base reported $170m in tokenized stock volume over the weekend. i think that matters for memes more than another official account posting a ticker. i get why people are frustrated. you hold a base coin, your chart looks terrible, and the next announcement is about custody or payments. cool. when does any of this help my bag? but i keep thinking we might be looking for the payoff too early. > coinbase just announced its federally chartered trust company > @base is putting tokenized stocks and defi markets in front of users > @clanker_world lets you launch memes paired with tokenized stocks > trading those memes can pay creators and holders in the stock token itself when i first wrote about $bluechip, my thesis was that a meme could bring people into tokenized nvidia. now i'm interested in the reverse. if people already come to base to trade stocks, borrow or move money, what can communities build around those assets? imagine a meme community collecting nvdac from trading activity, then building tools, games or agent treasuries around it. the pieces are already there. i'm not expecting a custody client to wake up and buy our bags. i'm betting that more assets, more users and more reasons to keep money onchain give memes more chances to find an audience. a chain can get a weekend of attention from a few coins going vertical. i'm more interested in what brings people back once those charts stop working. maybe base is taking too long. maybe i'm early on this again. but i think some of the most bullish updates for base memes are going to look incredibly boring when they arrive.