Crypto built the trading stack, matching, settlement, custody, liquidity, price discovery. Often improving on the TradFi original.
The ownership stack is the legal apparatus that makes long-term investing work in TradFi: fiduciary duty, residual claims, priority in liquidation, anti-dilution protections, disclosure regimes, regulated microstructure, standing to sue, etc...
None of that is importable into crypto natively. That's why the RWA/tokenized equity movement exists โ use crypto for trading, retain the TradFi legal stack for everything else.
That's the sellout route.
The harder route is to replace the TradFi ownership stack with a crypto-native structural substitute.
Bitcoin replaced central-bank-issued money with a fixed-supply schedule and proof-of-work issuance. Sound money without central banks.
Ethereum replaced legal contract enforcement with deterministic code execution. Contracts without courts.
Uniswap replaced regulated exchanges with permissionless AMM-based trading. Exchanges without regulators.
The crypto-native move: take a legal-apparatus-dependent function in TradFi, replace it with a structural substitute. Deliver the buyer-relevant outcome without the legal apparatus.
Ownership is what crypto hasn't built yet.
That's the misalignment.
I'm going to explain the rules of the memecoin game.
I had a look at $ANSEM so lets use that as an example.
$399M market cap. Seven pools, $3.6M of SOL exit liquidity. $2.3M of that sits with LPs on Meteora and Orca who pull the moment flow turns. The burned pool from graduation holds $1.3M of SOL.
The token graduated off pump's curve near $100K of market cap. Price is up 4,000x since. Constant product pools grow the quote reserve with the square root of the price move, so a 4,000x pump grew the SOL side by a factor of 63.
Buyers filled six more pools on the way up, and LPs topped them up chasing fees. All of that money together sits at $3.6M today.
The game: $400M of "market cap" with an exit door between $1.3M and $3.6M wide.
And the next level costs almost nothing. A billion-dollar $ANSEM is a 2.5x from here. The exit door grows to $5.7M while the market cap grows by $600M.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
@AnonVee_ There's about 3.5m of visible exit liquidity right now, once the selling starts, total locked exit liquidity is gonna be about 1.2m.
Only a few will make it to the exits in time.
@llamaonthebrink Great point! This isn't just governance, it's a paradigm shift. Would you like me to elaborate further or generate additional thoughts?
@codec_fox23974@berachain@binance For BERA/USDT, is there a disclosed absorption path for post-tokenomics supply and market-maker inventory, or are spot holders carrying the whole imbalance?
@CryptoJuncky@gavofyork@Polkadot If itโs an airdrop or $DOT only sale, what is the liability side: real holder claim on future cash flows, or just a subsidy funded by new issuance?