FOMO’s trading experience is like a side street, so why is it still so powerful? Because making money with memes and “trading skill” in spot/contract/prediction markets are completely different things. Spot trading, prediction markets, and contracts bet on price forecasts. No matter how much you shout signals, you can’t change the probability of Trump winning the presidency or tomorrow’s oil price. Meme coins judge counterparty behavior and whale intentions. Your signals might attract some counterparties, but the capital volume controlling the market is so massive that even if you bring in buyers, it doesn’t mean you’re the one profiting. But memes are different. As long as you enter early enough, anyone who buys after you—so long as you exit quickly—guarantees you profit. So the “winning formula” for memes is just two things: > Enter low enough > Be loud enough “Shouting” doesn’t have to mean traditional signal-calling. On-chain, publicly buying with real identity is shouting. Influence determines how many follow. Followers determine your guaranteed profit. If you lack both abilities, you’re gambling on whether someone else who can shout will still attract buyers after you enter. The Two Saints, Vlad, Trump, Musk— or even abstract consensus and narratives— all describe the same thing. But none are direct. None guarantee wins. What guarantees wins? Buy low. Shout hard. Memes are CX—not trading. Every follower you attract is real, realized paper profit— like a company’s revenue multiple. A trench is essentially a CX sales system. Each verified account is a community leader. Through FOMO’s social trading product “thesis and algorithms,” liquidity from the trench is efficiently directed. Just like livestream e-commerce on Douyin: telling retail traders where to concentrate liquidity. After all, retail traders only buy what they see. Meanwhile, community leaders earn infinite commissions with zero responsibility. This is also why行情 on every chain eventually fragments: because fragmentation creates positive EV for those within the fragment. PVE is a fleeting illusion. PVP is the long-term Nash equilibrium. Many KOLs once declared: “Memes are dead—who buys memes when you can buy US stocks on-chain?” But in reality, meme infrastructure—launchpads, trading terminals— often earns more than Hyperliquid. They don’t understand why memes still live. They think it’s a conspiracy—exchanges, VCs, big KOLs manipulating things. They never realize it’s simply market choice. Memes thriving long-term is normal. Only long-term viability turns it into a real career for most people. Trading cycles with bull and bear markets. But sales industries only have peak and off-seasons. The lesson for us as project builders: Don’t just vaguely say “build a gambling platform.” Understand why it can be a sustainable real business. Build platforms where ordinary people can directly improve their outcomes through effort. Sales > Trading. After all: The ultra-disciplined, the great fortune-tellers, the chosen ones with luck— these are extremely rare among the global population.
