DOC — MECHANICS
How it works
Two layers, one verdict. Both are engineered around the same principle: evidence you can check, not scores you have to trust.
A On-chain forensics — live
The scan pipeline
01
You paste a contract address
From the site, the API, or straight from a chat with the AI Agent. No wallet connection, no sign-up.
02
The chain answers
SentryHood reads public mainnet records through the official explorer: bytecode, verified source, creation transaction, and the deployer's full history.
03
Forensics assemble
Source audit, launch origin, serial-deployment checks, funding trace, holder concentration — each check produces a labeled finding with a weight, not a hidden score.
04
One readable verdict
Findings sum into a 0–100 risk score with a plain-language verdict. Every point of that score is something you can inspect and verify yourself.
B Trust Feed Machinery
When an account gets compromised, minutes matter
The 2023 Robinhood X takeover and the 2026 executive-account incidents followed the same script: hijack, post a token, harvest. SentryHood compresses the gap between the post and your warning.
01 · Attacker
Hijacks a verified project account
02 · Account
Posts a new token + link
03 · Monitor
Pattern break → status: under review
04 · Curators
Rapid confirm → status: compromised
05 · You
Alert lands before you buy
Target: detection → curator confirmation → subscriber alert in minutes
Verified Directory
A curated registry of official project, team and infrastructure accounts on X — the baseline the monitor watches.
Anomaly detection
Posting-pattern breaks trigger an under-review state: sudden contract promotion, new links, tone shifts, deleted history.
Curator confirmation
Staked curators review flagged accounts fast. Accurate calls earn from the reward pool; wrong calls get slashed.
Real-time alerts
Confirmed compromises push to Telegram, Discord and web within minutes — before the malicious post finishes circulating.
C Straight answers
Feasibility, without the varnish
Is the on-chain part real?
Fully. Deployer identity, creation transactions, prior deployments, funding flows and holder balances are all public records. The scanner live on this site already uses them — no stubs, no fixtures.
What about the X / social side?
Feasible but not free. X API search and streaming are paid, rate-limited products. We plan for them as infrastructure, and complement them with crowdsourced community reports so coverage never depends on a single paid pipe.
Will history be complete on day one?
The promoter database builds from the day monitoring starts and compounds in value every day after. Accounts watched from genesis have complete trails; the long tail fills in over time.
Why not just another contract scanner?
That category is saturated — lookalike scanners with zero defensible data assets. The empty seat is the social layer: who is behind the contract and who is selling it to you. That is where SentryHood competes.