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Open /settings → Guardrails. These settings belong to the active profile. Check each current value before trading.
Guardrails and their current values in this example profile; these are not recommended settings.

Guardrails and their current values in this example profile; these are not recommended settings.

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Slippage

Slippage is the price movement you allow while a trade executes. It differs from price impact, which is how much the trade itself changes the market price.
  1. Send /slippage, use change on a token panel, or open Guardrails → Slippage.
  2. Choose 10 / 20 / 40 / 80%, or Custom.
  3. Enter a value from 1–100% and check the updated slippage line.
New-user slippage starts at 15%; existing settings may differ. Values above 20% show a warning. Raising tolerance can permit a worse fill, not just increase success.

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Guardrail reference

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Scam warnings

If the panel shows Scam warning, select Find out why to read the concern. Cancel leaves the buy. Buy anyway accepts the flagged trade; Disable scam warning changes the standing profile setting. With Scam warning on, flagged buys from auto-buy on paste, quick-buy, and group links are refused when no panel confirmation is available. Open the token manually to inspect it. A clean or pending scan is not a guarantee that a token can be safely bought or sold.
The Scam warning setting explains flagged-token confirmation.

The Scam warning setting explains flagged-token confirmation.

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Price-impact confirmations

Cove may request confirmation when estimated impact reaches 50%, or when it cannot verify the impact. The prompt shows what you spend and expect to receive. Sells are covered too.
  • Turning the setting off skips only the 50–90% confirmation band.
  • Extreme impact at 90% or above and unknown impact still require review.
  • If a refreshed quote is materially worse, Quote changed asks you to review again.
A one-time Buy anyway / Sell anyway on an eligible single-wallet market refusal applies to that fresh attempt; it does not change saved settings. This option is not offered for Paper or multi-wallet market refusals.
The High price-impact confirmation setting and the conditions that still require review.

The High price-impact confirmation setting and the conditions that still require review.

Automated orders can remain armed after Didn’t Fire. Their override has a separate lifecycle; see Manage orders.

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Large Buy/Sell confirmation

Open Guardrails → Large Buy/Sell confirm. Choose Large buy or Large sell and set $10k, $30k, $50k, $100k, Custom, or Disable for that side. Custom accepts $1–$10,000,000. Each side starts at $30k; your saved settings may differ. When the known total across all selected wallets is above the chosen threshold, cove asks for Confirm Buy or Confirm Sell before a market trade. With Per Wallet buying, count the amount for each selected wallet in that total. An eligible Trader Tracker Buy or Sell action uses the same check. If ordinary Buy confirm or Sell confirm already asks, cove does not add a duplicate size confirmation. An expired confirmation needs a fresh trade request.
Large Buy/Sell confirm settings with separate buy and sell sides, preset thresholds, Custom, and Disable.

Large buy and Large sell have separate thresholds. The values shown are this profile's saved settings.

This is a confirmation threshold, not a maximum trade size or a price-impact limit. It applies to market trades with a known amount, including supported bot and Positions Mini App flows. Limit, DCA, TP/SL, and other triggered orders do not use this size prompt. A sell whose value cannot be established before submission is not held by this check. Degen mode does not disable it; scam, slippage, liquidity, and price-impact checks still apply.

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Degen mode

Toggle Degen mode in Guardrails or the trading panel. It changes the three settings listed above while active. Turning it off restores saved values; editing slippage, liquidity protection, or max-buy adjustment exits Degen mode. Scam warning and high-impact confirmation remain independent.
Degen mode permits very large price movement and removes liquidity protection. It does not make a restricted token sellable or guarantee a fill.

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Gas surplus budget

  1. Open Guardrails → Gas surplus budget.
  2. Choose Off, $1, $3, $5, $10, or Custom.
  3. For Custom, enter $0–$50.
  4. Check the saved amount.
The current default is $10 per trade. Cove still sponsors eligible trading gas up to its separate $5 cap. The gas-surplus budget is an authorization ceiling for an eligible cost above that cap, not a flat $10 charge: only the qualifying rounded-up overage is charged, subject to available USDC. An October 2026 migration changed existing $0 budgets to the $10 default, including manually selected zero values. If you want Cove to ask before an eligible gas overage, set this budget to $0 again in each relevant profile. An overage authorization does not guarantee a fill or fix an unavailable trading route. Auto-pay gas up to on a failure message sets this future budget. It does not complete the current trade or recreate a failed stop.
Gas surplus budget: choose Off, a preset, or a custom per-trade limit.

Gas surplus budget: choose Off, a preset, or a custom per-trade limit.

For a worked explanation of sponsorship, trading fees and route costs, read the Cove gasless-trading guide.