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# Imprinting a Wallet

Imprinting is the act of binding a Solana wallet to the shrine. It is the only way to become eligible for the shrine's fee-share epochs.

## What imprinting is

* A record that a given public wallet address is a **dweller** of the shrine.
* The record is off-chain (in the shrine's database) and stores **only the public wallet address** plus an optional seeker name and the SOL balance at the moment of imprinting.
* Once imprinted, the wallet is eligible for equal-split distributions in every subsequent epoch, for life.

## What imprinting is not

* **Not a deposit.** The shrine never receives, holds, or moves your funds during imprinting.
* **Not a transaction.** No signature is required. No gas is spent.
* **Not a purchase.** There is no token, no NFT, no product.
* **Not custodial.** The shrine cannot spend from an imprinted wallet.

## The flow

1. On the [Gate](/thesanctum-docs/surfaces/gate.md), scroll to the **Wallet Imprint** section.
2. Paste the **public address** of the Solana wallet you want to bind.
3. Optionally, enter a seeker name (60 characters max).
4. Submit.
5. The shrine validates the address, snapshots its current SOL balance for the record, and confirms with the wallet's short key and a Solscan link.

If the wallet is already imprinted, the shrine says so and returns the existing record rather than creating a duplicate.

## After imprinting

* The wallet appears in the count of eligible dwellers used at the next epoch close.
* All future equal-split distributions will land on the imprinted address directly on-chain.
* Nothing else changes about the wallet's security or ownership. Your keys remain yours; the shrine never sees them.


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