Same day, different lifetime
Both products share the $4,000 day. They do not share what happens after a winning morning. Unlimited leaves the lifetime line at $92,000. Rapid can move the 6% trail up with equity, and the card does not promise that the trail waits for the close. Elite, the other 2-Step, is a static 10%, floor $90,000, which is more room than Unlimited and still not a trail. If someone sells you "Blue Guardian is 8%," they are describing Unlimited only.
Phase 1 at 8%, $8,000, equals the entire Unlimited maximum. You are trying to make what you are allowed to lose. Rapid asks you to make that $8,000 inside a trail that starts $2,000 smaller. Phase 2 on Unlimited is only 4%, $4,000, one daily loss. The second exam is the small one. The first exam, and the product choice, is the hard one.
Neither step makes you wait
Zero minimum trading days means Rapid is not faster because of a calendar. It is faster only if you accept a tighter, moving floor and you do not have a second target. Unlimited is two targets and a static floor, and you can still finish each phase without farming days. The payout after either path is the same published 85%, bi-weekly starting 14 days after the first funded trade. The $400 fee is the $100,000 price.
Guardian Shield sits on top of both: 1% to 2% floating loss, and repeated funded hits forfeit the account. You can sign up for Venasri and build a Rapid card and an Unlimited card before you pay, because the shield does not care which floor you picked.
Buy Unlimited unless you can sit a trail
Choose Unlimited when your method shows open profit and then gives some back. The static 8% ignores that giveback. Choose Rapid only if you can keep peak-to-trough equity inside a 6% trail and you do not want a second 4% target. Choose Elite if you specifically bought the 10% static line. Do not choose Rapid to "skip Phase 2" and then trade it with Unlimited lots. A $4,000 day is half of Unlimited's floor and most of Rapid's starting room.
Lock Equity Guard at 3.25%, $3,250, on either product. Add an $8,000 lifetime alarm for Unlimited, a $10,000 alarm for Elite, and a trail alarm for Rapid that you update when equity makes a high. The daily anchor is still the higher of balance or equity at 00:00 GMT+2 or GMT+3.
The bot does not get a looser shield on Rapid
EAs are allowed on both. The shield is mandatory either way. News on the funded account is a five-minute window unless the add-on is on, either way. Standard MT5 anti-hyperactivity limits apply on MT5, Match-Trader, and TradeLocker, either way. The only structural gift Rapid gives a bot is the missing second target. The trail and the shield take it back if the bot sizes for an 8% static book.
Bot Control should load the product you paid for and should keep a single ticket at or under $500, which is 0.50% and inside the 0.35% to 0.65% band. Two of those tickets can touch the 1% shield. Weekend holding is allowed on both and still counts gaps toward the $4,000 day.