Well now, gather ’round, folks, for I have a tale to spin about a curious contraption known as Flying Tulip, a trading platform that’s as on-chain as a cat is on a hot tin roof. This fine invention, brought forth by none other than Andre Cronje, co-founder of Sonic Labs, is currently on a quest to raise capital faster than a rabbit on a date. 🐇💰
Summary
- Our dear friend Andre is out there rustling up funds for Flying Tulip, an on-chain trading platform that promises to be the bee’s knees.
- It boasts a staggering 1000x leverage, adaptive AMMs, and liquidity that’s backed by yield-whatever that means! 🤔
- Funds will be put to work in yield strategies; the FT token is as fixed in supply as a stubborn mule and not yet live.
In a post on the 14th of August, Mr. Cronje extended an invitation to U.S.-based funds, like a gentleman offering a seat at the table, marking the project’s first public fundraising effort. It’s like a barn dance, but with more zeros and less hay. 💃
According to the details shared by our friend Andre, Flying Tulip is built entirely on the Sonic (S) layer-1 blockchain, promising a high-performance, full-featured decentralized exchange. Its liquidity model is powered by a synthetic delta-neutral pool, which sounds fancy enough to impress the most discerning of investors. It enables features like spot and perpetual trading, lending, and options-like a Swiss Army knife for traders! 🛠️
Flying Tulip is now raising capital. If you are a USA based fund interested in investing, reach out to [email protected]
Flying Tulip is a high-performance full featured exchange, built entirely on-chain, with liquidity powered by a synthetic delta-neutral liquidity pool…
– Andre Cronje (@AndreCronjeTech) August 14, 2025
With leverage options that could make a tightrope walker dizzy-up to 1000x, mind you-and adaptive liquidity that lowers impermanent loss while boosting capital efficiency, this platform aims to perform at levels that would make even the most seasoned centralized exchanges green with envy. 🌱
Use of funds and token model
Now, Mr. Cronje has laid out a plan for the funds raised, which will go toward Flying Tulip’s yield strategies. Only the yield will be used for marketing, token liquidity, launchpad incentives, and buybacks. The project’s native token, FT, will have a fixed supply split evenly between investors and the foundation, with no inflation or incentive-based issuance-like a well-behaved child! 🎈
Holders will have a perpetual right to sell tokens back at the original investment rate in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), USD Coin (USDC), Ethena USDe (USDE), USDS, or ftUSD. The FT token has yet to make its grand debut, and the team has warned against scams using its name-like a snake oil salesman at a county fair! 🐍
Market ambition and competitive edge
Flying Tulip’s adaptive curve AMM switches between two pricing models based on market volatility, giving traders better prices and increasing returns for liquidity providers. It’s like having your cake and eating it too! 🍰
Other features include non-custodial wallets for user control, dynamic loan-to-value ratios to reduce liquidation risks, and hybrid compliance features like tax reporting and Office of Foreign Assets Control screening-because who doesn’t love a little bureaucracy with their trading? 📜
The community has responded with a great deal of optimism, comparing Flying Tulip’s ambitions to a decentralized version of GMX and Binance, minus the centralized custody risks. However, its reliance on accurate and resilient oracles for real-time pricing and volatility data will be as critical as a good pair of boots on a muddy day. 🥾
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2025-08-15 08:46