Bankless · Wednesday, September 23, 2026
A new innovation in the meme coin space is the emergence of stock-paired meme coins, where a cryptocurrency is directly linked to a publicly traded stock. Artificial Inu (AI), paired with NVIDIA, is highlighted as a bellwether for this trend, with platforms like Wong.xyz enabling this pairing.
“I would argue that every cycle memes have been like at least a bit of an undertone of what happens. Like, I don't think that 2024 was the first time that meme coins were really like Dogecoin was, you know, one of the larger onboarding things to crypto in general.”
“Yeah, I mean, I think so. It's ironic, of course, right? Robinhood finally starts tokenizing things like stocks and the first thing people do with it is create meme stocks, right?”
“Artificial Inu AI, it's fitting like the dog Shiba Inu meme coin form factor. So it's a homage to Shiba Inu. And then it's paired with NVIDIA.”