# Abilities and Scouts

## What Are Abilities?

A wallet address’s abilities are everything its owner can do based on: 

* the tokens it holds 
* the allowlists it’s on, and 
* the contracts it has interacted with 

Abilities are not open actions available to any wallet address, but rather actions customized to someone’s on-chain identity and history.

### Examples

* Claim airdrops
* Mint derivatives
* Access chats
* Vote on proposals
* Renew ENS
* Attend events
* Unlock shops
* Delegate votes
* Revoke access
* Claim POAPs

### Composition

An ability consists of three main components:

* Content – the title, description, image, type, and dates of an ability
* Requirements – what is necessary to access this ability: be on an allowlist, hold a token, etc
* Action – the link to go complete the ability

Abilities can be on-chain – calling functions on contracts – or off-chain – getting access to an Internet or IRL experience.

### Relevance

Not all abilities belong on Daylight. Scams, spam, and shill abilities can clog up our feeds, making it harder for users to find really great abilities. However, there are a few other things that make up a good ability – check out the “Verifying Potential Abilities” section of this guide for more details. And, if all else fails, you can always ask about an ability in the #questions channel on the Daylight Discord.

## Who Are Scouts?

Every ability on Daylight comes from one of two sources: Suppliers or Scouts.

**Suppliers** are products that help communities and creators make abilities: token-gated chats/events/shops, allowlisted mints or airdrops, DAO votes, etc. Examples of suppliers: Guild, Snapshot, Shopify, and ZORA Create. Suppliers programmatically submit all the token-gated and allowlisted abilities they help communities and creators make.

But some of the best abilities are one-off, custom experiences that need to be added by the Daylight **Scout** community. Examples:

* [Poolsuite](https://opensea.io/collection/poolsuite-executive-member)’s [Grand Leisure](https://grandleisure.org/) mint
* The [HyperLoot](https://hyperlootproject.com/) derivative mint for [Loot](https://www.lootproject.com/)
* [ScottieWifi](https://www.spottiewifi.io/)’s holders-only [ecommerce shop](https://spottiewifi.myshopify.com/)

These abilities are added to Daylight by Scouts like you!

Daylight is a map for your web3 adventure – it tells you all of your special abilities and lights up the path ahead, much like a guide in a video game. If web3 is a map-based game, Daylight Scouts are the cartographers, exploring the space ahead, coming back with special knowledge to tell everyone else, and earning badges along the way.