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#1: a token whose name is rented ad space @rentmytoken
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everyone asks for the ticker. nobody has ever charged for it.
think about how weird that is.
every token launch starts the same way.
“what’s the ticker?”
“wen ticker?”
“what’s the CA?”
“drop the ticker.”
before people look at the website, before they understand the tokenomics, before they know anything about the project, they want the ticker.
it might be the most requested piece of information in crypto.
and once you have it, you see it everywhere.
your wallet. the DEX. the chart. the screener. the explorer. the terminal. the leaderboard. the group chat. the screenshot someone posts on X.
the ticker follows the token everywhere it goes.
it’s a string that can end up being displayed millions or billions of times.
and the cost of owning that attention?
zero.
you choose a ticker when you deploy.
that’s basically it.
meanwhile, everyone surrounding that ticker has figured out how to monetize the attention.
the chain gets paid when people trade.
the DEX gets paid.
the launchpad gets paid.
the trading bot gets paid.
the KOL gets paid.
the affiliate gets paid.
the market maker gets paid.
the person who owns the most visible, most repeated, most searched-for string in the entire system gets nothing for the name itself.
I think that’s backwards.
and the interesting part is that the market has already been trying to fix this on its own.
look at popular names.
there are 23 tokens called HOOD.
15 called STOCK.
12 called ROBINHOOD.
why?
because people know names have value.
they are already willing to spend real money deploying contracts just to squat on a ticker they think someone else will want.
that means a market for names already exists.
it’s just an incredibly inefficient one.
today, if you want a ticker someone else has, you don’t buy it from them.
you deploy another contract with the exact same ticker.
now there are two.
then five.
then twenty-three.
nobody knows which one is real.
the original holder captures none of the demand.
and the “price discovery” happens through gas spent creating counterfeit versions of the same string.
so I started thinking:
what happens if the ticker itself actually has a price?
not the token.
the name.
what if you could rent a ticker, and anyone who wants it more than you can take it by paying more?
that’s what we built with @rentmytoken.
the mechanism is intentionally simple.
someone rents a ticker.
if you want it, you pay 1.5x the current rental price.
part of that payment goes to the previous renter.
then you hold the ticker until someone values it 1.5x more than you do.
�� 0.01 ETH
→ 0.015 ETH
→ 0.0225 ETH
→ 0.0338 ETH
→ 0.0506 ETH
→ 0.0759 ETH
six people can turn a string that previously had no price into an open market with observable price discovery.
and I think the distinction here matters.
most attempts to monetize attention create a new surface and then try to convince people to look at it.
a billboard needs traffic.
a website needs visitors.
an ad needs impressions.
a ticker already has the traffic.
people literally ask you for it.
you don’t need to manufacture the attention.
you need to price the thing the attention is already attached to.
crypto has spent years financializing almost everything.
tokens. blockspace. compute. storage. bandwidth. social graphs. memes. attention itself.
but one of the most obvious pieces of crypto-native digital real estate has remained free:
the ticker.
there’s another reason I think the timing makes sense.
attention itself is becoming an asset class.
projects are experimenting with websites, usernames, placements and other pieces of internet real estate as things that can be owned, traded and repriced.
but tickers are different.
they’re native to the market.
you don’t have to send a trader somewhere new to see one.
the ticker is already sitting next to the price.
it’s already in the wallet.
already on the chart.
already in the trade confirmation.
already in every screenshot.
already in the conversation.
and unlike buying a token because you think someone will buy it from you later, renting a ticker has an extremely legible reason to exist.
maybe you’re launching.
maybe you’re running a campaign.
maybe you’re a community.
maybe you’re a protocol.
maybe you just believe a certain four-letter string is going to become culturally important.
you put a price on that belief.
someone else can disagree.
and if they value the name more, they take it from you.
that’s a market.
I don’t know how large the market for tickers becomes.
that’s what makes this worth building.
because until now, there hasn’t really been a market at all.
there has only been squatting.
the demand was hidden inside thousands of duplicate contracts, gas payments, launch threads and replies asking the same question over and over again:
“what’s the ticker?”
I built https://t.co/CmjwxIiYLT because I think the answer to that question should finally have a price.
@arc looks like a lot of fun
@AnarchyAlchemis There is no curve/graduation in this case with a v4 uniswap hook.
on sol, its about how much of the curve is being bought, i.e token/stock pair created. when someone buys token - atomically sol is swapped into the stock. which means a certain sol reserve is the grad number
I keep coming back to the same thought:
we might have finally found an actual use case for tokenized stocks that is way more interesting than "trade NVDA at 2am."
The first version of tokenized equities was basically Robinhood with extra steps.
Take a stock. Wrap it. Put it onchain. Let crypto people trade it 24/7.
Cool, I guess.
But then people in the trenches started doing what they always do: taking serious financial infrastructure and doing stupid shit with it.
$BONER / $HIMS.
$AI / $NVDA.
$MOO / $MU.
solana:GKjAe1bQXXLoEitJYSuyw6qt97tTVoKkGEgWPEo6pump / $MSFT.
$SPACEHOOD / $SPCX.
And I think the stupid shit is actually pointing at the bigger product.
The pair itself.
https://t.co/QXlehlB4BS just opened Custom Pairs, which means the quote asset doesn't have to be SOL or USDC anymore. You can launch against tokenized stocks, majors, metals, whatever is supported. They launched with 93 possible quote assets.
That sounds like a feature.
I think it's the start of a completely different market structure.
Because everyone on CT already intuitively understands what memecoins are.
They're attention markets with a ticker.
That's it.
There is no DCF on PEPE. Nobody is modeling discounted cash flows on a fucking frog.
You are trading mindshare.
You are trading whether the timeline cares more tomorrow than it does today.
You are trading whether a ticker gets bid, whether the community keeps posting, whether a new meta forms around it, whether some whale decides to ape, whether the trenches rotate into it, whether it gets enough attention to escape the trenches and become something normies recognize.
Memes are probably the cleanest financialization of attention we've ever built.
The funny thing is that, until now, all of that attention mostly terminated in itself.
PEPE/USDC.
BONK/SOL.
WIF/SOL.
The meme gets attention, attention creates flow, flow creates price, price creates more attention.
Closed loop.
Now put a stock on the other side.
$AI / $NVDA.
All of a sudden NVDA isn't just something the meme references in the lore.
NVDA is the quote asset.
That is a very different thing.
When people trade the meme, they are literally moving between the meme and tokenized Nvidia.
When LPs provide liquidity, part of that LP inventory is Nvidia.
When the community talks about what moves the pair, Nvidia matters.
NVDA earnings matter.
Jensen matters.
Blackwell matters.
AI capex matters.
GPU demand matters.
The entire Nvidia news cycle becomes content for the meme.
And the meme becomes another distribution surface for Nvidia.
That's the part I think people are underpricing.
Look at $BONER/$HIMS.
At one point the BONER pool held 31,198 of the roughly 58,714 tokenized HIMS shares then outstanding on Robinhood Chain. More than half the available onchain float was sitting inside a memecoin market. During the weekend, that tiny tokenized float got squeezed massively above the NYSE close before eventually converging back. The actual NYSE-listed HIMS stock did not get squeezed with it, which matters. This was an onchain float event, not some magic way to move a public company through a shitcoin.
But look at what BONER did anyway.
Suddenly the trenches were talking about HIMS.
People who had never given a shit about the company were looking at the ticker.
People were learning how much tokenized HIMS was actually onchain.
They were talking about float.
They were talking about HIMS shorts.
They were watching what happened when TradFi opened.
The stock got dragged into the meme attention machine.
That is interesting as fuck.
Because distribution is one of the hardest problems in finance.
There are thousands of publicly traded companies nobody gives a shit about.
There are ETFs with perfectly reasonable construction nobody talks about.
There are tokenized RWAs with "utility" and zero mindshare.
Meanwhile someone can launch a frog at 3am and get 50,000 people staring at the same Dexscreener candle by breakfast.
Crypto is insanely good at distribution.
Arguably better than it is at almost anything else.
So maybe the point isn't that memecoins somehow make stocks fundamentally more valuable.
The point is that memes can route attention into them.
A stock-paired meme gives the underlying ticker another place to live.
Another community.
Another chart.
Another LP.
Another reason for people to hold the tokenized version.
Another stream of posts every time something happens to the company.
Another group of financially interested people whose bags are literally tied to the narrative.
If attention is upstream of flow, that starts getting pretty reflexive.
And now take the idea one step further.
Why the fuck are we pairing memes with only one stock?
Seriously.
Why does the denominator have to be NVDA?
Why can't the denominator be a portfolio?
Imagine:
PEPE / FUTURE
where FUTURE is:
NVDA
SpaceX
QQQ
Now you've created something totally different.
PEPE isn't trading against one company anymore.
It's trading against a worldview.
If PEPE rips 60% and the FUTURE basket does 15%, PEPE is outperforming the future.
If PEPE chops sideways while NVDA, SpaceX and QQQ all send, PEPE/FUTURE gets nuked.
That's the actual market.
Long PEPE / short FUTURE.
Or long FUTURE / short PEPE.
One ticker versus an entire narrative basket.
TradFi has spent decades building this exact mental model through benchmarks.
Every PM is measured against something.
SPY.
QQQ.
A sector index.
A factor.
A benchmark.
But those benchmarks are mostly created top-down.
Committee decides methodology.
Index provider picks constituents.
ETF issuer wraps it.
Broker distributes it.
Then maybe somebody cares.
Onchain you can compress that entire stack.
Pick a worldview.
Put assets behind it.
Make it redeemable.
Seed an LP.
Now there's a ticker.
And then somebody puts a fucking frog against it.
This is where I think it starts getting really interesting.
Because the best baskets probably aren't going to look like traditional ETFs.
TradFi loves categorizing companies by what industry they're technically in.
Crypto people think in metas.
That's a huge difference.
Imagine I'm bullish AI.
I don't actually want an "AI software index."
My view might be:
AI demand keeps going parabolic.
That means more compute.
More compute needs more memory.
More data centers need more power.
So my basket is something like:
NVDA + MU + CEG
Nvidia for compute.
Micron for memory.
Constellation for power.
Three completely different companies if you're looking at a sector screen.
One trade if you're looking at the actual bottlenecks behind the AI capex cycle.
Call the basket MACHINE.
Now trade:
PEPE / MACHINE
This is the kind of shit I want to see.
Because MACHINE now has multiple independent attention engines.
Jensen says something insane at GTC? MACHINE gets mindshare.
HBM pricing goes vertical? MU is the narrative.
Hyperscalers start signing insane power deals? CEG is the narrative.
Data center power demand becomes a political issue? Same basket.
AI capex estimates get revised up? Same basket.
Memory shortage? Same basket.
Nuclear renaissance? Same basket.
And separately, PEPE has its own giant attention graph operating 24/7.
You're connecting two totally different attention markets through one pair.
That's much more powerful than $AI/$NVDA.
A single-stock pair has one main real-world narrative surface.
A basket can have a bunch.
You could make the basket even weirder.
Maybe your thesis isn't AI.
Maybe it's:
the world gets hotter, grids get tighter, compute demand explodes and electricity becomes the bottleneck.
Fine.
Build that.
Semis + uranium + grid infra + cooling + some climate name.
Maybe someone thinks the next decade is basically:
AI agents + GLP-1s + private space + nuclear.
That basket would make zero sense to an ETF committee.
It makes perfect sense as somebody's actual worldview.
Put it onchain.
Give it a ticker.
Let the market decide whether the thesis has legs.
This is basically permissionless thematic indexing, except the interesting part is what happens after the index exists.
You can pair shit against it.
That's the unlock.
The basket doesn't need to be the final product.
The basket can become money inside another market.
It can become the quote asset.
LP inventory.
Collateral.
Treasury inventory.
The denominator for another ticker.
Then the graph starts getting wild.
You could have:
PEPE / MACHINE
DOGE / SPACE
BONK / NUCLEAR
AI / COMPUTE
some completely new meme / LONGEVITY
and then maybe another token launches paired against PEPE.
Then another token uses MACHINE as collateral.
Then some vault farms fees across all of them.
Then an arb bot is constantly routing between the underlying basket, the basket token, USDC and five meme pairs.
At that point you're not really talking about "tokenized stocks" anymore.
You're talking about ICM in the literal sense.
Internet Capital Markets.
Assets become composable.
Anything can be the numerator.
Anything can be the denominator.
The market graph gets denser.
And attention starts routing through that graph.
That's the part I think is potentially huge.
Crypto spent years obsessing over what new asset we could launch.
We barely fucked with what we price the asset in.
Every new shitcoin, same denominator.
SOL.
ETH.
USDC.
USDT.
Change the denominator and the market starts expressing completely different views.
PEPE/USD tells me whether PEPE is worth more dollars.
PEPE/NVDA tells me whether PEPE is outperforming Nvidia.
PEPE/MACHINE tells me whether PEPE is outperforming an entire thesis about AI infrastructure.
Those are different trades.
Different holders.
Different catalysts.
Different reasons to care.
And the denominator itself now has distribution.
This is where the attention argument gets really bullish for tokenized equities.
Say you own some boring tokenized basket.
Nobody cares.
Maybe it does $2m of volume and CT never mentions it.
Now somebody pairs a cult meme against it and that meme catches a bid.
Suddenly every degen holding the meme needs to understand what the hell is on the other side of the pair.
People start posting the basket.
People start posting the components.
People start tracking which component is carrying.
Someone makes a dashboard.
Someone starts posting NAV dislocations.
Someone starts arbing it.
Someone launches a second meme against the same basket.
Now the basket has a meta.
That sounds insane if you come from TradFi.
On CT it is basically how markets already work.
Mindshare is liquidity's annoying little brother. It follows you everywhere.
The trenches rotate from ticker to ticker because attention rotates. The winning ticker captures the timeline, captures flow, captures liquidity, attracts more builders, attracts more pairs and then sometimes becomes a base asset for the next thing.
We've already seen versions of that behavior inside crypto.
What tokenized stocks do is let real-world assets plug into that attention graph.
And I think people are sleeping on how valuable that distribution can be.
https://t.co/QXlehlB4BS turning on Custom Pairs matters because Pump doesn't need to teach the internet how to launch or trade shitcoins. That PMF already exists.
It is swapping out the quote asset underneath the exact same behavior.
That is a ridiculously simple change.
The bonding curve can feel the same.
The ape button can feel the same.
The trenches can behave exactly as badly as they always have.
Except now the other side might be NVDA instead of SOL. Creator fees on those launches are even collected in the paired asset.
The rails are getting there too.
"Internet Capital Markets" has already become a real Solana narrative around issuance, trading and settlement moving onto public chains, and tokenized equities are becoming a meaningful part of that market. Nasdaq putting $100 million into Kraken's parent this month to deepen their tokenization work should tell you this isn't some side quest nobody serious is watching.
But CT probably isn't going to onboard to tokenized equities because somebody publishes another PDF explaining instant settlement.
It'll onboard because there is a ticker to trade.
That's crypto's distribution advantage.
TradFi packages capital.
Crypto packages attention.
Put the two together and you get something that starts looking very different from an ETF.
You get an index with a community.
A basket with lore.
A benchmark people actually shitpost.
A quote asset with a cult on the other side of it.
And because all of this is onchain, every unit of attention can potentially turn into observable flow.
Obviously there are ways this goes wrong.
Thin tokenized floats can get completely dislocated from the underlying. Basket design can be dogshit. Liquidity can fragment. Some "stock tokens" aren't economically equivalent to holding the actual stock. Regulation gets ugly very quickly when you're wrapping securities, indexing them and then permissionlessly building shitcoin markets on top.
Fine.
The trenches are not famous for waiting until the lawyers have finished the deck.
What I care about is that the primitive exists.
And the early demand is already there.
Bitquery counted $5.97B of volume across 148,782 stock-paired coins in the 31 days through September 10 across the launchpads it tracked. Most of those coins are obviously going to zero. That's almost beside the point. People are already hammering the primitive hard enough for billions of dollars of experimental flow to show up.
To me the progression looks pretty obvious from here.
First it was:
one meme / one stock
BONER/HIMS.
AI/NVDA.
Then:
one meme / one basket
PEPE/MACHINE.
Then:
one meme / one worldview
AI.
Space.
Power.
Longevity.
Robotics.
Defense.
Whatever the current meta is.
And eventually I think the terminology flips.
People won't say "this meme is paired with a tokenized stock."
They'll just ask:
what's the quote?
Because once every asset is programmable, the denominator is part of the product.
Maybe even the most important part.
A good meme captures mindshare.
A good basket captures a thesis.
Put them in the same market and you've got culture trading directly against a worldview.
That's a much more interesting end state than putting the Nasdaq onchain so people can buy it on Sunday.
And imo that is where the actual alpha in this meta is.
Everyone is staring at the new tickers.
I'm staring at what they're paired against.
bring back the old socialfi days
@case_0x @damian_et POL + hooks is only the first step.
The real 0→1 is turning liquidity itself into a composable reserve asset that other markets can be issued against.
@sanjayjha374 The major wallets pick it up since they read directly from the chain. The name changes directly on chain- it reflects on the explorer instantly
everyone learned to price attention. crypto still gives some of its best inventory away.
google made $294.7 billion from advertising in FY2025.
meta made $196.2 billion. 97.6% of its revenue came from ads.
together, they made $490.9 billion in one year.
alphabet and meta are worth roughly $5.7 trillion today.
underneath them is the same business model at smaller scales. the creator economy is roughly $250 billion. clippers are now paid $3–15 CPM for verified views.
the numbers change depending on the platform. the trade doesn’t.
attention has a price.
if people look at something, somebody eventually works out how to charge for access to that attention.
crypto produces a ridiculous amount of attention, but there’s one piece of inventory we’ve treated as free since the beginning: the token name.
we looked at one week of activity on our chain.
240,278 tokens were created.
56,654 had readable names.
only 24,695 names were distinct.
70.7% collided with another name.
people are already competing for the same words.
they just aren’t competing on price.
if somebody wants a ticker that already exists, there’s nothing stopping them from deploying another token with the same one. so they pay gas, create another contract and add one more copy to the pile.
that’s how the market works today.
the demand is visible. the price isn’t.
and a ticker gets a lot of distribution.
it sits in the wallet next to your balance, on the chart while you trade, on the DEX, on the explorer, in trading terminals and in screenshots posted across X and Telegram.
people even ask for it directly:
“what’s the ticker?”
advertisers normally have to fight for a fraction of that kind of attention.
the ticker gets it automatically.
we built RentMyToken around the idea that this inventory should be able to find a price.
a ticker starts at 0.01 ETH.
if someone wants it more, they rent it for 1.5x the current price.
the previous renter gets paid and the new renter takes the name.
then the market does it again.
0.01 ETH becomes 0.015.
0.015 becomes 0.0225.
0.0225 becomes 0.03375.
there’s no negotiation over what the name should be worth. somebody either pays the next price or they don’t.
that’s the part we care about most.
google can price attention because google owns the page.
meta can price attention because meta owns the feed.
a ticker doesn’t need an ad account, a media buyer or a platform employee deciding who gets access.
it needs a wallet.
the internet already proved that attention is valuable.
crypto already proved that people compete for names.
RentMyToken connects the two.
@BittexXBT aren't cpi numbers due today
everyone asks for the ticker. nobody has ever charged for it.
think about how weird that is.
every token launch starts the same way.
“what’s the ticker?”
“wen ticker?”
“what’s the CA?”
“drop the ticker.”
before people look at the website, before they understand the tokenomics, before they know anything about the project, they want the ticker.
it might be the most requested piece of information in crypto.
and once you have it, you see it everywhere.
your wallet. the DEX. the chart. the screener. the explorer. the terminal. the leaderboard. the group chat. the screenshot someone posts on X.
the ticker follows the token everywhere it goes.
it’s a string that can end up being displayed millions or billions of times.
and the cost of owning that attention?
zero.
you choose a ticker when you deploy.
that’s basically it.
meanwhile, everyone surrounding that ticker has figured out how to monetize the attention.
the chain gets paid when people trade.
the DEX gets paid.
the launchpad gets paid.
the trading bot gets paid.
the KOL gets paid.
the affiliate gets paid.
the market maker gets paid.
the person who owns the most visible, most repeated, most searched-for string in the entire system gets nothing for the name itself.
I think that’s backwards.
and the interesting part is that the market has already been trying to fix this on its own.
look at popular names.
there are 23 tokens called HOOD.
15 called STOCK.
12 called ROBINHOOD.
why?
because people know names have value.
they are already willing to spend real money deploying contracts just to squat on a ticker they think someone else will want.
that means a market for names already exists.
it’s just an incredibly inefficient one.
today, if you want a ticker someone else has, you don’t buy it from them.
you deploy another contract with the exact same ticker.
now there are two.
then five.
then twenty-three.
nobody knows which one is real.
the original holder captures none of the demand.
and the “price discovery” happens through gas spent creating counterfeit versions of the same string.
so I started thinking:
what happens if the ticker itself actually has a price?
not the token.
the name.
what if you could rent a ticker, and anyone who wants it more than you can take it by paying more?
that’s what we built with @rentmytoken.
the mechanism is intentionally simple.
someone rents a ticker.
if you want it, you pay 1.5x the current rental price.
part of that payment goes to the previous renter.
then you hold the ticker until someone values it 1.5x more than you do.
→ 0.01 ETH
→ 0.015 ETH
→ 0.0225 ETH
→ 0.0338 ETH
→ 0.0506 ETH
→ 0.0759 ETH
six people can turn a string that previously had no price into an open market with observable price discovery.
and I think the distinction here matters.
most attempts to monetize attention create a new surface and then try to convince people to look at it.
a billboard needs traffic.
a website needs visitors.
an ad needs impressions.
a ticker already has the traffic.
people literally ask you for it.
you don’t need to manufacture the attention.
you need to price the thing the attention is already attached to.
crypto has spent years financializing almost everything.
tokens. blockspace. compute. storage. bandwidth. social graphs. memes. attention itself.
but one of the most obvious pieces of crypto-native digital real estate has remained free:
the ticker.
there’s another reason I think the timing makes sense.
attention itself is becoming an asset class.
projects are experimenting with websites, usernames, placements and other pieces of internet real estate as things that can be owned, traded and repriced.
but tickers are different.
they’re native to the market.
you don’t have to send a trader somewhere new to see one.
the ticker is already sitting next to the price.
it’s already in the wallet.
already on the chart.
already in the trade confirmation.
already in every screenshot.
already in the conversation.
and unlike buying a token because you think someone will buy it from you later, renting a ticker has an extremely legible reason to exist.
maybe you’re launching.
maybe you’re running a campaign.
maybe you’re a community.
maybe you’re a protocol.
maybe you just believe a certain four-letter string is going to become culturally important.
you put a price on that belief.
someone else can disagree.
and if they value the name more, they take it from you.
that’s a market.
I don’t know how large the market for tickers becomes.
that’s what makes this worth building.
because until now, there hasn’t really been a market at all.
there has only been squatting.
the demand was hidden inside thousands of duplicate contracts, gas payments, launch threads and replies asking the same question over and over again:
“what’s the ticker?”
I built https://t.co/CmjwxIiYLT because I think the answer to that question should finally have a price.
@AnarchyAlchemis hence ticker being the most prime real estate.
everyone asks for the ticker. nobody has ever charged for it.
think about how weird that is.
every token launch starts the same way.
“what’s the ticker?”
“wen ticker?”
“what’s the CA?”
“drop the ticker.”
before people look at the website, before they understand the tokenomics, before they know anything about the project, they want the ticker.
it might be the most requested piece of information in crypto.
and once you have it, you see it everywhere.
your wallet. the DEX. the chart. the screener. the explorer. the terminal. the leaderboard. the group chat. the screenshot someone posts on X.
the ticker follows the token everywhere it goes.
it’s a string that can end up being displayed millions or billions of times.
and the cost of owning that attention?
zero.
you choose a ticker when you deploy.
that’s basically it.
meanwhile, everyone surrounding that ticker has figured out how to monetize the attention.
the chain gets paid when people trade.
the DEX gets paid.
the launchpad gets paid.
the trading bot gets paid.
the KOL gets paid.
the affiliate gets paid.
the market maker gets paid.
the person who owns the most visible, most repeated, most searched-for string in the entire system gets nothing for the name itself.
I think that’s backwards.
and the interesting part is that the market has already been trying to fix this on its own.
look at popular names.
there are 23 tokens called HOOD.
15 called STOCK.
12 called ROBINHOOD.
why?
because people know names have value.
they are already willing to spend real money deploying contracts just to squat on a ticker they think someone else will want.
that means a market for names already exists.
it’s just an incredibly inefficient one.
today, if you want a ticker someone else has, you don’t buy it from them.
you deploy another contract with the exact same ticker.
now there are two.
then five.
then twenty-three.
nobody knows which one is real.
the original holder captures none of the demand.
and the “price discovery” happens through gas spent creating counterfeit versions of the same string.
so I started thinking:
what happens if the ticker itself actually has a price?
not the token.
the name.
what if you could rent a ticker, and anyone who wants it more than you can take it by paying more?
that’s what we built with @rentmytoken.
the mechanism is intentionally simple.
someone rents a ticker.
if you want it, you pay 1.5x the current rental price.
part of that payment goes to the previous renter.
then you hold the ticker until someone values it 1.5x more than you do.
→ 0.01 ETH
→ 0.015 ETH
→ 0.0225 ETH
→ 0.0338 ETH
→ 0.0506 ETH
→ 0.0759 ETH
six people can turn a string that previously had no price into an open market with observable price discovery.
and I think the distinction here matters.
most attempts to monetize attention create a new surface and then try to convince people to look at it.
a billboard needs traffic.
a website needs visitors.
an ad needs impressions.
a ticker already has the traffic.
people literally ask you for it.
you don’t need to manufacture the attention.
you need to price the thing the attention is already attached to.
crypto has spent years financializing almost everything.
tokens. blockspace. compute. storage. bandwidth. social graphs. memes. attention itself.
but one of the most obvious pieces of crypto-native digital real estate has remained free:
the ticker.
there’s another reason I think the timing makes sense.
attention itself is becoming an asset class.
projects are experimenting with websites, usernames, placements and other pieces of internet real estate as things that can be owned, traded and repriced.
but tickers are different.
they’re native to the market.
you don’t have to send a trader somewhere new to see one.
the ticker is already sitting next to the price.
it’s already in the wallet.
already on the chart.
already in the trade confirmation.
already in every screenshot.
already in the conversation.
and unlike buying a token because you think someone will buy it from you later, renting a ticker has an extremely legible reason to exist.
maybe you’re launching.
maybe you’re running a campaign.
maybe you’re a community.
maybe you’re a protocol.
maybe you just believe a certain four-letter string is going to become culturally important.
you put a price on that belief.
someone else can disagree.
and if they value the name more, they take it from you.
that’s a market.
I don’t know how large the market for tickers becomes.
that’s what makes this worth building.
because until now, there hasn’t really been a market at all.
there has only been squatting.
the demand was hidden inside thousands of duplicate contracts, gas payments, launch threads and replies asking the same question over and over again:
“what’s the ticker?”
I built https://t.co/CmjwxIiYLT because I think the answer to that question should finally have a price.
@esther_shephard the ticker is the most valuable piece real estate.
onboarding is the hard part, and thats exactly what tickers skip.
240k tokens deployed last week.
every one of them has a name
the inventory deploys itself.
https://t.co/JRW02q5CaT
This isn't a meme
We win this by onboarding publishers
On that front, while we wait for feedback on the testnet, we're also building tools to make onboarding publishers as easy as possible
The first tool that we'll launch along with mainnet is a Chrome extension that makes it dead easy for publishers to tokenize their sites
An extension takes care of:
- Dynamic content not being visible on the site picker
- Content div identification
- Site identification
A beta is already live and you should be able to download it as a dev preview soon before it goes to the Chrome extension store
A total of 25m has been pulled in the past 7 days.
Thats 3.11m$ every single day.
Stats 🔽
lmk if you want the whole report
The biggest rugs on chain.
I was kinda shocked looking at these.
A total of 25m has been pulled in the past 7 days.
Thats 3.11m$ every single day.
Stats 🔽
lmk if you want the whole report
Another Scam on Robinhood
These idiots launch carbon-copy projects literally every single time
Watch out for their latest scam: @Harvest_RH
Cryptic teaser announcement
AI-generated videos featuring people performing actions in a consistent style
solana:GQ26xMQocFbPMZmYwisQ8CZEnQdZxsn31u7EKnqzpump token announcement way before there’s even a working product
Website links to Telegram and X - plus they added an email this time around
Rugs each day.
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