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What's next for Surge: Market-conditions based trades Surge launched just over a month ago. It showcased the platforms core functionality: Non custodial, code-free Cardano trade automation. Trades were pre-determined based on size and frequency. The next era of Surge introduces market conditions as signals for trade execution. This will be enabled by PineScript, a language that lets users write custom, open rules for when to buy and sell assets. PineScript is used across most financial markets as fundamental infrastructure. For example, a strategy could say: buy 1,000 units of Asset X on DEX A and simultaneously sell 1,000 units of the same asset on DEX B whenever the price on DEX A is 5 percent lower than the price on DEX B. This dramatically enhances Surge's capabilities, allowing users to run 24/7 profit-targeting strategies. In depth progress on these developments can be found in our Discord. Thanks to everyone for the support.

Development Update 🔧 Surge has been live on Mainnet for 10 days. So far, our community has provided valuable feedback. Amidst thousands of successful transactions, there have been issues with the app that we recognize and are addressing. We're moving to new blockchain data services that should clear up the majority of tx issues. In terms of strategy capabilities, our Pinescript interpreter is nearing completion. This will allow hundreds of financial trading algorithms to be deployable across Cardano DEXs and CNTs. The team is hard at work daily to get it done, and we will provide a timeline when we are confident of one. Thank you for the continued support and have a great end of the week 🫡

How Surge Generates Significantly Higher On Chain Volume per ADA of Liquidity At a high level, Cardano dApp activity falls into two categories: Category 1: Trading Examples include swapping CNT A for CNT B on a DEX, borrowing CNT A against collateral on a lending platform, or using CNT A to gain leveraged exposure to CNT B on a perps platform. Category 2: Yield Examples include depositing assets into a DEX liquidity pool to earn LP fees from traders, or supplying assets to a lending pool to earn interest from borrowers. Surge operates in Category 2: Yield generation, but with a fundamentally different asset deployment model. In traditional liquidity pools, assets remain largely static inside a single smart contract. Only a fraction of pooled liquidity is actively traded on a daily basis. As a result, a relatively small percentage of deposited assets contribute to daily Cardano on chain transaction volume. Surge deploys assets differently. Liquidity is actively routed through Category 1: Trading for the purpose of yield generation. A simple example is arbitrage. If a stablecoin trades below $1, Surge buys it using user liquidity up to post fee profitability limits. If it trades above $1, Surge sells it. This process can occur repeatedly throughout the day. Because assets are actively traded rather than sitting idle, the same liquidity can be transacted many times within a 24 hour period. This allows Surge to generate yield while cycling liquidity through the chain multiple times. In practice, this means liquidity deployed through Surge can generate many multiples more on chain transactions and volume than traditional liquidity pools while targeting similar yield outcomes. For example, assets in a standard liquidity pool may see a volume to liquidity ratio of around 10% per day, while assets deployed through Surge may regularly reach ratios of 1,000% per day. Increased on chain transactions and volume benefit the entire Cardano ecosystem and directly contribute to treasury growth. Importantly, traditional liquidity provision remains one of the most valuable components of the ecosystem both optically and functionally. As trade automation platforms like Surge increase transaction activity, they also increase fee generation for liquidity providers, creating a positive, self reinforcing cycle between on chain volume and ecosystem liquidity.

The Surge product, explained: Surge is a browser app that allows anyone with a Cardano dApp wallet to easily build CNT trading bots. You can launch bots that trade on Cardano DEX's from your instructions, no code required. Surge runs locally, with funds staying strictly on your personal device. Our mainnet application launches in 48 hours. Thanks for the support and have a great weekend ➡️

Back and steady in the top 3 🔥 Surge is currently 2nd in 24H Cardano DEX trading volume with over 500k ADA and 700 daily transactions. Our strategy fund is at work supporting this volume with single-venue volatility trading and is operating at roughly 10% throughput capacity. This same trading strategy will be available to all Cardano teams beginning this coming Monday on our mainnet launch. Thanks to everyone for the support and have a great weekend 🫡

We're excited to announce Surge Mainnet is launching this coming Monday, January 19th 🔥 Surge is a non-custodial Cardano protocol built to arm the ecosystem with user friendly algorithmic trading power. Surge is designed to increase Cardano KPIs as efficiently as possible. See you Monday 🗓️

Testnet V2 tutorial can be found here: 🔎 docs.surgecardano.com/public…

We're excited to announce our V2 public testnet is now live. V2 is a next generation automated trading protocol for Cardano. Build trading strategies, execute on Cardano DEXs, and stay 100% in control of your funds. Link: 🔌 testnet.surgecardano.com

We are excited to announce our testnet V2 launches tomorrow 🔥 V2 marks the official public release of the revamped Surge platform, prepared for full mainnet operation. Testing will take place on Cardano Pre Prod testnet with access to Minswap testnet pools. Final platform adjustments based on feedback following tomorrows testnet are expected to take under two weeks to implement, aligning with a mid January mainnet launch. We will post the testnet link here tomorrow along with updated documentation. Here is a sneak peek of the strategy fund running right now on our updated platform 👇

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Surge targets Cardano DEX volume and active users directly with the strongest resource-to-volume-generation mechanism to date by a wide margin. Our Catalyst Fund 15 proposal, for example, proposes the use of 200k ADA to run spread and arbitrage strategies on Cardano DEXs that target maximum daily volume. The goal is 50 to 100+ million in Cardano DEX volume over a 2 to 8 month span and 500-5000 monthly active wallets. This represents an expected 500x multiple of ADA resources in generated volume, which is considered the most critical factor on Cardano today for attracting investment and users. Furthermore, the portion of this 200k ADA that is gradually absorbed by fees flows primarily to two beneficial places 1.) right back to the Cardano treasury (via chain fees), and 2.) to Cardano liquidity pools (via LP fees)

Friday Development Update 🔧 New Developer Onboarding: Madjd spent the beginning of the week onboarding and aligning on the codebase. After this, he began with core contributions. ▫️Optimized imports and environment variables. ▫️Added the Joi package for environment variable validation, which; ▫️Ensures the server will not start without all required variables defined. ▫️Prevents runtime errors and improves system stability. ▫️Reduces the need for repetitive runtime validation, improving performance and optimization. New Strategy Scheduler Mechanism: Humam continued development on the strategy schedule system, which generates a 24-hour execution plan for automated trading strategies. ▫️Produces a time-ordered schedule of buy/sell orders within defined constraints. ▫️Enables predictable, transparent, and controllable trading behavior. ▫️Supports up to 720 trades per day, distributed across 48 time windows of 30 minutes each. ▫️Orders are allocated by volume, randomized within rules, and timestamped at 2-minute minimum intervals. ▫️The system returns a complete 24h schedule, per-window breakdowns, and remaining volume reports if limits are reached. This design allows full customization without modifying the core codebase (e.g., changing Surge fee parameters directly via GitHub). Humam also led the onboarding process with Madjd. Transaction Logic Updates: Jann implemented a new fund allocation system for each trade. ▫️Introduced transaction chaining, linking wallets consecutively to streamline execution. ▫️Each swap now sources funds from a single wallet, with one Minswap contract call per swap. ▫️Minimized or eliminated inter-wallet transactions, enabling operation across 500+ wallets efficiently. ▫️Improved wallet transparency and structure. ▫️Continued progress on PineScript integration. Looking Forward: Mainnet testing of the reconfigured Strategy Fund operation is planned for this weekend, with results expected early next week. Pending performance, trade volume will be increased. Full Strategy Fund deployment remains on track for early December, with public mainnet release targeted for Q4. All other operations are stable. Ongoing discussions continue with Cardano projects exploring their own strategy fund integrations and arbitrage applications. Thanks to everyone for the continued support. Have a good weekend 🫡

Friday Development Update 🔧 This week’s focus has been on improving flexibility, performance, and forecasting across the Surge backend and strategy engine. After several months of searching, we are pleased to share that a new backend developer will be joining the team full time this Monday, strengthening our already solid development base and significantly increasing our overall speed. Here's what we've been working on the past week: ▫️Testing Pine Script interpreter for user-defined strategy support ▫️Expanded transaction building code for more adaptable strategy logic ▫️Added an observer to the backend server for better logging and faster bug detection ▫️Introduced a trade forecasting feature that generates a 24-hour execution plan for each strategy, making trading schedules more predictable and controllable ▫️Added a primary wallet feature for specific trading pairs (in progress) ▫️Implemented auto balancing between buy and sell orders at defined intervals ▫️General performance improvements across backend systems Thank's everyone for the support and have a great weekend 🫡

Currencies, Markets, and the Engine of Cardano Activity The strength of any currency lies in its usage. Fungibility, the ability for one unit to hold identical value everywhere, depends on assets being continuously bought and sold for that currency. Without active use, even the most elegant currency design holds no value. MAU, TVL, and transaction volume are seen by investors as the most important metrics for investment in the blockchain industry, and for good reason: they are the same fundamentals that have defined every successful currency throughout history. Modes of Exchange Economies operate through two forms of trade: ▫️Profit driven, where participants exchange primarily for financial return ▫️Utility driven, where trade fulfills a direct resource or distribution need Globally, $10 to $15 trillion in profit driven trades occur daily, with the thinnest margins narrowing to as little as 0.001%. These trades exploit price inefficiencies in anything with monetary value: cars, real estate, manufacturing equipment, equities, and so on. Why Surge Matters On Cardano, utility driven exchange is still limited by the real world value represented on chain, making organic growth slower. Profit driven exchange, however, holds existing opportunity and can be automated, and this is where Surge comes in. Surge enables continuous, automated trading at scale for anyone. Because on-chain activity has intrinsic value to Cardano, running strategies even at minimal profit margins creates meaningful value for the entire ecosystem. As profit thresholds drop, transaction opportunities multiply, directly increasing network activity while keeping trades purposeful, stabilizing prices, maintaining pegs, and improving liquidity. Surge becomes a mechanism not only for individual profit but for reinforcing Cardano’s core metrics, the ones that drive usage, investment, and visibility that benefit everyone. By lowering the barrier to efficient trading, Surge unlocks the next phase of Cardano growth, converting untapped profit-based opportunities into a decentralized, self reinforcing system of on-chain activity. Activity begets activity, and Surge targets a clear, scalable source of it.

The Surge token represents the core ideas of decentralization. Here’s what it accomplishes: ▫️Decentralizes project success through revenue sharing in ADA ▫️Decentralizes major decision-making through governance rights ▫️Decentralizes product access by rewarding higher token participation with lower fees and reduced limits Participation in these utilities requires active involvement: ▫️Stake Surge (once the holders portal is live on mainnet), ▫️Provide LP to the Surge/ADA pair on a DEX, or ▫️Run strategies on the Surge/ADA pair All $SURGE across these options contributes equally to revenue, governance, and fee benefits and is aggregated for each wallet. Built on Cardano, we strive to share its core values of decentralization and community. Thanks for the support 🫡

Total 24-hour DEX volume across crypto: nearly $24 billion. Cardano: $2.9 million. That is roughly 0.01% of all on-chain DEX volume in the industry. This is surprising, considering Cardano is built on one of the most advanced blockchain architectures in existence: ▫️ Native liquid staking ▫️ Industry-leading uptime ▫️ Extremely compact chain size (<200 GB, compared to Solana’s ~300 TB) ▫️ On-chain governance infrastructure ▫️ Deterministic transaction costs ▫️ $1 billion+ treasury ▫️ Over 2,000 independent stake pool operators ▫️ Low insider allocation ▫️ Native assets So why is on-chain activity still so low? A few things continue to hold Cardano back: ▫️ High DEX pool fees ▫️ Limited L2 infrastructure ▫️ Low stablecoin liquidity ▫️ Lack of accessible automated trading tools The good news is that every one of these challenges can be solved, and solutions are already being built. Cardano’s foundation is arguably the strongest in crypto. What it needs now is infrastructure that utilizes it. The foundation is built. The future is bright. It's time to surge.

One of our main goals is to help more Cardano native assets secure listings on major exchanges 🤝 Here is what we are focused on achieving for projects across the ecosystem: ▫️ Higher trading activity, both daily and sustained ▫️ Strong volume-to-market cap ratios ▫️ Growth in active holder count ▫️ Deeper liquidity We've been assessing key listing factors and will be supporting teams in executing effective market strategies as we approach our mainnet launch. Cardano’s time in the spotlight is fast approaching 🔥

Cardano native assets represent a combined market cap of 1.5 billion ADA, yet daily DEX volume is only 4 million ADA. This equates to a daily turnover rate below 0.3%. For comparison, Solana’s native assets exceed a 4% daily turnover rate. If Cardano native assets matched Solana’s turnover, daily Cardano DEX volume would increase more than 15x, surpassing 60 million ADA per day. Surge makes this possible. First mainnet strategies go live this month.