- KuCoin Alpha listed the meme token Flying Tesla Roadster, ticker FTR, built on Solana, on October 18, 2026
- FTR trades against USDT on KuCoin’s Alpha Zone and carries a 0.5 percent buy tax and a 0.5 percent sell tax on every trade
- KuCoin warned of significant price volatility and reserved the right to suspend or delist the token at its own discretion, standard language for its high-risk Alpha tier
KuCoin added a new meme token called Flying Tesla Roadster, trading under the ticker FTR, to its Alpha Zone on October 18, 2026, according to the exchange’s own announcement. The token runs on the Solana blockchain, with KuCoin publishing its contract address, DFMt2FyLpB6ekPNAzVErLXgpSnJ9CRf1VnxBAkTLpump, so traders could independently verify the token before interacting with it, a standard practice exchanges use to help users avoid scam contracts that sometimes mimic legitimate new listings.
The token’s name riffs on a long-running piece of Tesla marketing lore, a reference to the idea that a future version of the company’s Roadster sports car could include rocket thrusters allowing short bursts of flight, a claim Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has floated publicly on multiple occasions without the feature ever shipping on a production vehicle. Meme tokens built around viral cultural references, celebrity statements or internet in-jokes have become a recurring category of new listings on crypto exchanges, typically carrying no claimed utility beyond the token itself and its community.
FTR trades as a pair against USDT, KuCoin’s own stablecoin trading pair, specifically within the exchange’s Alpha Zone, a listing tier the exchange uses for newer, higher-risk tokens that have not yet qualified for a full spot listing. Every trade in the token carries a 0.5 percent tax applied on both the buy side and the sell side, a mechanism some token projects use to fund ongoing development, marketing or liquidity provisioning directly out of trading activity rather than relying solely on an initial token sale.
KuCoin’s listing notice repeated the same risk language the exchange attaches to essentially all of its Alpha Zone tokens, warning users of significant price volatility and the potential for a total loss of capital, and explicitly reserving the right to suspend trading or delist the token entirely at the exchange’s own discretion with no guaranteed notice period. That standard disclaimer reflects how thinly vetted Alpha Zone listings tend to be compared with KuCoin’s main spot market, where tokens generally face a more extensive review process before being allowed to trade.
The Alpha Zone structure gives KuCoin a way to capture early trading volume and attention around freshly launched, often speculative tokens without extending the same listing standards it applies elsewhere on the platform, a model several other major exchanges have adopted in parallel as competition for early access to viral new tokens has intensified. The announcement, published on KuCoin’s official notice board, gave no indication of trading volume expectations or whether the token might later be considered for a full spot listing.
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