What Surge is
1. Welcome to Surge for Surge's strategies and non-custodial model.
Surge is an automated trading platform for Cardano decentralised exchanges (DEX's). You describe a trading plan once: a grid, a dollar-cost-averaging schedule, a cross-DEX arbitrage watch, a set of price levels, or a volume schedule. Surge watches the market and prepares each trade at the right moment. Surge never holds your funds or keys.
What you can do with Surge
Buys low and sells high repeatedly inside a price band you choose
Buys or sells a fixed ADA amount on a fixed schedule
Buys a token, then sells it after the buy fills
Buys and sells simultaneously using two strategy wallets
Fires buys or sells when the price reaches levels you draw on the chart
Executes a planned schedule of buys and sells across your own wallets over 12–72 hours
A one-off swap, optionally split across several DEX's for a better price
Hold SURGE tokens to earn a share of protocol fees (paid in ADA) and a discount on your own fees
Surge trades on Minswap, SundaeSwap, WingRiders and Splash. See Supported DEX's for how they differ.
What Surge is not
Surge is not a custodial bot service. It does not have a server-side wallet that trades on your behalf; your browser signs every transaction with a key that only your browser holds, automatically and within limits you set, so you do not have to be at the computer. The practical consequence is that your strategies only run while your Surge browser tab is open. See How non-custodial works.
Surge is not a guarantee of profit. Every strategy page in these docs lists the fees a strategy pays and the ways it can lose money.
Who Surge is for
Surge assumes you already know what ADA, a wallet and a token swap are. It does not assume you know how Cardano DEX's settle trades, what a batcher is, or why an order can sit unfilled. How trading on Cardano DEXes works explains these concepts, and the Glossary defines each term.
Surge is a desktop application. Screens narrower than 768 pixels (phones) show a "desktop only" message; tablets and laptops work.
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