Surplus intelligence (SURPLUS): What It Is, Uses and Risks

Surplus intelligence is a token with the ticker SURPLUS. The project behind it describes itself as a free market for AI inference on Base, the Ethereum layer 2 network. Inference is the step where a trained AI model produces an output for a request, such as answering a prompt or running a task. The project's pitch is that inference will become a routine cost for software, with agents, coding tools and automated workflows calling models constantly. In that framing, Surplus aims to let people who have spare computing capacity sell it, and to let buyers purchase inference at market-set prices. The project compares this to commodity exchanges for oil and stock exchanges for equities. Beyond that description, the public information available for this page do not include a detailed technical specification, so the mechanics of the market are not confirmed here.

The project's description says the market turns unused capacity into revenue and turns inference into a market-priced resource. The data does not state exactly how the SURPLUS token is used inside that market, such as whether it pays for inference, rewards providers, grants governance rights or serves another role. Readers should not assume a specific function from the name or the marketing language. The token is listed under AI tokens in our categories, and on CoinGecko-style category lists it appears under Artificial Intelligence, Base Ecosystem and Bankr Ecosystem. Those labels describe where the token is grouped, not what it does. To confirm the token's role, check the project's own documentation and any published smart contract details, and compare what is said there with what the token is actually used for in practice.

At the time of writing, as of 2026-11-05, the data shows a price of about $0.00017239 and a market capitalization of about $17.2M, ranking around 926th among tracked tokens. The 24-hour trading volume was about $779,761, and the price was down about 3.4% over seven days. The recorded all-time high was about $0.0002297 on 2026-10-20, and the all-time low was about $0.00001948 on 2026-06-10. The data lists circulating, total and maximum supply all at 100 billion tokens, which means no tokens are shown as locked or yet to be released. The one-year price change is not available in the data. The launch date is also not given. These figures change constantly, and they are reported here only as a snapshot, not as a basis for any decision.

The data lists no native token for any chain and places SURPLUS as issued on Base. A token issued on Base is an ERC-20 style asset that lives on that network and relies on Base's transaction processing and security. Because the token is not native to a chain, its value and functionality depend on the Base network, the smart contract that issued it, and any bridges or wrapped versions that might exist elsewhere. Anyone holding the token should confirm the official contract address on Base through the project's own channels, since scam tokens often copy names and symbols. The data does not list other chains where the token is available. Any new deployment on another network should be verified independently before it is treated as the same asset.

Several risks apply. The token's market is small compared with major assets, and the data shows a 24-hour volume near $780,000, so large trades can move the price sharply. Prices have ranged widely in the recorded period between the low and high points, and the project is described in terms of a future market that may not develop as described. The data does not show the team, audits, governance structure or token distribution, so those points are unverified. Smart contract risk, impersonation tokens and wallet phishing are common in this area. Store any holdings in a wallet you control, never share a seed phrase, and check contract addresses against the project's official sources before connecting a wallet to any site. Nothing on this page is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell.