Rootcore #5 Corsair: How We Pulled a Token Pair Out of a Liquidity Crisis

Our partners often share one common trait — almost all of them have suffered from incompetent market makers. The price keeps printing new lows every month, budgets are nearly drained, and organic demand is weak or nonexistent. Our job in such cases is a step-by-step recovery of the trading pair, pulling it out of the liquidity crisis — a process that can take months.

Today I’ll tell you about one such “partner,” though it’s really a composite story, drawn from several projects that share the same patterns and problems.

I had been leading this token from the very first listing, back when I worked as a trader at another market-making company — it was our first Atlant case from listing. In the first two months, the budget grew 5–6× from pure trading profits. Volatility was strong, and the token attracted both traders and the market’s attention. No manipulations, no pumps, dumps or spoofing — just clean, organic market-making. The price of the token grew 11× naturally.

Later, for reasons I don’t know, the project switched to another market maker. We handed it over with six-figure liquidity on the books. A year later, we reached the same project again — this time as Root — and found it with zero balances.

The project gave us a minimal budget, enough to maintain just $10 of liquidity within a 1% price range. A few months later, we had multiplied that reserve fourfold, thanks largely to a new trading algorithm that was born during this very process.

You see, when your small digital empire sends a tiny ship with tokens into the offshore, unregulated waters of the crypto market — the storm isn’t your biggest problem. Your real problem is pirates — those who take what simply “lies around.” And if the pirate happens to be your market maker, you can forget about your ship.

A week later they’ll come back saying:

“The ship sank. We fought the storm… and then a Kraken appeared.”

But in reality, the loot had already been divided long before you signed the deal.

(If you want to know how to tell it’s time to change your MM, we covered that in **Rootcore #4**.)

Now, let’s return to our case. A $10 liquidity depth within 1% means an extremely inefficient market — $100 can move the price by 10%. That creates the perfect hunting ground for manipulative bots and MM-bot hunters. But Root has been around for years. We know exactly what to do.

We grab some popcorn and enter a meditative observation of prints and the order book — for hours. This method of finding trading logic came from our days at a prop firm: open ten instruments in a scalper’s terminal and just watch. After two days of such contemplative observation, you know every bot species on that instrument by face — and could write a book about them.

And after two days of this practice, we had a bot so good that it deserved its own story. Meet the trading algorithm — Corsair.

Corsair is a pirate that pirates pirates. A bot that earns from bots trying to earn from you. Imagine: pirates are boarding your ship — and out of the fog appears our Corsair, boarding the pirates instead.

Hire our **fleet of bots to accompany your caravel expedition** through the foggy offshore waters of the crypto market. We’ll guide you through every storm.

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