Notifications and alerts
11. Managing strategies, alerts and settings to configure alerts and signing preferences.
Surge tells you about important events in three ways: in-app notifications (the bell in the header), email (for strategy warnings, once you verify an address), and toasts for live events while the tab is open. Browser push notifications can be enabled in Settings, but [VERIFY: the current build registers a placeholder device token, so push messages are not actually delivered].
In-app notifications
The bell shows two tabs: Notifications (persisted messages from Surge) and System alerts (live health issues). Unread state is tracked per notification in this browser. Messages you will see:
Login
Sign-in alert
Email added or verified
Confirmation
Staking epoch finalised with a reward for you
"New rewards available"
Staking payout sent
"Rewards sent"
Cadence order failed 5 times
Strategy warning
Broadcasts from Surge
Announcements
Settings → General → Notification settings. Enter an email, receive a 5-digit code (valid 5 minutes), enter it to verify. Verified emails receive strategy warning emails — for example when a Cadence order has failed repeatedly. Unsubscribe removes the address.
Toasts and live events
While the tab is open, Surge shows toasts for order confirmations (only for transactions you placed), strategy errors, an arbitrage strategy stopped by its risk limits, signing prompts, session expiry, and network or socket problems. A socket status pill in the header aggregates the health of the live channels (price feed, each strategy type, transactions); hover for per-channel detail. The price chart shows LIVE / STALE / RECONNECTING / OFFLINE for the price feed.
System alerts
Derived from live state and shown on the dashboard and in the bell's System alerts tab: strategy execution errors, per-strategy arbitrage connection errors, unexpected pauses, a strategy wallet under 5 ADA, balance-lookup failures, strategy conflicts, failed orders. They clear when the condition clears.
What Surge does not notify
A strategy that stopped trading because the tab was closed (Cadence skips orders silently).
Grid or rule-based pauses (visible only on the strategy page and dashboard).
Fills — check the trade log or the transaction toast.
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