanning: one trust lens for all of crypto.

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