Overview of the tokens with the largest gains on Robinhood today and noteworthy projects

Author: David, Deep Tide TechFlow

Welcome to the crypto bull market, or more accurately, the structural bull market of Robinhood.

In less than 1-2 weeks, the Robinhood on-chain ecosystem has fully blossomed, with new gameplay such as Meme/Launchpad/NFT/DeFi emerging one after another, and many noteworthy projects have surfaced.

At the same time, with targets like PONS and Cashcat already discovered at over 100M, other suboptimal targets are now experiencing exaggerated increases as liquidity floods in.

As of September 1, according to incomplete statistics, 30 meme coins with a market cap of over 1M have emerged on Robinhood, while meme coins above 5M are shown in the following image:

Additionally, there are 28 application-based token projects, categorized by sector as follows:

Besides this broader environment, several projects with exaggerated increases have also emerged today; if the crypto market remains stable, then newly launched projects theoretically have more attention and imaginative space.

Of course, there are assets that may quickly drop, but we can still discover some new directions and narratives that have caught the attention of funds.

1. Today's Best: $BONER, the "Viagra" of the weekend that broke the US stock market

Increase: $8M skyrocketed to $80M, a tenfold increase in a single day

HIMS is a US-listed company focusing on men's health and ED medications, hence this token is directly called $BONER (corresponding to male function in English). However, it is not just a simple meme token; the main liquidity pool does not use stablecoins but rather tokenized HIMS on-chain stocks.

Many newcomers may not understand the current core gameplay of the Robinhood chain, "Stock Paired Memes," so let’s explain it again:

In traditional on-chain gameplay, meme coins usually form liquidity pools with SOL, ETH, or stablecoins. But on this chain, memes can directly pool with tokenized US stocks.

Taking $BONER as an example, its main liquidity pool is BONER / HIMS. This "coin-stock" mechanism produced remarkable effects during the market closure. Last weekend, the NYSE was closed, and traditional market makers could not issue new HIMS stock tokens on-chain, which meant the supply of chips in the pool was locked.

As hot money flowed into buying $BONER, a large amount of HIMS tokens in the pool was locked, causing the on-chain price of HIMS to be pushed up to $132 at one point, while its actual closing price on Friday was only $28.8.

Although arbitrageurs will eliminate this premium after the market opens on Monday, $BONER successfully demonstrated the underlying logic of "locking US stock float with memes" to the entire market.

If you haven't realized what this means yet, consider this statement: "Every round of crypto bull market begins with innovation in asset issuance models."

Perhaps this is not an epic innovation on the level of ETH, but it successfully anchors the attention of meme issuance to US stocks, making it easier to draw stock traders into crypto.

The overly crypto narrative is about breaking out, using crypto assets to replace traditional assets; and now this binding of coin and stock is another way to break out. Crypto tokens may still be pure air, but when liquidity overflows, it can successfully penetrate the stock market with the attention condensed in short-term price forces.

In the short term, all of this is only on Robinhood. It is a brokerage, but it has now become a bridge linking crypto, retail investors, and the attention of coin-stock.

2. Capital Overflow from Coin-Stock Pairing: $AI Captures Nvidia's Computing Consensus

• Market Cap: Reached $190 million, continuing to hit new highs

Similar to Boner, $AI (Artificial Inu) is pegged to tokenized Nvidia (NVDA), positioning itself as "the Nvidia community on-chain."

This is also a typical phenomenon of capital overflow. After Boner validated the feasibility of the "coin-stock pairing" gameplay, the market's first reaction was to look for the deepest pools and the most widely recognized targets in the same sector. As the largest Nvidia pairing pool on-chain, $AI naturally attracted the largest amount of risk-averse and collective funds.

Following this logic, tokenized Micron in the same sector also welcomed capital follow-up:

• MOO / Micron MU, approximately $19.3 million
• SPACEHOOD / tokenized SpaceX SPCX, approximately $18.4 million
• AU / TSMC TSM, approximately $7 million
• QC / small-cap quantum stock QUBT, approximately $5.2 million
• QUANT / SPY, approximately $4.8 million
• $ORBIO / another NVDA pairing, approximately $2.6 million
• An experimental token on Solana for $ZEC, approximately $2.2 million

3. On-chain Infrastructure $UP and Other Already Discovered Targets

Currently, Robinhood has launchpads, DEX, dividends, and lending: alongside speculation, infrastructure is also being priced.

If BONER and AI are the chips brought to the table in this bull market, then UP is selling the table itself. The Robinhood chain needs to trade tokenized US stocks 24/7, and hot money needs to switch back and forth between memes and stocks, requiring someone to provide depth, matchmaking, and fee settlement. What UP does is this: a DEX/liquidity protocol running on the Robinhood chain, with an incentive model close to Velodrome's ve(3,3): locked voting, emissions exchanged for depth, and depth exchanged for transactions.

In the past two weeks, the market's attention has been entirely on launching new coins, finding pairings, and betting on the next hundred-fold dog. From the 31st to today, $UP has contributed approximately $180,000 in fees, becoming the fourth protocol on this chain to generate stable income.

At the same time;

-$PONS touched $442 million, continuing to hit new daily highs. You can understand this pricing anchor of infrastructure in this structural market as Robinhood's pump.fun, with fixed supply, one-click issuance, and protocol revenue flowing back to buy itself.

-$HOOKR reached approximately $20.7 million. Pons sells "can issue," while Hookr sells "what rules the pool runs after issuance." Uniswap v4's Hook has been broken down into anti-sniping, impact fees, automatic destruction, LP sharing, and prize pools, allowing token creators to assemble their own functions. After pushing up PONS, funds naturally seek out such mechanisms that are more geeky and have smaller market caps for supplementary increases.

-$INDEX ($44 million): The mechanism is a violent aesthetic. The transaction extracts a 3% tax, all used to buy tokenized US stocks, and automatically airdrops to holders every 15 minutes. It achieves a leap from "air narrative" to "holding real stocks."

-$DENAR ($3.1 million): An on-chain securities collateral pawnshop. It allows users to collateralize their stock tokens to borrow stablecoins (single stock LTV approximately 62.5%). It fills the financial gap of stock tokens being "only tradable, not interest-earning loans."

-$PICKLES ($2.7 million): The narrative is Robinhood AI trading agents.

Robinhood launched Agentic Trading in May: Claude / ChatGPT / Grok can place orders under independent accounts. On-chain, there are projects like hoodpocket and Agents in Hood that provide wallets and risk control for agents. $PICKLES benefits from this product news.

Other discovered targets in the same sector include:

Solana cross-chain utility token $STONKBROKER (83M), as well as early tools/community coins ARROW (14.8M), CLAN (9.2M), TWO (7.5M), OTC (5.2M), VLR (4.7M).

4. $MARKETPLIER: Celebrity buys stock in GoPro

Performance: Market cap reached $3.9 million

Bloomberg disclosed that top YouTuber Markiplier quietly became the single largest shareholder (holding about 8.5%) of the struggling micro-cap stock GoPro. GoPro has long suffered from low stock prices and ongoing operational concerns, and the news of a celebrity major shareholder entering the scene caused GoPro's stock to surge nearly 100% during and after trading.

Sharp on-chain funds quickly followed suit, launching the token $MARKETPLIER. The community even spread the rumor that "he put in 30% of his net worth" to all-in on this stock, with reports suggesting he bought in for closer to $8 million to $9.3 million to become the largest shareholder.

At the same time, in a context of extreme capital abundance, many pure emotional tokens without clear mechanisms also experienced premiums:

Independent chef token $RABBIT (10M); as a micro-robot Beta $MACRODUCK (7M) and $Microduck; dog meme $PONGO (5.8M) attached to Pons launchpad heat; based on the vague expectation of "the official might issue something new" $ROBINCAT (1.3M); and animal and meme templates like HOME (5.7M),APEC (5M), $FLORK (2.4M), HACHI (2.3M), andSTARTUP (1.7M).

Finally, I believe the essence of this market is that on-chain liquidity has begun to substantively compete for the pricing power of traditional financial assets.

Robinhood is no longer "just another L2 that can issue dogs," but an L2 that can "lock US stocks into pools while issuing dogs." All the exaggerated increases today are market-making for this statement.

When the speculative frenzy subsides, this statement will certainly be falsified, which will be the day these assets are repriced. But creating assets during the speculative frenzy is a consistent mainline of crypto, and it is a practice that every crypto player undergoes repeatedly in an environment of information overload and time pressure, navigating between FOMO and profit-taking.