We’re leading the $6M seed round in TurboFlow to bring institutional-grade trading experiences for perpetual futures and prediction markets to everyday traders across Asia.

 

Over the last few years, perpetuals and prediction markets have been two of the largest growing DeFi primitives. In the last 6 months, perpetuals have seen $4 trillion USD in volume and over $15 billion in open interest, while prediction markets total trading volume has soared from less than $5 billion in September 2025 to over $24 billion in April 2026.

 

Today, these two DeFi primitives are now converging and evolving together, especially as near-term trading instruments. Prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket are not only offering short-term crypto markets (eg. BTC 15min), but also actively launching perpetual futures as a product. Similarly, Hyperliquid, the leading perpetuals platform, has recently launched HIP4 outcome markets as a way to create infrastructure for prediction markets.

 

At the same time, the user base for trading is increasingly a global phenomenon, with Asia leading the adoption curve on many of these frontier trading products. 30% of global crypto spot trading, for example, comes from South Korea with Won-denominated trades, while many of leading traditional cryptocurrency exchanges also have deep roots in the APAC region. We believe perps and prediction market platforms increasingly will need to localize and meet users where they are.

 

That’s the gap TurboFlow is built to close.

 

Enter TurboFlow

TurboFlow is an onchain trading platform that unifies perpetual futures and prediction markets in a single venue. From one account, a user can take a leveraged view on an asset’s price or a position on a real-world event – an election, a sports result, a macro print –on the same balance and through the same consumer-grade interface.

 

It’s built for speed and accessibility: entry sizes as small as $2, fast settlement tuned for short-duration contracts, and institutional-grade liquidity, pricing, and risk management running underneath a self-custodial app that hides the chain entirely. In effect, it’s like an institutional trading desk – the liquidity, the pricing, the risk engine – rebuilt as something anyone can open on their phone. TurboFlow calls the experience “high-velocity event trading”: the simplicity of a consumer app with the execution quality of a professional desk.

 

In a six-month beta, that combination has done real volume – more than 15,000 registered users and over $19B in cumulative trading volume, ahead of any public launch.

 

Meet the Team

TurboFlow’s founder Tony He is a co-founder and partner of Amber Group, one of Asia’s largest crypto trading institutions, and a market maker by background. He has spent his career on the institutional side of these exact markets, building the the liquidity, pricing, and risk systems that TurboFlow now puts in front of everyday users. He is supported by a team that has extensive experience building crypto exchanges and expertise in building frontier markets.

 

Our Thesis

We believe that the next generation of trading platforms will be won by the teams that meet users where they are – the ones closest to the assets, events, and markets a user actually wants to trade.

 

Even while APAC remains one of the most sophisticated retail trading regions in crypto, today’s incumbents such as Kalshi, Polymarket, and Hyperliquid were primarily built for Western audiences. But a trader in Seoul or Jakarta may not necessarily care about a US local election or pop culture reference.

 

TurboFlow has the unique combination of a founder that has first-hand experience building a world-class execution and liquidity engine, as well as a team that knows what users in APAC are excited about and want to see. And today, we’re already starting to see the grassroots traction and excitement for TurboFlow’s institutional-grade trading experience. 

 

With the right team, the right product, and the right market, we believe TurboFlow can become the next-generation trading platform for APAC, and we’re proud to lead their $6M seed round to build the best-in-class markets for everyone.

 

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