Surgence Labs, Crypto Marketing Firm, Announces Strategic Partnership with SHIFT RWA

Surgence Labs partners with SHIFT to support the go-to-market launch of the first non-liquidatable leveraged equity token protocol on Solana.

At Surgence Labs, we don’t take on engagements lightly. Our team runs a concentrated number of partnerships at any given time, and every one of them has to meet a simple bar: is the product genuinely differentiated, is the market real, and is the team serious about building something that lasts?

SHIFT clears every one of those bars. Today, we are announcing our strategic partnership with SHIFT RWA, the home for leveraged equity tokens on Solana.

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The on-chain equities market has a problem. Plain tokenised stocks (1:1 wrappers on AAPL, TSLA, and SPY)  have existed for years. The demand was supposed to follow. It didn’t. Static equity exposure is boring to a crypto audience that expects volatility, and the volumes on every protocol offering it have proven that.

Stock perps exist, too. Hyperliquid, gTrade, Ostium, and others have built leveraged exposure to equities as perpetual contracts. The volumes are real. But the mechanism is dangerous: the exchange holds your collateral, sets the margin terms, and can liquidate your position. Scam wicks happen. Positions that should have been profitable get wiped before the actual market move plays out.

SHIFT is neither of those things.

SHIFT issues leveraged equity tokens as SPL tokens on Solana. Tesla 3x. Nvidia 3x. Semiconductors 3x. Uranium 3x. Long and short. The leverage is baked into the token itself through daily rebalancing — the same mechanism that makes ProShares TQQQ and Direxion SOXL work in TradFi, brought on-chain for the first time on Solana.

The critical difference: there is no margin. There is no collateral held by an exchange. There is no liquidation event. You buy the token, it goes into your Phantom wallet, and nobody can close your position. A 3.5% move in the semiconductor index becomes a 10-12% move on Semiconductors 3x. That is the thrill crypto traders are looking for, without the mechanism that wipes them before the trade plays out.

Solana’s RWA ecosystem reached a new all-time high of $873 million in tokenised value as of early January 2026, with distinct RWA holders increasing 18.42% in just 30 days to over 126,000 participants. The institutional infrastructure is in place. The regulatory environment is clarifying. And the appetite for on-chain equity exposure has been demonstrated by the volume numbers on every perp platform offering it.

Solana’s tokenised equity assets grew 200% over six months compared to 6.7% for Ethereum during the same period. Sub-cent fees, 400ms finality, and native DeFi composability through Jupiter, Orca, and Kamino make Solana the right infrastructure for a product like SHIFT.

What has been missing is the product that gives crypto traders the volatility they actually want. Leveraged tokens — not perps, not 1:1 wrappers — are that product. Projected institutional inflows of up to $6 billion into Solana’s RWA ecosystem are expected as regulatory clarity develops. SHIFT is positioning ahead of that wave with a product that speaks to both the DeFi native audience today and the institutional audience coming in 2026 and beyond.

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SHIFT is the only protocol that combines all four of the following properties simultaneously:

->  Leveraged token format — the leverage is inside the token, not held by an exchange as a position.

->  Solana native — SPL tokens, composable with the full Solana DeFi ecosystem from day one.

->  DeFi composable — use them as collateral, lend against them, integrate them into protocols.

->  Non-liquidatable — no margin, no collateral at risk, no liquidation event possible.

Any.fund offers leveraged ETF-style products but lives on Hyperliquid, not Solana, and lacks the DeFi composability of a native SPL token. Synthetix and Toros offer the same token structure but on crypto assets only — no stocks. Every perp platform offers stock exposure, but with the exchange-held collateral model, which makes liquidation possible. SHIFT is the only protocol in the specific intersection of all four.

As part of this strategic partnership, Surgence Labs is committed to working closely with the SHIFT team across narrative, community, distribution, and growth to drive real on-chain traction as the protocol launches and scales. We are embedding directly as an extension of the SHIFT team, bringing our full network and execution capability to the engagement as SHIFT establishes itself as the defining protocol in its category.

Surgence Labs is a full-stack Web3 go-to-market studio headquartered in Dubai. We partner with blockchain protocols, DeFi teams, and Web3 ecosystems at every stage — from pre-launch positioning through TGE and beyond. Our team of 40+ specialists has supported over 100 protocols across DeFi, RWA, gaming, infrastructure, and consumer crypto, driving over $300M in combined client revenue. We operate as an embedded growth partner, not a vendor. When we take on an engagement, we treat it as our own.

The RWA tokenisation market reached $17.88 billion in early 2025, with 76% of professional investors planning tokenised asset investments by 2026. The capital is coming on-chain. The question for every protocol in this space is whether the product is the right one to capture it.

Plain tokenised stocks are not. The volumes have proven that.

Perp-based equity exposure is not, for a growing audience that has been liquidated too many times to trust the mechanism.

Leveraged equity tokens — composable, non-liquidatable, Solana native — are the product that has been missing. SHIFT is building it, and Surgence is here to get it in front of the audience that has been waiting for it without knowing it existed.

We are excited to be a part of this.

SHIFT is the home for leveraged equity tokens on Solana. 24/7. Non-liquidatable. Tesla 3x. NVIDIA 3x. Semiconductors 3x. Uranium 3x. Long and short. SPL tokens. Jupiter RFQ. Chainlink verified. Your wallet. Your position. Nobody closes it.

Surgence Labs is a full-stack Web3 go-to-market studio headquartered in Dubai. 40+ specialists. 100+ clients. $300M+ in combined client revenue across DeFi, RWA, gaming, and infrastructure. surgence.io

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