Andre Cronje announced his departure: not the founder of Fantom and did not lead FTM's migration and airdrop to S
According to Twitter, Andre Cronje issued a statement on his resignation from the board of directors of Sonic Labs (formerly Fantom), confirming that Sonic Labs' previous announcement was true. The announcement was made because some reports and reviews have confused the boundaries of responsibility between its technical role and all of Fantom's or Sonic Labs' business, token, migration, and operational decisions. Allegedly, Fantom and the original Fantom project existed before he joined. He began participating as a technical advisor in 2018 and was not appointed as a Fantom director until December 13, 2022.
Andre Cronje said he was not the founder of the Fantom company or the original token project, but rather the original technical architect of the Fantom operable network, then served as Fantom's director and chief technology officer at Sonic Labs. He claims that he has informally used the term co-founder to describe his basic technical role, but this statement is not accurate because it confuses company formation with technology creation. Its main responsibilities are technical work, including protocol research, architecture, engineering, developer infrastructure, and the design and development of the Sonic network, particularly the Sonic Gateway.
At the same time, he emphasized that he did not design, lead, or execute the FTM migration to S, did not design or manage the Sonic airdrop, and was not responsible for making decisions on the Sonic token economic model, token allocation, emissions, or incentive structure. It also stated that it does not support discontinuing the ERC-20 version of Ethereum FTM or shutting down the Opera network; its position is that both should continue to receive support. Once the transition is complete, it will no longer participate in Sonic Labs' business decisions. Its main focus has been on the construction of the Flying Tulip for the past 18 months and will continue to do so.
