Intermediate

Meme Coins and Launchpads: How They Actually Work

Where meme coins came from, the machinery underneath them (bonding curves, graduation, fee splits), and the failure modes, with the real numbers.

6 lessons

Meme coins are extremely high risk. Never risk money you cannot afford to lose entirely.

Meme coins are the most visible and least understood corner of crypto. This course takes them seriously as a mechanism: the internet culture that produced them, the launchpad machinery that industrialised them, and the documented ways they fail. It is descriptive, not promotional. Nothing here recommends buying anything.

Chapters & lessons

Where Meme Coins Came From

From forum jokes to meme stocks to a token launched every few seconds.

The Machinery

Bonding curves, graduation, locked liquidity, and who gets paid on every trade.

The Failure Modes

Rugs, honeypots, snipers, insiders, and the numbers nobody puts on the poster.

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