Meme stocks, tokenized
A meme stock is a real, listed company whose share price is driven as much by an online crowd as by its balance sheet. GameStop and AMC in January 2021 are the names that defined the term, after traders on Reddit's r/wallstreetbets squeezed a heavily shorted retailer into the biggest retail-trading story of the decade.
The difference here is that these are tokenized: the same companies, held one-for-one by the issuer, tradeable around the clock instead of only while the exchange is open. And on MemeStonks.AI you can do the thing a broker cannot — launch a meme coin paired to one, so its holders are paid in the stock itself. That is what we call a meme stonk.
The meme stocks, and why they earned the name
GME — GameStop
GameStop is the stock the phrase was coined for — the January 2021 short squeeze organised on Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, which turned a struggling game retailer into the defining retail-trading story of the decade.
AMC — AMC
AMC was lifted by the same 2021 retail wave as GameStop, and the cinema chain leaned into it — issuing shares to the retail holders who had renamed themselves its apes.
Not tokenized on Solana yet, so it cannot be traded or paired here.
HOOD — Robinhood
Robinhood was the broker at the centre of the 2021 squeeze, and its decision to restrict buying became the flashpoint. The company later listed, and is now itself a stock retail traders follow closely.
TSLA — Tesla
Tesla had a retail following and a meme-driven share price years before 'meme stock' was a phrase anyone used.
MSTR — MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy is traded largely as a proxy for the bitcoin on its balance sheet rather than for its software business, which makes it the bridge between meme stocks and crypto.
COIN — Coinbase
Coinbase is crypto's own listed equity, so it moves with the market it lists — the stock crypto traders reach for without leaving the equity market.
PLTR — Palantir
Palantir built one of the largest retail shareholder bases on the market, and trades on that following as much as on its contracts.
Meme stocks — common questions
What is a meme stock?
A meme stock is a real, listed company whose share price is driven as much by an online crowd as by its balance sheet. GameStop and AMC in January 2021 are the names that defined the term.
Can you buy meme stocks with crypto?
Yes — the meme stocks listed here are tokenized on Solana, held one-for-one by the issuer, so they can be bought and sold from a crypto wallet without a brokerage account.
Can you trade meme stocks 24/7?
Tokenized stocks trade around the clock rather than only during exchange hours, so a meme stock can be traded at night and at the weekend.
What is a meme stonk?
A meme stonk is the crypto version: a meme coin paired to a real tokenized stock, so the coin's holders are paid in that stock from the coin's own trading tax.