# SurgeProtocol - Reshaping DeFi

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**Surge Protocol is the first truly decentralized DEX, enabling each token to store its liquidity inside its own smart contract.**

The native token $SRG is the liquidity pair of every token on SurgeSwap ("SRG20 tokens").

With increasing demand for SRG20 tokens, the demand for $SRG increases at the same time.

An increasing price of $SRG automatically increases the prices of all SRG20 tokens.

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**Nobody can extract the liquidity from the smart contract - No rugpull is possible**

[**Read more about the liquidity here!**](https://docs.surgeprotocol.io/surge-protocol-usdsrg/liquidity)
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### <mark style="color:yellow;">**Project owners can launch their token on SurgeSwap without any initial liquidity funding**</mark>

* Manually set the starting marketcap of your token
* Pay gas fees to deploy the contract
* Enable trading - Your project is now live!

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[**Read more about launching with Surge here!**](https://docs.surgeprotocol.io/development/why-develop-on-surge)
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Surge has a built-in protection against MEV bots. This allows traders to use higher slippage without running the risk of falling victim to MEV-sandwich-attacks.

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## Surge Protocol has ZERO trading fees and ZERO taxes!

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