# Introduction

Welcome to Surge. We'll build out this docs over time but for now we are just using this to provide resources and tutorials on using our public testnet. Here's a quick 10 second introduction.

* Surge is the first non-custodial, permissionless market making platform on Cardano
* Built to bring professional grade automated trading to anyone, regardless of skill level
* Capable of Billions of dollars in monthly Cardano on-chain activity
* Lead developer contributed to core Cardano infrastructure
* Audit by leading Cardano firm in progress 

For more links and resources, see [here](https://linktr.ee/surgecardano). Thank you for the support and we hope you enjoy using the platform.

**Official Presale Portal:** <https://sale.surgecardano.com/>\
\&#xNAN;**$SURGE Token ID:** e992ef75f2367e6ecd93716ae88eba0d005dd91fd3a21f650b6496b5


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