> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dequan.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Scout

Scout is Dequan's free tier and the default landing place for every new user. It exists because we believe the best advertisement for a trading tool is letting traders use it.

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  Open the live app, connect a wallet or sign in with email, and start with the full feature set.
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## What's included

**Everything.** Read [Tiers Overview](/tiers/overview) for the full list — but the short version:

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  <Card title="Full Pump Zone" icon="globe">
    Spatial feed, all velocity bands, all formations, milestone flags, leaderboard, candle drawer. The entire centerpiece, no parts missing.
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  <Card title="Full chart suite" icon="chart-line">
    TradingView Advanced Charts + Cinematic 1-second engine. Multi-timeframe, popout charts, all overlays, all signals.
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  <Card title="Full execution pipeline" icon="bolt">
    Pre-execution warmup, adaptive fees, adaptive slippage, parallel landing. The same speed the upgraded tiers get.
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  <Card title="Full safety stack" icon="shield-halved">
    Honeypot Guard, liquidity drain detection, holder/dev surveillance, fee transparency. All on, all the time.
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  <Card title="Lightning Wallet (capped)" icon="bolt-lightning">
    The custodial fast-trading wallet with a Scout-tier balance cap appropriate for retail-scale sniping.
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  <Card title="Token Quality Score" icon="star">
    The HOT/WARM/COOL classification across every token, every chart, every list view.
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  <Card title="Sniper List" icon="list-check">
    The dense ranked-list view as an alternative to the Pump Zone.
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  <Card title="Burn Barrel" icon="fire">
    The dust-sweeping toolbox utility.
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  <Card title="Referral program participation" icon="user-plus">
    Earn from your referrals at the standard tier rate.
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  <Card title="Same support" icon="circle-question">
    Same docs, same support channel, same response.
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## What Scout's *limits* look like

Scout has limits — that's what makes it Scout — but the limits are calibrated for genuine retail trading, not artificially crippled to push upgrades.

* **Daily trade volume cap.** A maximum cumulative SOL volume per 24-hour window. Generous enough that the average active retail trader will never hit it.
* **Per-session rate limits.** Standard rate-limit boundaries to keep the platform stable for everyone.
* **Lightning Wallet balance cap.** Bounded balance suitable for retail sniping. Excess can be withdrawn back to your main wallet at any time.
* **Standard fee tier.** The base platform fee rate.
  If you hit the daily volume cap regularly, that is a strong signal that you'd benefit from an invite to Sniper. We'd rather you find that out by hitting the limit than by reading marketing copy about it.

## Why is the free tier this generous?

The honest answer:

1. **The marginal cost of a Scout user is tiny.** Most of the platform's cost is fixed — data feeds, infrastructure, engineering. Adding another Scout user adds a small per-call cost that the platform absorbs comfortably.
2. **Scout users become Sniper users.** Not all of them, but the ones who grow into serious volume become the platform's high-value users. Crippling Scout would lose those traders to a competitor *before* they grew.
3. **Word of mouth is the best growth.** Free Scout users telling friends "this is actually fast" is worth more than any paid acquisition campaign.
4. **It's the right thing to do.** Charging for safety features feels gross. Charging for the feature set when the marginal cost of that feature set is near zero feels gross. We'd rather feel good about the product.

## The practical bottom line

You can sign up right now, connect a wallet, fund Lightning if you want, and have access to a tool that — measured by feature surface — costs other platforms $50–$200/month behind paywalls.

The catch is: there isn't one. Scout is the real product, and so are you.

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  How invite-only tiers work and what they actually unlock.
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