Here’s a simple explanation of how US stock-paired memes work. For fellow noobs like me, this might be a new concept, but the principle is super simple—you’ll get it right away. Originally, meme LPs were usually paired with USDT or ETH, like meme/USDT or meme/ETH. Users could just use USDT to buy meme directly. Now, with US stock pairing, it’s meme/US stock tokens, like meme/NVIDIA, where the underlying asset is replaced with US stock tokens. When users buy, they’re still using USDT or ETH to trade, but the routing process first converts your USDT into US stock tokens, and then uses those stock tokens to buy meme. In other words, all the funds used to buy meme first passively purchase US stock tokens, boosting the trading volume of those stock tokens before being swapped for the corresponding meme tokens. The liquidity pool is locked with meme and US stock tokens. This essentially brings a ton of buy pressure to US stocks indirectly, locking up circulating supply and reducing bubbles in the process. With wave after wave of meme hype, a massive amount of US stock tokens will eventually get locked in tens or even hundreds of thousands of different meme pools, which is bullish for those US stocks. The reason I’m interested is that this is a crypto + US stock play, aligning with American interests, so of course, it’s going to get hyped. Robinhood’s first wave was all about pure memes, but next, they’ll probably push US stock pairings. Right now, the platform doing this best is Long, and Pons is catching up. This is on par with the AI meme trend back in the day—definitely worth keeping an eye on.