Guardrails

Guardrails control checks that run before or during a trade.

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Available controls

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Slippage

Choose 10%, 20%, 40%, or 80%, or enter a custom value from 1% to 100% with up to two decimal places. Higher slippage gives a volatile trade more room to fill, but it also accepts a wider price difference.

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Degen mode

Degen mode reduces safeguards for the selected trade. Review your slippage and guardrail settings before enabling it.

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Auto-adjust max buy

When a token contract limits the maximum buy, this setting reduces your order to the contract limit. It removes the need to calculate the maximum manually.

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Liquidity protection

Liquidity protection checks the requested buy against reported pool liquidity and blocks buys that are too large for the pool.

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High price-impact confirmation

Enable this setting to require an additional confirmation for trades with high price impact.

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Gas Surplus Budget

Gas Surplus Budget is a per-trade limit. Choose Off, $1, $3, $5, $10, or Custom. Off means Cove asks before charging a surplus. When the sponsored amount does not cover the network cost, an approved surplus can be deducted from the unified USDC balance.