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DeFi: Robinhood's leading launchpad stapled $5B of memes to stocks
Pons, a meme-token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, pairs new tokens against tokenized Robinhood stock tokens instead of crypto, making it the top fee-generating protocol in DeFi at $1.45M/day. The structure mirrors Olympus DAO's 2021 bonding trick, using real equity exposure as collateral to give meme coins a quoted price, with one case pushing a wrapped HIMS token to $132 versus a $28 real close.
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