How Meridian works
Meridian is a token launchpad on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663) where every memecoin launches paired to a tokenized foreign-listed stock — Tencent, Meituan, Xiaomi, with Shanghai names to follow. Every one of them trades on an exchange outside the United States, and none are listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ. The pairing isn't a sticker on a website: launch creates an actual on-chain Uniswap v4 pool between your token and a synthetic stock that tracks the real share price. Your coin and the stock trade against each other, 24/7, forever.
Launching a token
Launches are real and non-custodial: your wallet submits every transaction. Fill in the name, ticker, description, image and socials, pick a world stock, and hit Launch — the site switches your wallet to Robinhood Chain and deploys the token with your metadata embedded in the contract. Supply is 1,000,000,000, fixed at launch. The launch fee is gas only.
The launch transaction opens two live Uniswap v4 pools at once: an ETH pool holding 80% of supply that starts the token around $4,000 market cap, and a stock pool holding 20% of supply at the exact same price. An optional developer buy executes inside the launch transaction itself, so nobody can front-run your own launch. A 1.00% LP fee accrues on every trade and the creator collects the majority of it.
The two pools
The ETH pool is the trading venue: native-ETH quoted, hookless, and indexed by every scanner — GMGN, DexScreener, the routers. It's where the price, the chart and the routes live, and it's exactly how the biggest launchpads on Robinhood Chain structure their pools.
The stock pool is the identity: your memecoin sitting in a real AMM against tokenized Tencent or Meituan. When the meme pumps against ETH, arbitrage drags the stock pool with it — anyone can buy the meme with the stock or dump the meme into the stock, any hour of any day. Liquidity in both pools is locked in the launchpad contract forever.
Why scanners show "ETH" as the pair
Open a freshly launched Meridian token on GMGN or DexScreener and the pair field will read ETH. That is the scanner describing the pool it is able to price — not the whole story of what your token is paired with.
Scanners only quote pools denominated in assets on their own whitelist: ETH, WETH and USDG on this chain. Our tokenized stocks are not on that list yet — they are new assets issued by the Meridian vault, and no indexer has added them as quote currencies so far. Until one does, the MEME/STOCK pool is listed but left unpriced, so the header falls back to the ETH pool, which is exactly why we open one: price, charts and buy routes work everywhere from the first block.
The stock pairing is live regardless, and you can check it yourself. Every launch opens a real Uniswap v4 pool between your token and its tokenized stock, seeds it from the supply, and trades it inside the launch transaction. It appears in the token's pool list on the scanner, in the pool records on the Robinhood Chain explorer, and on this site — where buys and sells route through the stock and the token page prints the live price denominated in it. Look up any launched token on the explorer and the pool is there on-chain.
Two more things carry the pairing no matter what a scanner displays: the on-chain symbol of every launch is written as TICKER-STOCK (so a coin paired with Tencent trades as $PEPE-TENCENT everywhere the ticker appears), and the pool itself is permanent and locked. When indexers add the vault stocks as quote assets, the pair label updates on its own — nothing has to be redeployed, relaunched or migrated.
The world stocks
The paired stocks are synthetic tokens issued by the Meridian vault. Each one tracks its real share price via an oracle — HK$ and ¥ converted to USD, then to ETH — and can be minted or redeemed against the vault at that price like a stablecoin pegged to the stock. Every listed stock carries a small transfer tax that funds the keeper who maintains the price feeds.
Live stocks: Tencent (0700.HK), Meituan (3690.HK) and Xiaomi (1810.HK).
The listing rule. Meridian lists a company only if its shares trade outside the United States. That distinction is about the listing venue, not the country: plenty of Chinese companies are dual-listed in New York, and those don't qualify. Alibaba trades as BABA on the NYSE. JD and Baidu trade on the NASDAQ. Any American with a brokerage account can already buy them, so they are on our side of the line and we don't list them.
Tencent, Meituan and Xiaomi are different: their shares trade in Hong Kong (0700, 3690, 1810) and are not listed on any U.S. exchange. A U.S. investor can't buy the actual listing through a normal broker — at best a thin over-the-counter receipt. Those are the listings we tokenize, alongside Shanghai names like Moutai and ICBC as the keeper adds them.
So the rule is simple, and it's the whole brand: if you can buy it on the NYSE or NASDAQ, it's the wrong side of the meridian.
The peg
Each synthetic stock is redeemable against the vault at the oracle price, so its value is anchored the same way a stablecoin's is: mint when it's rich, redeem when it's cheap. The vault keeper syncs prices from the live market feeds, and every sync is a public transaction you can audit on the explorer.
Liquidity
Both pools are seeded in the launch transaction and the positions are held by the launchpad contract itself — there is no LP token to dump and no admin withdraw. Trading fees accrue to the positions and are split between the creator and the platform when collected. Nothing closes, nothing halts: the pools quote every second of every day.
The Meridian meta
Every memecoin is a bet with a face on it. Here the face is a stock America can't touch — your coin lives in the same pool as tokenized Tencent, pumps against Meituan, holds Moutai as its reserve asset. The meme is the marketing; the stock pool is the receipt. Always the far side of the line.