Founder Journey and zkCross Network History

SurfLiquid is built on more than a decade of experience designing execution systems for real capital.

SurfLiquid was founded by Shivam Tandon, founder and CEO of zkCross Network, who has been active in crypto since 2016. His work started with building automated trading and portfolio execution systems long before “AI agents” became a trend. Those early systems processed $145M+ in live trading volume and shaped a core principle that still drives SurfLiquid today:

Automation without control scales mistakes faster than humans.

That insight led to the creation of zkCross Network, a cross-chain execution and settlement infrastructure built to move value safely across blockchains while preserving user custody and security guarantees.

Over the past 3 years, zkCross Network has:

• Built production-grade cross-chain routing and execution rails

• Worked directly with major blockchains and DeFi ecosystems

• Processed $140M+ in on-chain volume across 236K+ executions

• Secured $800K+ in ecosystem grants (including Stellar, Arbitrum, Internet Computer, and Partisia)

• Completed multiple security audits and production reviews

• Developed MPC (Multi-Party Computation) and zero-knowledge-based signing and control systems

This work was not consumer-facing. It was infrastructure.

SurfLiquid is the first product built on top of that foundation, bringing zkCross Network’s execution, security, and control stack directly to users. The result is a system designed to automate on-chain yield while keeping funds non-custodial, rules enforced, and outcomes transparent.