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# Welcome to Vigilan

Vigilan helps traders and investors understand the risks behind their positions and find ways to manage them.

Financial products make it easy to take exposure. Understanding that exposure can be harder. A position can be affected by price movements, funding costs, liquidity conditions, collateral requirements, platform incidents, or events outside the platform where it is held.

Vigilan connects risk awareness with practical ways to respond through two products:

| Product            | What it does                                                                                           | Where to start                            |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| **Vigilan AI**     | Helps identify relevant risks and discover potential hedges while you use supported financial websites | [vigilan.ai](https://vigilan.ai/)         |
| **Vigilan Market** | Lets participants trade event contracts that pay according to predefined outcomes                      | [vigilan.market](https://vigilan.market/) |

Vigilan AI helps you understand what may affect a position. Vigilan Market provides a place to take a corresponding position when a suitable market is available.

#### Our mission

Make risk management an accessible part of investing.

Our long-term scope includes users of financial products across digital assets and traditional markets. Crypto exchanges and DeFi are the starting point. Expansion into brokerage platforms, stocks, ETFs, and broader portfolio risk is part of the product direction.

Broader scope does not mean every asset, platform, or risk already has coverage. Supported integrations and available markets determine what you can use today.

#### Who Vigilan is for

* Investors who want to understand risks while maintaining an investment position.
* Traders managing price, funding, liquidity, and collateral exposure.
* Liquidity providers and yield participants evaluating risks beyond headline returns.
* Market participants willing to take the other side of a risk event or provide trading liquidity.

#### Two distinct steps

Finding a risk does not create a hedge. A hedge becomes a position only after an order has been executed, or through an enabled automated product under its own rules. A payout then depends on that contract's resolution conditions.


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