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

# Why primal.

> Every Solana terminal sells speed. primal. is a signal engine with a public, auditable record, and the terminal is just how you act on it.

Fast fills, a new-coin firehose, a wall of settings: every terminal ships them, and they are
table stakes. Speed is a commodity. A terminal that is only a terminal is a faster way to lose
to the same noise.

primal. is built on a different claim: **what deserves your attention can be measured, and the
measurement should be public.**

## The four things a terminal cannot fake

|               | A typical terminal                            | primal.                                                                                               |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| What surfaces | Everything that deploys, ranked by raw volume | A curated pipeline: real participation, true volume, clean structure                                  |
| Track record  | None. Feeds never show their scoreboard       | [Prime](/alpha/prime-trending) is append-only and never repaints: every call judged by what you saw   |
| Scoring       | Trending arrows                               | [PrimalScore](/alpha/primalscore): evidence strength times on-chain legitimacy, frozen at signal time |
| Your wallet   | Positions you opened through them             | The [full scan](/portfolio/cleanup): every account, dust included, plus recovery                      |

## The record is the product

Anyone can call tokens. The question that matters is what happened to the calls, and most feeds
are structured so you can never check. Prime is structured so you always can: entry market cap,
score, and time are frozen the moment a call fires, and the wins sit next to the losses forever.
A feed that keeps score in public has to be good. That pressure is the point.

## Curation over firehose

Thousands of coins deploy every day. A deploy is not a market, and printed volume is not demand.
The [signals feed](/radar/signals-feed) exists because watching the raw firehose creates zero
value: primal. analyzes market metrics and participants in real time and surfaces only what
holds up. You watch a short list that earned its place.

## Execution you can reason about

The trading layer is engineered to be honest rather than merely fast: fees are
[atomic](/security/transactions) with the swap, protected trades
[never fall back](/trading/presets) to the public mempool, confirmations are watched to the
chain's real deadline, and the fee model is [two numbers](/fees) with no tiers behind them.

The terminal is how you act. The engine and its record are why you would.