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the path to $100b for solana:pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn might have less to do with convincing people to hold it.. and more to do with giving them reasons to use it. look at BNB. it started as an exchange fee discount before becoming an asset used for gas, liquidity and applications across an entire ecosystem. ETH went further.. becoming essential for paying transaction fees and securing ethereum. different models, same lesson. as the economy expanded, so did the reasons to acquire and use its native asset. right now the PUMP thesis is largely about pumpfun’s growth and revenue-funded buybacks. but imagine PUMP evolving from something people hold into something they transact with. custom pairs are already a first step. successful tokens can trade against assets other than SOL, with fees and eligible rewards denominated in the paired asset. if PUMP becomes a competitive quote asset, traders use it to access markets, LPs deploy it to earn fees and market makers hold it as trading inventory. curve and aerodrome proved there’s another layer to this.. liquidity incentives can become a marketplace of their own. projects compete for influence over where rewards flow because deeper liquidity helps them attract trading activity. pumpfun could eventually let projects fund incentives and acquire or lock PUMP for valuable liquidity-allocation rights. but utility means little without people using it. WIF helped bring a wave of attention to solana. people came for one meme and discovered an entire ecosystem. pumpfun now has the app, referrals, terminal and pumpswap to capture more of that journey. and like uniswap, pumpswap doesn’t need to launch every winning token to benefit from its secondary trading. the next WIF could launch somewhere else.. but its users could still trade through pumpfun and its liquidity could still end up on pumpswap. that’s where the pieces connect. more users create more trading opportunities. deeper liquidity improves execution. successful projects have reasons to compete for that liquidity. and if PUMP becomes useful across those markets, its demand no longer has to depend entirely on the protocol buying it back. there’s no guarantee.. PUMP isn’t ETH, it doesn’t have mandatory gas demand, and simply denominating trades in PUMP doesn’t create lasting buying pressure. the utility has to be genuinely competitive. but that’s the opportunity. turn PUMP from an asset people hold because they believe in pumpfun’s future into one they use because they’re participating in its economy. the path to $100b isn’t just getting more people to hold $PUMP.. it’s building an economy where more people have a reason to use it.