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  "approvedBiography": "Andre Cronje is the founder of Flying Tulip and Chief Technology Officer at Witnessnet. He created Yearn Finance and Keep3r Network, designed the original Solidly / ve(3,3) model, originated the technical architecture of Fantom's working network, and led the design and development of the Sonic network and Sonic Gateway during his tenure as Chief Technology Officer of Sonic Labs.",
  "currentRole": "Founder, Flying Tulip; Chief Technology Officer, Witnessnet.",
  "currentWork": "Flying Tulip is a unified onchain financial system designed around collateral, credit, settlement, risk, spot trading, lending, perpetual futures, insurance, and ftUSD.",
  "witnessnetRole": "Andre Cronje serves as Chief Technology Officer at Witnessnet. Witnessnet builds zkTLS infrastructure for blockchain-authenticated, chain-agnostic HTTP requests.",
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  "institutionalFraming": "Andre Cronje is a builder of onchain market structure, founder of Flying Tulip, and Chief Technology Officer at Witnessnet.",
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