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Very HighFlying Tulip is an upcoming protocol aiming to reinvent DeFi. The presale is attracting attention as Flying Tulip is headed by Yearn.finance’s Andre Cronje. It features a ‘Perpetual Put’, meaning ICO investors can always redeem their tokens for the amount they invested.
Flying Tulip will offer lending, trading, derivatives, a native stablecoin (ftUSD), and on-chain insurance, via AMMs and a CLOB (central order book) system.
Full token utilities are currently unknown. Speculatively:
The public presale is divided into four rounds:
All rounds have the same terms:
FT will be purchasable on Ethereum, Avalanche, Sonic, Base, BSC, and Solana.
Flying Tulip (FT) plans to raise up to $1B through its token sale (private and public phases combined). The public sale is intended to raise up to $800 million.
Token Allocation Table:
| Category | Allocation Details |
| Investor Allocation | 100% of all minted tokens are distributed to private and public investors at issuance. |
| Team/Foundation | 0% initial allocation. Team exposure is accrued only through open-market buybacks, funded by a portion of protocol revenues. |
| Total Supply | 10 billion maximum supply. |
At TGE, only investor tokens will be minted and distributed. ICO investors will be able to redeem their principal at any time via buy-back and burn to limit investment downside.
For tokens held or sold on the open market, proceeds will be reinvested in blue-chip DeFi platforms, such as Aave, to generate operating revenue. This will be used to support project development, incentives, and further FT token buybacks.
The Flying Tulip roadmap follows a “waterfall path” where each item is built only after the upstream dependencies are stable, audited, and released to the public. It starts with the initial token launch and funding, moving to developing the core trading stacks and ending with the Oracles & Applications Layer. This non-calendar-based progression suggests a long-term, sustainable vision.
| Phase | Key Milestones | Timeline / Status |
| Foundation | 1. FT Token 2. Capital Allocation Infrastructure (with Perpetual PUT Option) | Initial Development / Q4 2025 (Projected Start) |
| Permissioned Stack | 3. Lend 4. ftUSD 5. Spot 6. Futures Engine 7. Futures 8. Options | Upcoming (Dependency-driven) |
| Permissionless Stack | 9. Leveraged Spot 10. Volatility AMM 11. Dynamic Lend 12. Perpetual Futures 13. Options & Futures | Upcoming (Dependency-driven) |
| Applications Layer | 14. Witnessnet 15. Launchpad 16. Binary Prediction Market 17. Insurance | Future (Long-term) |
Flying Tulip’s CEO is Andre Cronje, a famous DeFi architect and founder/developer of Yearn.finance and Sonic (formerly Fantom).
The project intends to conduct regular audits throughout the building process.
While all ICOs and Web3 projects carry risk, Andre Cronje’s long-standing reputation in the crypto community, and Flying Tulip has backing from the well-known investors (e.g., Brevan Howard, DWF Labs, Hypersphere, Lemniscap, Nascent, Republic Digital). Based on this, the project is very likely legitimate.
Andre Cronje - CEO
Approx 15 undoxxed team members and hiring
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