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$Pointless 505K 0x71a9835b8c4df70bdae613b1cfa91bf35240de4e web3.okx.com/ul/TNHQDmY?ref=… A few days ago, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said something very clear in a CNBC interview. Crypto can't stay stuck on Bitcoin and meme coins forever. The real future is stocks, bonds, private company equity, and other real-world assets being brought on-chain. The community distilled his point even more bluntly: issuing hundreds of tokens with no real use is a pointless exercise. And then the market did the most crypto thing imaginable. It launched a meme called $Pointless directly on Vlad's own Robinhood Chain. The whole story forms a deeply ironic closed loop. Vlad says memes have no point. The community launches Pointless on his chain. And more and more people start trading real money for this pointlessness. That's the core narrative of $Pointless. It has no product. No roadmap. No grand AI whitepaper. Even the project name openly admits it: this thing has no point. But that's where the most absurd part of the meme market lies. The harder a token tries to prove it has value, the more the market tends to doubt it. Yet when it tells everyone straight up—I have no utility, I have no goal, I am Pointless—it suddenly gains an identity everyone can understand and everyone can spread. Last year's $USELESS already validated this exact logic. No tech. No real use. It literally put "useless" into its name and still ran up to roughly a four-hundred-million-dollar market cap. Because a meme's value never comes from functionality. It comes from a consensus simple enough that everyone gets it: we all know it's pointless, but we all collectively endorse this pointlessness. What sets $Pointless apart from $USELESS is that it carries an additional layer of Robinhood-native irony. Robinhood Chain's official vision is to bring genuinely valuable financial assets on-chain. Vlad wants to steer the crypto industry toward RWAs. The market responds with its actions: we can trade stock tokens and keep aping into memes at the same time. This isn't a rejection of Robinhood Chain's vision. Quite the opposite. A truly open, permissionless public chain means the founder gets to decide what he wants to build, but he can't decide what the community is allowed to trade. Robinhood can take charge of bringing Wall Street on-chain. But it can't stop internet culture from coming along for the ride. So what $Pointless is truly competing for isn't the position of the most useful project on Robinhood Chain. It's the meme whose name and anti-narrative were personally provided by the Robinhood CEO. The biggest catalyst for this narrative is also very simple. If Vlad talks about "useless tokens" again down the line, or responds to the flood of memes on Robinhood Chain, the community can keep turning every one of his criticisms into fuel for $Pointless to spread. The more he insists memes have no point, the more reason this meme called Pointless has to exist. Of course, Vlad's interview didn't mention this specific contract. It's simply a satirical on-chain experiment created by the community based on his views. But sometimes, the best memes don't need official recognition. They just need the official side to accidentally say their name.