Overview
Surge is a non-custodial trading tool for Cardano that automates buying and selling for you. You set up a strategy, such as steady scheduled buys or trades that chase price gaps between exchanges, and Surge runs it while your coins stay in your own wallet. It never takes custody of your funds and asks for no account or identity check.
Built for the Cardano ecosystem, Surge aims to give everyday traders the kind of automated tools that were previously the preserve of trading firms and custom-built bots. It reads prices straight from Cardano's on-chain exchanges and signs every trade on your own device, so your keys and money never leave your machine.
Key Features
- Hands-off buying on a schedule. Set a plan to buy a token at regular intervals so you spread purchases over time instead of trying to time the market. This approach is often called dollar-cost averaging1.
- Cross-exchange price-gap trades. Surge spots when the same token costs less on one Cardano exchange than another and acts on that gap automatically, routing the trade to the cheaper venue2.
- You keep your keys. Every trade is approved and signed on your own device, and your funds never move to a company server. There are no accounts and no identity checks, so you connect a Cardano wallet and start3.
- Several ways to build a strategy. Set simple limits through a point-and-click screen, build detailed rules with technical signals and test them against past data, or describe what you want in plain language and have it drafted for you4.
- Fee sharing for token holders. People who lock up the project's SURGE token earn a share of the trading fees Surge collects, paid out in ADA, and a larger stake unlocks lower trading fees5.
What to Expect
You connect a Cardano wallet, pick a strategy, and set the rules for how it should trade. Basic strategies use a simple screen where you set limits like how much to spend, how often, and when to stop. More advanced users can chain conditions together, back-test a plan against years of past Cardano data, or draft a strategy by describing it in plain words. A manual approval step and a stop control sit between your setup and any live trade.
Because Surge is non-custodial, you stay in control the whole time. Your wallet keys and funds never leave your device, and no strategy runs without your sign-off. The SURGE token adds a second layer for people who want it: staking the token earns a slice of protocol fees in ADA and lowers your own trading costs, while token holders also help steer the project's shared treasury5.
Surge is at the V2 mainnet beta stage, with early users trying strategies on Cardano's live network.
