Sneakers & Streetwear

Stop bots from buying every drop before your real fans can.

AIO bots exhaust limited sneaker releases in milliseconds. Kairal detects and mitigates bot buyouts at the edge — before they reach your queue — so your drops sell to the people who actually care about your brand.

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The problem in sneakers

Drops engineered for hype — hijacked by automation.

12B

Illegal raffle entries every month

Nike alone reports 12 billion fraudulent raffle entries each month. For smaller streetwear brands, bots can dominate the entire drop window.

Queue-it · Nike

< 300ms

AIO bots complete checkout this fast

Kodai, Wrath, Ganesh, NSB and similar AIOs run the full flow faster than a human can load the page, let alone reach add-to-cart.

Public AIO bot benchmarks

10–15×

Resale premiums distort the market

When secondary markets hit 10× retail within hours of a drop, the brand halo you built shifts to whoever owns the inventory.

StockX · resale market

How Kairal protects sneakers

Drops that reach fans, not resellers.

01

Edge interception before the queue opens

Kairal deploys at Cloudflare, AWS, NGINX, or OpenResty — typically in under 2 hours. Every incoming session is fingerprinted before it enters the queue.

02

Dual-engine scoring on every entry

Heuristic rules catch known AIO bot signatures instantly. The ML engine scores behavioural signals — keystroke cadence, mouse entropy, scroll depth — to catch new variants the rules miss.

03

Proxy and residential IP unmasking

Scalper infrastructure runs on residential proxies. Kairal correlates TLS fingerprints, ASN, geo/timezone mismatch and session velocity to flag proxy-masked entries even when the IP looks clean.

04

Silent challenges instead of CAPTCHAs

Real fans complete entry and checkout as normal. Suspicious sessions get an invisible challenge that resolves in the background — no puzzles, no interruptions.

Coverage

Threats specific to sneaker drops.

Bot buyouts

AIO bots exhaust the entire drop allocation in seconds, before real customers can add to cart.

Scalper bots

Queue-jumping bots hoard inventory across many accounts to flip on StockX and GOAT within hours.

Proxy attacks

Residential proxy networks make each bot request appear to come from a unique consumer IP.

Fake accounts

Bot-created accounts claim multiple raffle entries per drop, multiplying unfair advantage at scale.

Impact

What changes when bots can’t buy.

< 25ms

Decision latency

Every session scored and actioned at the edge in under 25ms. Drop pages stay fast under peak bot load.

Edge or origin deployment
Invisible

Zero friction for fans

Silent challenges run in the background. Legitimate customers complete checkout without a single CAPTCHA or puzzle.

No CAPTCHAs, no interruption
Free

Pilot with your real traffic

Run Kairal across an actual drop and see exactly which bots were attacking before you commit to anything.

Onboarding design partners now
Sneakers & Streetwear

Your next drop should sell to fans, not scalper bots.

Go live in under 2 hours. Free pilot with your real traffic — see exactly which bots are attacking your drops before you commit to anything.

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