An update on our engagement with @Mastercard.
While Cardano was not included in the initial cohort of 85 launch partners, @emurgo_io has been actively engaging with their APAC team to change that and ensure our ecosystem is represented.
Following a leadership transition at Mastercard APAC —where our primary contact moved to EY — we have successfully connected with his successors. They were excited to speak with us and I am pleased to share we are now in the Qualification Stage for the Global Crypto Partner Program.
With the continued support of the Cardano community, I am confident in a positive outcome.
This important:
Please like and share to show @Mastercard the strength of our ecosystem. Mastercard is a global firm.. we need to show them that our inclusion into their Partner Program will make a difference to them. Surely this is an initiative the entire Cardano ecosystem can support! #cardano86
Let's go!!!
#cardano #mastercard @Cardano_CF@Cardano@IOGroup@midnightfdn
Development update 🎚️
Progress continues at a strong pace.
The volatility (mean reversion) strategy is now live in our testing environment, along with the required market data systems. Users will be able to configure bots to buy or sell when price deviates from a tuneable recent moving average by a chosen percentage.
The DCA strategy is also implemented in the testing environment with standard configurability.
The cross-dex arbitrage strategy is pending implementation, awaiting integration with Surge's second DEX, SundaeSwap.
Backtesting is in progress and will use multi year Cardano data. It will include chart visualizations with buy and sell points, trade sizes, and PnL. This will be integrated with all new strategies.
More platform content, including live testing, will be released this week.
Thanks to everyone for the support and feedback.
6.5% slippage on a stablecoin pair. $6,500 gone on a $100K trade.
This is real and worth highlighting - but also fixable.
USDCx launched on Cardano and its liquidity is building. Early days always look like this. The difference is now we have multiple stablecoins (USDCx, USDM, USDA, iUSD, DJED, ...) creating more routing paths, more pairs, more opportunities to tighten spreads through arbitrage.
What's missing is consistent automated market-making that runs 24/7 and keeps spreads tight across venues. When that layer comes to Cardano at scale, a $100K swap doesn't lose 6.5% - it loses 0.3%.
We're building toward that. Stablecoin liquidity on Cardano is early, but it won't stay this way. The tools to fix it are coming.
When you LP on CSWAP, you’re earning a token that represents 100% revenue share in the entire project.
Not inflation.
Real protocol revenue.
Like GMX on ethereum.
When liquidity behaves opportunistically, Cardano wins.
$ADA / $USDCx is live on CSWAP. 🤩
▪ 0.2% total trading fee
▪ 0.69 ADA batcher fee
▪ 100% revenue share reward token
▪ Up to 27% APR + $ADA rev share in staking rewards
If you’re providing @USDC liquidity on Cardano, these economics will work in your favor. 💪
If you’re on Cardano and don’t have at least one Baby Croc, don’t even trying to succeed. Only 2 left till 1000 floor 🐊
Ok! We’re giving away one free Baby Croc or $100 in $ADA to 2 lucky winners!
To enter:
➡️ RT, Like, and tag your $ADA friends
Surge Updates:
Recent accomplishments:
▫️The past few days our strategy fund achieved over 1M ADA in daily DEX trading volume for 2 consecutive days. Results were a net profit of ~500 ADA after ~800 ADA in DEX/LP fees.
▫️The throughput strategy has been fully stable for 2 weeks, with sweeping and timing frictions fully resolved.
▫️Our community has voted in favor of a DCA strategy as the second strategy to be released on the platform.
Upcoming strategy advancements:
▫️DCA strategy frontend and backend have been completed. The goal is competitive pricing and configurability compared to current offerings.
▫️A major milestone regarding market-conditions-based trade capabilities (Pinescript interpretation infra) was completed the end of last week. Arbitrage and grid/volatility strategies have made significant progress in parallel and will use this newly completed infrastructure at their core.
The most transformative couple of weeks/months are coming up in the history of Surge. Thanks to everyone for the support.
UEX US is a leading U.S. crypto platform to buy, sell & earn digital assets.
Together with @uex_us, I’m launching a giveaway open to EVERYONE.
How to participate:
➡️ Follow @uex_us
♻️ LIKE, RT & tag someone
🎁 One winner will receive $500 in ETH credited to their UEX US account.
GOOD LUCK👊🏾
Hello from Japan. Just signed the integration agreement for USDCx on Cardano. Welcome to Cardano Circle! We are all excited about the possibilities.
More from the Pentad soon
https://t.co/e7YtvXZdTH
The markets are RED & this used to stress me. Now that I have @uexcoin I no longer stress. RED days or GREEN days, they are all volume days & volume = profits to @uexcoin holders
🔹Reminder we started with 12 assets and 500k vol
🔹We now have over 70 assets & growing
🔹Perpetual loans & Savings account
🔹@uexcoin launch (uex utility token, 2nd feb 👀)
🔹Limit trades & mobile app 4 wks away 🤯🤯
🔹Debit card soon 💳👀
You can track uex trading volume 👉 https://t.co/o1PedBvUQb
You can learn about @uex_us in the discord, where you will find 3 white papers & a fantastic community 👉https://t.co/IWhViQQLLs
. @SurgeCardano has officially launched on Cardano, introducing a new layer of accessible, self-sovereign algorithmic trading to the ecosystem.
Built as a browser-based protocol, Surge allows users to create and run DEX trading bots on Cardano without writing code, lowering the barrier to automated strategies that were previously limited to advanced traders.
Beyond tooling, the protocol is designed to strengthen Cardano’s on-chain fundamentals by increasing transactions, DEX volume, and active wallets, while keeping ADA costs per unit of activity efficient.
We're excited to announce V2 is feature complete.
We’re now undergoing intensive testing and final security checks before mainnet.
We have a loaded schedule ahead as we release Strike V2, our native mobile app, and expand into new ecosystems.
Delegated trading vaults are scheduled to hit public testnet next week.
This introduces 2 core features:
1. Market Making Vault Users deposit liquidity to our market making vault and the capital is actively deployed by our MM bot to provide liquidity across the platform.
The MM bot is currently being audited by an engineer from one of the top market making firms in the world.
2. Onchain Hedge Funds Traders can create their own vaults allowing users to deposit funds and share the profits.
This unlocks an option for users who don’t want to trade actively or be stuck in the trenches. Now they can allocate capital to top traders and let professionals do the work, enforced by audited smart contracts with full onchain transparency.
The future is at our fingertips. Thanks to everyone for the support 🫡
Everything you need to know about Strike in 1 minute 👇
- All time volume: 1.3B ADA
- All time ADA to stakers: 1.69M ADA
- Liquidity providers: +4.9M ADA
- Stakers & LPs: +6.6M ADA
- STRIKE market cap: 39M ADA ($13M)
- MC rank (Cardano DeFi): 1st
- STRIKE/ADA liquidity: 3.15M ADA
- Circ supply: 91%
- Utility: staking to receive 100% of protocol revneue, governance, access more leverage (soon), discounted trading fees (soon)
- Upcoming: Strike V2, entrance into major ecosystems (ETH, SOL), liquidity expansion, liquid staking, mobile app
Strike V2 features
- low fees, fast settlement, world class experience
- native crosschain support
- trade major stocks and equities
- trading vaults introducing onchain hedge funds by delegating your money to top traders and sharing the profits
Thanks to everyone for the support.
Mainnet day 1 in the books 📕
Since our mainnet launch less than 24 hours ago, Surge has already begun facilitating on-chain trades and generating revenue.
Here are the stats so far:
▫️Over 1 Million ADA in DEX volume
▫️Over 1,000 ADA in Revenue
▫️Over 130 Unique Users
▫️Over 2,000 on-chain transactions
100% of this revenue will accumulate and be claimable by SURGE holders when our "holders page" goes live.
Since launch, community feedback has been valuable and is already being addressed.
We’re preparing expanded tutorials with in-depth guidance on common friction points, including strategy configuration, pair selection, and fund management.
Protocol updates begin rolling out tomorrow, including the following features and fixes:
▫️Wallet upload default file type (JSON vs CSV)
▫️Balance-aware min/max trade size hints
▫️Verified tokens and visible token IDs
▫️Bug fixes and performance improvements
▫️Full fee breakdown (Surge, DEX/chain, LP)
▫️Improved portfolio balance-over-time chart
Thanks everyone for the support and don't hesitate to keep the feedback rolling in.
Let's have a great rest of the week 🫡