# Start here

### Your Community Has a Problem

Your Discord or Telegram is full of people who don't actually hold your token. Bots. Lurkers. Traders who dumped weeks ago but still have access to your alpha channels. You're giving away value to people who don't deserve it.

Meanwhile, your actual holders—the ones who've been riding with you for months—get the same access as someone who bought yesterday and will sell tomorrow.

**That's broken.**

### What Ancla Does

Ancla gates your community based on what people actually hold in their wallets, not what they claim. Tokens, NFTs, holding period—all verified on-chain from Solana.

But here's the difference: Ancla doesn't just check balances. It checks **conviction**.

How long have they held? How much have they accumulated? Are they active traders or diamond hands? Ancla lets you reward the real ones and filter out the noise.

**5-minute setup. Automatic verification. No more manual role assignments.**

### What You Want to Do?

**→ I run a community** (Discord or Telegram)\
You want to gate channels, assign roles automatically, and reward holders based on conviction. Start with the Community Owner Quickstart.

**→ I'm trying to verify my wallet**\
You got a verification link from a gated community. Here's what to do in the Holder Quickstart.

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**Built for Solana. Works with tokens and NFTs. Free for communities under 25 members.**