The integration of social media and crypto trading is reshaping the user ecosystem. When a leading social platform launches built-in trading features, this platform with hundreds of millions of users essentially becomes a massive crypto consensus incubator.
Why are social platforms so fond of meme assets? The core reason lies in the consensus-driven mechanism. Unlike traditional financial assets that require complex fundamental analysis, the value of meme assets is entirely based on community consensus and virality. Characters like "dogs" naturally possess approachability and topicality, making them ideal carriers for the spread of consensus.
History provides us with references. A simple tweet or a like can ripple through the market. This reflects that when enough people form a unified perception, asset values are collectively recognized. The advantage of social platforms is that they are inherently hubs for information and emotional dissemination.
Compared to other platforms' conservative approaches—such as a certain video platform only allowing stablecoin payments—directly integrating trading functions is much more aggressive. This is akin to placing the gateway to the crypto ecosystem directly in front of every user, minimizing friction costs. In such an environment, meme assets, due to their low barriers, ease of dissemination, and social attributes, naturally become the easiest to resonate with.
In essence, this is a classic operation of traffic monetization—transforming the platform's existing user dividends into new growth momentum for the crypto ecosystem.
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ILCollector
· 2h ago
It's the same old trick of traffic harvesting again, social platforms are just thinking about how to empty users' pockets.
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BearEatsAll
· 6h ago
It's just about traffic monetization; the key is who can get in early and buy the dip to make money.
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HashBard
· 7h ago
sentiment metrics are screaming rn... this is just mass psychology dressed up as "consensus," tbh. the whole meme asset thing feels like watching a narrative arc collapse in real-time, but yeah, friction reduction hits different when you're trying to onboard millions. wonder how long before the discord pulse flips bearish on this model
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ParanoiaKing
· 7h ago
The day Dogecoin took off, I knew the era of social trading had arrived. Now it's the turn of meme assets to harvest the newbies.
The integration of social media and crypto trading is reshaping the user ecosystem. When a leading social platform launches built-in trading features, this platform with hundreds of millions of users essentially becomes a massive crypto consensus incubator.
Why are social platforms so fond of meme assets? The core reason lies in the consensus-driven mechanism. Unlike traditional financial assets that require complex fundamental analysis, the value of meme assets is entirely based on community consensus and virality. Characters like "dogs" naturally possess approachability and topicality, making them ideal carriers for the spread of consensus.
History provides us with references. A simple tweet or a like can ripple through the market. This reflects that when enough people form a unified perception, asset values are collectively recognized. The advantage of social platforms is that they are inherently hubs for information and emotional dissemination.
Compared to other platforms' conservative approaches—such as a certain video platform only allowing stablecoin payments—directly integrating trading functions is much more aggressive. This is akin to placing the gateway to the crypto ecosystem directly in front of every user, minimizing friction costs. In such an environment, meme assets, due to their low barriers, ease of dissemination, and social attributes, naturally become the easiest to resonate with.
In essence, this is a classic operation of traffic monetization—transforming the platform's existing user dividends into new growth momentum for the crypto ecosystem.