Recently, I came across a pretty wild concept—directly fusing a Meme launchpad with a perpetual contract DEX.

Here’s the idea: some ecosystems might integrate launchpad functions and enable the “short on launch” move right out of the gate. Sounds crazy, but if you think about it, it actually addresses two long-standing major problems.

First, liquidity. Many new Meme coins are paper-thin on the secondary market after launch, with price swings driven purely by sentiment. Then there’s risk management—early holders can only sit and wait for a pump, with zero hedging tools. Whether you make a profit or take a loss is all down to luck.

If it were actually possible to open a perp contract market at the same moment a token launches, market makers and speculators could jump in right away, ensuring at least baseline liquidity. And as for early investors, they’d finally have a way to hedge their positions. Of course, whether this can be pulled off technically, or how regulators would view it, remains to be seen. Still, this approach does open up a new path for the financialization of Memes.