Surf

Surf is an AI command hub for crypto, offering a unified market intelligence platform designed for AI agents. Its core business is aggregating data from 40+ blockchains and 200+ data sources into a single API, covering crypto and US equities. Users can query via natural language or use the Surf Skill CLI, which integrates with coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor, enabling agents to fetch live prices, on-chain flows, DeFi TVL, and social sentiment directly.

Its main differentiator is breaking data silos. Instead of juggling dozens of API keys, one tool unifies exchange, on-chain, and social data. It also models sentiment from 120,000 social sources and tracks cross-chain DeFi metrics in real time, turning raw data into actionable answers rather than just JSON output.

The pain point it addresses is information fragmentation in crypto research. Analysts and developers often switch between multiple dashboards and tools to piece together a full picture. Surf simplifies this by providing one access point, reducing the complexity of building trading or research agents.

In the past six months (March to September 2026), Surf expanded its public endpoints to 120 across 17 domains, including 9 US equity endpoints. It launched the Surf Skill CLI as a new delivery method, making data accessible directly inside AI coding environments. The team also emphasized localization efforts, particularly for the Korean market, focusing on product experience rather than simple translation. They acknowledged that AI research tools still face accuracy risks and that the new product category is hard to describe, so they are investing in clearer narratives and user-driven content. No major negative events were reported, though the challenge of communicating a novel product type remains an ongoing issue.