Inspired by Nate’s own words.
STONKS was tokenized and paired with SPY, with fees redirected to Nate to use however he sees fit, just like on $AI.
We personally? We like the stonk.
Now we’re building this out properly and welcoming every STONKS holder along for the ride.
Yes ETFs are cool I think it makes sense to run STONKS on SP500 ETF
The plan is supporting both on the short term and longer term every possible real world asset.
More assets will go live soon.
optionality is a key to build both memetic stock movements people like and utility projects.
The more tokenized stocks become native onchain assets, the more obvious $STONKS becomes.
Because no meme is more naturally positioned for that shift than the one that already became the internet’s default language for markets.|
attention compounds.
liquidity follows.
we snowball.
Most memes have to force a narrative.
STONKS already spent years living inside internet market culture.
What @vladtenev and @RobinhoodApp are building changes the surface area entirely. Equities are no longer limited to the brokerage layer. They’re becoming assets crypto can actually build, pair and form communities around.
@Natan_benish has been pushing the other side of that idea with @longdotxyz: stock traders and crypto traders aren’t two isolated audiences forever. Tokenization starts collapsing that distinction.
That’s where STONKS becomes interesting.
It isn’t a meme trying to borrow relevance from a stock. It’s a piece of internet market culture meeting the financial primitive it has referenced for years.
STONKS × SPY feels less like a manufactured pairing and more like the endpoint the meme was always built for.
Tokenized stocks are only half the story.
The other half is what happens when internet-native culture gets paired directly with real markets.
That’s where this gets interesting. STONKS
“There’s stock tokens … and there’s things that are that crypto native like memes. We’ve seen ... them being composed in ways that we couldn’t anticipate”
Stock pairing is groundbreaking tech, $AI is at the forefront of this movement 🥇