Get Ready! Amped TGE

Dan Enright

04 Jul 2025 — 2 min read

Amped TGE on Atlantis Protocol

After months of building, shipping, and growing with the community, we are officially launching our native token: $AMPED. Get ready for the Token Generation Event on Atlantis Protocol, kicking off July, 2025.

This marks a major milestone for the protocol and the Sonic ecosystem, which has powered more than 80% of Amped’s $340 million USD in trade volume to date.

Built Different: Bootstrapped, Multichain, and Community-Led

Amped was founded in 2024 with no major VC backing, just Dan and the early community bootstrapping trade volume, fee and TVL on Amped from scratch; launching across Base, LightLink, Berachain, and more.

How many community-led pre-TGE projects can say this? Not many, if any.

Over $340 million in trading volume
More than 16,000 unique wallets
And $800,000+ in protocol fees

Most of that growth came from the Sonic Chads, and it’s no coincidence that Sonic is also the stage for the upcoming launch. Huge thanks to our early supporters: especially teams like Pyth, Sonic Labs, LightLink, and LayerZero who’ve helped Amped get to this point.

How the TGE Works

Farming Overflow model, Powered by Atlantis Protocol

Amped’s token launch will use Atlantis Protocol’s overflow farming model - a fair and transparent system designed for real users, not whales or bots. There are two main ways to participate:

Deposit $S tokens (Sonic’s native asset) into an overflow pool to secure $AMPED allocations
Stake $xAQUA, the native token of Atlantis, to earn additional vested $AMPED

This launch coincides with the highly anticipated Sonic Season One $S airdrop, expected to introduce over $20 million USD in fresh liquidity across the ecosystem. So it’s a perfect time to get involved.

$AMPED will launch at a $4 million FDV, offering one of the most accessible entry points in the market. Compared this to major DeFi protocols like Morpho and Aave, which trade up to 10x their mature annualised revenues.

The First IDO on Atlantis

Amped is the first project to launch on Atlantis Protocol, following Atlantis’s $1.4 million public raise earlier this year. This first-mover slot reflects the shared values between Amped and Atlantis: open access, ecosystem-first growth, and DeFi innovation.

Together, we’re bringing new momentum to the Sonic DeFi stack.

From Frustration to Innovation

“Amped is a project I started alone, out of frustration with how hard it was to use so many existing DeFi tools. Today, the team is gropwing and we’re focused on integrating AI agents, building next-gen automated finance infrastructure, and giving users an experience they actually enjoy. As stablecoins reshape the global economy, DeFi’s moment is coming - and we want Amped to be front and center when it does.”

— Dan Enright, Founder

What's Next

With the TGE funding in place, Amped is gearing up to assemble a full-time team and begin work on Amped V2, set for release in early 2026. Amped V2 will be transformative. People are ready to be their own banks - to take full control of their onchain finances.