Cryptogangster

ad astra? & i wonder about @stardotfun, @getstonkoptions & @adamcreates_ new assets, new markets. frontier narratives & fresh metas. @getstonkoptions is live, the first platform of its kind in the meteora ecosystem: stonk rewards for workers. it comes from @stardotfun, an established launchpad built around founders launching new products. now star is launching products of its own, part of a wider trend among the launchpads that led the previous season. from platform to ecosystem meteora ecosystem launchpads are evolving beyond singular destinations. many new experiments are coming to solana 👀 and these platforms are becoming powerful ecosystems in their own right. they already have the technology, networks and experience, which means they may be able to speedrun their way into new markets faster than first-time founders starting from zero. in many cases, fees from these new products can flow back to the original platform. the renaissance is live @adamcreates_ and his team are famous on solana for their heightened sense of style and attention to detail. they bring that same instinct to stonk options. just look at the site. it is so, actually, sexy. stonkoptions.xyz the platform weaves renaissance imagery throughout its design. that feels fitting because stonk options is, in its own way, a renaissance. it feels like the first shots fired in a new kind of revolution. their site elevates tokenized stocks, stonks, to the level of traditional stocks. it forces us to consider a future in which there is parity between the two. actually, it goes further: it forces us to consider a world in which stonks are perceived as better than stocks. what about the workers? so far, trenchers have largely focused on CEOs. we have launched tokens around their companies, tagged them repeatedly and hoped their engagement would validate the market, bring attention and send the chart higher. almost no one focused on the workers. the people who clock in every day. the people who build these companies brick by brick. the people who pour years of their lives into creating value, often waiting for their stock to vest and hoping the company succeeds enough for their contribution to become meaningful. true to their highly creative character, adam and stardotfun team approached the stonks meta entirely differently: stonk options allows anyone to launch a token paired with a supported tokenized stock. trades generate fees, and those fees are used to reward verified employees in their employer’s tokenized stock. at the time of writing, more than $22,900 is waiting to be paid out to verified employees at companies including mcdonald’s, amazon and apple. what now? what next? the immediate focus is making it much, much bigger and bringing more verified employees onto the platform. the team is also integrating a program that will reward employees for talking about the tokens on social media, while rewarding tokenholders for onboarding those employees. stonk option's growth loop: - traders create activity. - tokenholders bring in employees. - employees receive rewards and introduce the experiment to the world outside crypto. - each group has a reason to strengthen the next. slowly but surely. @getstonkoptions is kinda fucking visionary when you think about it. it has always been about equity & genny wealth creation" who gets what. when you get it. how much you get. how much power comes with it. the world still runs on tradfi rails, and economic wealth remains deeply concentrated. a relatively small group of institutions still determines who can access markets, when they can participate and how ownership moves. crypto resists the natural order. crypto product users use financial tek to challenge the status quo & subvert norms. we are mostly extremely young, extremely online and unusually comfortable with risk. above all, we understand how to make almost anything liquid & tradeable. this knowledge makes us extremely powerful. we are not the new wall st. we are actually tougher, wilder & more reckless than ur average finance bro ever will be. we deserve to win. revolutions do not begin in boardrooms. so why the fuck are we still speaking only to CEOs? historically, talking to CEOs has not been how revolutions happen. lol. it has always been workers, ordinary people and a few brave individuals who decide that the current arrangement is no longer acceptable. the meme-stonks meta introduces chaos into a system built around control. increasingly, it creates an organic, beautiful balance... crypto natives trade the memes: we risk obscenely, win obscenely and lose obscenely. we volunteer ourselves for the trenches because, for better or worse, this is the game we understand. but we also know this is not a game for civilians. with stonks, normies do not need to play our war games. they never need to step into the trenches. they can reap the bounty and adopt tokenized stocks. so perhaps this is how we bring the world onchain? not by asking everyone to become a trader, bridge assets and learn every arcane mechanism we use to make money... but by building markets that make the violently cool things we do in the trenches useful to everyone else. my thoughts on adam: rising star ad fucking astra @adamcreates_ is one of the most persistent founders i have ever met. he is relentlessly focused on finding solutions, trying again and again to reach product-market fit. he has continued to raise the bar for tokenized founders on solana, supported by a team equally dedicated to balanced design and s-tier experiences. he represents the degen-crypto-builder-founder archetype well: relentlessly and aggressively pursuing ideas, while wrestling with web3 technology and all the weird, new mechanisms through which we attempt to create ownership, speculation and wealth onchain. & i wonder about @meteoraeco: wen escape velocity? the projects launching in the meteora ecosystem are entering a gladiatorial market. to survive, they have to be differentiated, aggressive and shrewd. they need to find new markets and be capable of dominating them. this is what makes meteora eco so interesting. we increase the likelihood that the projects which survive will represent some of the strangest, most ambitious and most creative experiments on solana. i think stardotfun & stonk options is one of the more creative new experiments we have on solana. & many more are coming. revolution is in progress. $22,900 in stonks rewards is a notable start. i wonder what happens if the number keeps going up? no. actually. this is the question: i wonder what happens when the number keeps going up? builders will win. stonk options is powered by meteora dbc. u can launch any token pair on solana, on meteora. meteora. permissionless gud fee tek. disclosures: i hold $star, will provide liquidity on meteora and earn fees from trading activity. i may sell some or all of my position over time. if i recover my initial capital, i intend to donate any remaining net profits to community-centred initiatives. this article reflects my personal opinions, based on publicly available information and personal observations. this article is not official meteora communication. i am sharing my personal conviction, not asking or encouraging anyone to buy $star. nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any asset. form your own convictions. your trades are your own decisions. stay safu. dyor. nfa. 🖖