$SURGE - The END-GAME of Internet Capital Markets and Launchpads
Have you ever seen a crypto project launched by a company that’s partnered with Google, Meta, OpenAI, AWS, Nvidia, IBM, Solana, Circle, Fetch.ai, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, and even the New York Stock Exchange? All while sitting around $40m mcap?
Meet $SURGE, the END-GAME of launchpads going live this week.
Let's dive into why I'm betting $350,000 on this launchpad.
What SURGE Actually Is
Surge is the first REAL AI-native launchpad and funding rail built for real AI founders. Remember the AI mania we experienced last year? Imagine that, but with hundreds of thousands of top AI founders who are DOX’d, building in public, NOT building slop, and receiving funding from the top AI companies in the world.
This is different from your typical launchpad and incubator.
Surge isn't just a launchpad. It's the infrastructure layer for Internet Capital Markets.
AI accelerates execution.
Web3 provides transparent, global, instant liquid capital formation.
Together, Surge turns startup funding from a gated VC process into a permissionless, reputation-weighted market.
The Founder - Pawel Czech
The NYSE invited Pawel to NYSE Wired: The Future of AI
This founder is fundamentally the absolute BEST founder candidate in the ENTIRE WORLD for a launchpad. I'll prove it.
Pawel Czech is the founder of:
lablab.ai (230,000+ AI developers)
New Native (enterprise AI)
GAIA (Saudi-backed AI accelerator)
He’s worked with and partnered with nearly every major AI company on the planet:
Meta, Google, OpenAI, AWS, NVIDIA, IBM, Anthropic, Fetch.ai, MistralAI, Circle, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, and many more. Not even the biggest AI projects in crypto can say they have partnerships of this level.
Surge's upcoming $1,000,000 hackathon sponsored by Google and more.
He’s been:
Featured by the NYSE
On stage with world leaders
Running the world’s largest AI Hackathons
Even visited by Bill Gates in MENA during GAIA’s expansion
This is not your typical founder. This is an enterprise-grade founder that some of the smartest people in the world trust with their money and partnerships.
These aren't one-off events.
Pawel runs 200+ hackathons per year, year-round, often multiple per month. Each have THOUSANDS of participants and multiple Tier-1 Tech sponsors (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, NVIDIA, IBM, etc) and huge prize pools of up to $1,000,000.
This gives Surge something that every other launchpad fails to have:
Unlimited high-quality dealflow.
We'll see the BEST launches that we've ever seen come from Surge, and they won't be a fluke.
Believe, MetaDAO, pump, and every other launchpad have a huge problem: not enough builders.
Surge has TOO MANY builders.
Bill Gates visiting Pawel's office for LabLab and NewNativeAI
Pawel has ALREADY Operated at the $1b Level
Pawel’s company, GAIA, was a government-backed AI accelerator in Saudi Arabia.
Key facts:
Backed by Saudi MCIT + SDAIA (fucking insane)
200+ hackathons
19k+ teams
4,000+ prototypes
Multi-HUNDRED MILLION dollar funding pool
At LEAP24, the SAUDI MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND IT publicly announced a plan to “TAKE GAIA TO $1 BILLION”
This is SOVEREIGN-LEVEL validation.
Why does this matter?
$SURGE is GAIA rebuilt on crypto rails without the government bureaucracy that slowed GAIA down.
Same network. Same founder. Same builder engine. Now powered by Web3.
GAIA didn't fail because of talent or execution.
It failed because traditional funding rails are broken.
Lablab.ai - The Biggest AI Builder Funnel in the World
A very small snipped of the hundreds of hackathons hosted by Lablab, Surge's parent company/partner ran by Pawel Czech.
Pawel’s AI ecosystem is UNMATCHED.
230,000+ developers
19,000+ teams
Thousands of prototypes built
Hundreds of AI products launched
130+ tech partners
One of, if not THE worlds largest AI Hackathons
Sponsored and trusted by every big name in AI you can think of
$SURGE has GUARANTEED dealflow built in.
Hackathon winners don't just get prize money. They now get a direct path to on-chain funding through Surge instead of dying in VC inboxes.
The Funding Problem - Why SURGE Exists
Proof traditional funding methods are BROKEN.
“Innovation outpaced finance. Capital rails haven’t evolved in 30 years.”
Founders wait 8-10 years for liquidity
Only 0.5% ever reach VC funding
Retail can move billions instantly
AI Founders can’t access that capital
Bureaucracies block innovation
This is why GAIA was put on the backburner.
Surge solves this.
Global capital instantly accessible for any AI founder anywhere in a fair, transparent on-chain system.
Retail becomes the VC, founders get speed, anyone can get exposure.
This is the Internet Capital Markets idea that Pawel has been preaching. This is the $SURGE thesis.
If you've been tapped into the market recently, you've definitely seen $GAS token, created by the legendary software developer Steve Yegge. If you read his article about his discovery of the $GAS token and how he compared it to finding Amazon in 1998 and Bitcoin in 2010, you might see some similarities here.
Steve Yegge had the SAME thesis as Pawel. The new funding rail of ICM is the future of funding.
Snippet from Pawel's pinned thread explaining why he's building $SURGE.
The Ecosystem and Token Flywheel
The Ecosystem Flywheel
Lablab hosts some of the biggest hackathons in the world, with better partnerships than any competitor can boast
AI Foundry accelerates them
Surge provides transparent, liquid capital formation
Incubation partners help scale them globally using their technology
Proof-of-execution, knowledge, and success results in the loop strengthening and repeating
Every cycle strengthens the network: more founders, more launches, more liquidity, more IP, more reputation data.
The longer SURGE operates, the faster and more efficiently it can create, fund, and scale the next generation of AI-native ventures. The Surge ecosystem is a closed-loop market for innovation-from idea discovery to global scaling. It integrates infrastructure, capital, and community into one coherent operating system, ensuring that every project launched strengthens the collective and compounds ecosystem value.
This is just the ecosystem flywheel - the token has a value accrual flywheel as well, earning revenue from launches, trading fees, and more to be announced.
Fixing the Biggest Issues of New Launches
Surge fixes what "fairlaunch" broke.
Surge Score is a reputation-weighted allocation system based on:
on-chain history
social presence
connected wallets
$SURGE staking
Bots and multi-wallet farmers get compressed. Good actors and participants of the ecosystem get rewarded.
Surge launches add:
Founder identity + optional KYC
Verified socials
Embedded whitepapers and decks
Team transparency
Hackathon + Incubation badges
Founder Buyback + on-chain lockups
The Surge Graduation Standard:
Bonding Curve > Seamless DEX migration
Founders lock tokens with public cliffs + vesting
No ghost supply. No VC dumps. No hidden bundles. No surprises.
Stealing the Entire Market - 3 Launch Tier System/Cross-Chain/Low Fees
Most launchpads force one launch format onto every project, no matter the needs or differences. This is a HUGE PROBLEM.
Surge gives options that make sense for anyone and everyone looking to launch.
Fairlaunch - day zero builders, open bonding curve
Ignition - structured public sale for scaling startups
Gated - compliance-ready, reputation-driven launches for serious teams and institutions
Surge can support hackathon teams, real startups with traction, mature businesses that want tokenized capital markets, memes, and everything in between.
On top of this, Surge is cross-chain allowing launches across Solana, Base, and BSC.
This means:
Bigger liquidity surface area
Different investor populations
Startups choose their desired home base
Surge becomes THE chain-agnostic capital rail system
Fees are low: 1%/1% buy & sell fees.
The Institutional Arm
Surge recently brought on Dr. Peter Knez as a Strategic Advisor - former CIO at BlackRock and Barclays.
Dr. Knez scaled AUM from $5B > $40B US and $80B globally.
This isn't your typical "crypto advisor".
This is institutional credibility meant to build the institutional arm of Surge internet capital markets. This is how you bridge retail liquidity with startup tokenization and compliance-ready rails for institutional level companies.
The team has already teased that more advisors and team members of this level are to come.
The AI x Crypto Thesis - Guaranteed Convergence
If you’re an active participant in web3, you know where the future is heading.
AI is the future, and fiat does not support this future.
AI agents must transact in
Permissionless money
Programmable markets
Instant settlement
Interoperable primitives
If AI is the future, crypto and web3 will be front and center.
Why $SURGE is the best bet in web3 AI Right Now
AI Season 1 brought us countless slop coins that reached unreal valuations. No real founders. No real backings. Weak products.
$SURGE introduces
Real founders
Real products
Real teams building in public
Real institutions and backings
Real capital rails
$SURGE is the first and only project positioned to be the hub of the next wave of AI.
This is THE bet.
The Tokenomics
$SURGE tokenomics via the whitepaper
Staking = access to launches
Launch Fees > Stakers
More launches = More demand
More demand = higher staking
Higher staking = lower float
Lower float = strong price reflexivity
When even ONE breakout AI startup launches through $SURGE, repricing will happen IMMEDIATELY.
When several launch and the flywheel kicks in? The sky is the limit.
This is a project with REAL $1b+ potential
Institutional investors look for:
Billion-dollar founder pedigree (Pawel has this)
Massive real-world partnerships (Lablab has the best in the world)
The LARGEST AI builder funnel in the world
Guaranteed dealflow
Real product with senseful tokenomics and strong token design
Perfect timing for AI x Web3
No true competitors that come CLOSE
Currently sitting at around $25m…
Final Thoughts Summarized - How can you fade this?
The LARGEST AI BUILDER FUNNEL IN THE WORLD.
The LARGEST AI HACKATHONS IN THE WORLD.
Backed by THE BIGGEST TECH COMPANIES IN EXISTENCE.
A founder who already operated at $1 BILLION level scale.
A launch system that ACTUALLY PROTECTS INVESTORS and rewards good actors.
Where do hundreds of thousands of real AI builders and startups go to launch and fund their project?
To $SURGE.
You thought AI season 1 was great? Imagine REAL products with REAL backings from the BIGGEST companies in the world launching through a launchpad that everyone and anyone can participate in.
If the $SURGE thesis plays out, this is a $1b+ coin. Further proof? The Saudi Minister of Communications and IT publicly announced that they'd take GAIA to $1b+...and this is GAIA improved.
Conclusion:
If you made it this far, thank you for reading my article. I encourage you to read the whitepaper for $SURGE here, as there is a lot of information I couldn't possibly include here without making it too long or hard to read:
https://whitepaper.surge.xyz/
I also highly encourage you to scroll through Pawel and Surge's twitters, as they are both INCREDIBLE and will build your conviction level to be much higher than it should already be:
https://x.com/czech_pawel
https://x.com/Surgexyz_
I'll see you at billions!
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