The existence of pump-and-dump coins and fast-track/conspiracy schemes stems from market demand. > For the financiers behind pump-and-dump coins These coins are a financial tool, a way to potentially achieve over 10% monthly returns. This is exactly what the investors want. > For retail investors Retail investors have increasingly shorter attention spans—they simply can't 'hold long-term.' What they need are high-volume but highly volatile assets. In terms of strategy, this translates to: 'Holding time = risk accumulates geometrically.' So, trading methods that require short holding periods and deliver quick results have become the market consensus. This boils down to contracts and memes. You could say the consensus around memecoins is a mob mentality. But from the perspective of participants, as long as there's someone to take over the bag later, they're guaranteed to make money. It's like betting on TikTok's algorithm: Whoever sees a video first, those who see it later have to pay the ones who saw it earlier. In this sense, what everyone is really trading is the content distribution algorithm— or what people like to call 'the narrative.' > Where there's demand, there will always be supply. All kinds of contract pump-and-dump coins and on-chain conspiracy fast-tracks are simply what retail investors want—and what retail investors get.