# How It Works

### Address Classification

Every address is classified into behavioral groups based on its full interaction history, not labels from a single transaction, but patterns across the entire on-chain footprint.

* **Organic** — real users making their own decisions. Experienced traders, retail participants, degens.
* **Linked** — wallets with coordination patterns. Farm clusters, bounded wallets, isolated addresses. When a token shows "200K holders" and most are Linked, that number is fiction.
* **Automated** — bots. Arbitrage, DeFi interactions, single-token strategies. Volume that follows code, not conviction.
* **dApps/CEX** — infrastructure. DEX routers, bridges, protocol contracts, exchange deposits.

Classification evolves as on-chain behavior evolves. These are high-level groups, more subcategories are under the hood.

### Behavioral Triggers

Hundreds of triggers detect shifts in who is doing what inside a token's ecosystem. Not price events, but behavioral events.

What they detect: sybil clusters activating after dormancy, organic trading volume surging or collapsing, insider wallets routing to CEX exits, cross-group flow asymmetries, bot rotation patterns, persistent corridor formation between behavioral groups.

Each trigger returns a signal, its value, and context within the current price phase.

### Price Phase Detection

Stargazer's AI determines where each token sits in its market cycle, not from price charts, but from behavioral triggers. Five phases, each with a distinct behavioral signature:

* **Bearish** — no real demand on-chain. Bots dominate trading, organic participation is minimal. Price may move on external catalysts but the ecosystem shows no internal momentum.
* **Pre-Growth** — first signs of organic activity after silence. Real users' share of trading starts rising, direction forming but not confirmed. Early signal.
* **Growth** — organic participation confirmed and expanding. Real buying is happening, but insiders who positioned during pre-growth are already beginning to exit into the rising liquidity.
* **Peak** — exhaustion, not celebration. Highest signal density of any phase. Everyone exits at once through different doors: insiders dismantle positions off-market, retail deposits to exchanges, farm wallets reconsolidate. The chart may still look strong while the behavioral structure is already collapsing.
* **Pre-Bearish** — momentum fading. Organic participation dropping, distribution accelerating. The trend is losing steam before price confirms the reversal.