THE WORLD IS FLAT: WTF IS $WIF?
Closer to the official launch of Robinhood Chain,
@vladtenev hosted a keynote called "The World is Flat."
The first reaction was that it referenced the planet being flat rather than round, but it was actually a reference to Thomas Friedman's 2005 book The World Is Flat.
He argued that technology, fiber optic cable, cheap bandwidth, workflow software, had leveled the global economic playing field, so that a company in Bangalore could compete directly with one in Boston. "Flat" means no more high ground: geography stops determining who gets access to what.
Robinhood is claiming the financial version of that.
Markets are currently "round" in the sense that where you live determines what you can own, when you can trade it, and what it costs you. A retail investor in Lagos or Manila can't easily buy US equities, and even someone in New York can't trade them at 3am on a Sunday. Tokenized stocks on a blockchain, in their pitch, flatten that: same assets, same hours, same rails, anywhere. Hence the tagline about breaking down legacy financial borders.
This is what
@WIFonRH embodies: the core philosophy behind Robinhood Chain. While we've pumped a lot of animal coins and memestocks, this is the best cult coin, because it's simply the embodiment of Vlad's vision, and him liking their post today was an acknowledgement of that.
The logo they're using shows the attention to detail they have, since the "World is Flat" coins were gifted to all of the employees and participants at the Robinhood event.
And all of this is just the memetic part of the project.
The team has
@cryptogle as an advisor and already worked on past projects, so this isn't a group of beginners: they know what they're doing. Based on alphas from the discord, they're launching a platform that will both burn $wif and act on the principle that "being able to access opportunities should not be a privilege."
Rumors point to a dapp that lets people pool funds into a shared pot for an upcoming launch, so they can be among the first to buy, but on fair terms.
We'll see. But if the execution matches the branding, this is a flagship coin of the chain, on both the product and the memetic side.