The Year of the Launchpad
The financialization of everything.
2025 is a sequel.
2024 was all about the pump.fun meta. It started as fun, chaotic but ended up in people suffering from pain from the casino as extraction peaked with the LIBRA event.
Now, that chaos is being refined. The noise has started to form signal. We're not just launching tokens for vibes anymore, though that still happens plenty, we’re launching products, platforms, brands, even economies. And for once, the tokens on Solana actually intend on doing something beyond price go up.
The core of this new phase? Launchpads.
Pump fun was the main meta and we are now seeing that evolve and taken to the next step with all launchpads throughout this year.
Believe App (Internet Capital Markets) was the first one to push this into niche flywheels, where launch mechanics become an extension of the brand. Now, we’re seeing contenders emerge that tie tokens into everything from IRL drops to vibe-coded apps.
In an industry starving for use cases, launching is becoming the use case.