{"id":39201,"date":"2025-07-28T18:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39201"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:31:36","slug":"meme-coins-reflect-crypto-market-maturation-says-drift-protocols-cindy-leow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39201","title":{"rendered":"Meme Coins Reflect Crypto Market Maturation, Says Drift Protocol&#8217;s Cindy Leow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/memecoins\">Meme coins<\/a> represent a maturing crypto market, enabling users to rally behind narratives and launch tokens from scratch, according to <strong>Cindy Leow<\/strong>, co-founder of <strong>Drift Protocol<\/strong>, a <strong>Solana <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>)-based decentralized exchange (DEX).<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Benzinga, Leow highlighted the sustained relevance of meme coins, noting their role in showcasing the ability to create and trade tokens organically, despite recent market slowdowns. <\/p>\n<p>She emphasized that meme coin cycles within broader market cycles signal a growing sophistication in decentralized finance.<\/p>\n<p>Leow discussed Drift&#8217;s significant growth, with on-chain perpetual futures (perps) volume increasing fivefold in the past three weeks, driven by improved user experience (UX) and liquidity. <\/p>\n<p>She noted that past hurdles to on-chain perps adoption, such as onboarding and UX issues, have largely been resolved, making trading on DEXs comparable to centralized exchanges (CEXs). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The experience of trading on-chain is a lot better now than even a couple of months ago,&#8221; Leow said, underscoring Drift&#8217;s advancements in matching CEX performance.<\/p>\n<p>A key factor in Drift&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46669857\/meme-coins-reflect-crypto-market-maturation-says-drift-protocols-cindy-leow\" alt=\"Meme\" coins reflect crypto market maturation says drift protocol cindy leow>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meme coins represent a maturing crypto market, enabling users to rally behind narratives and launch tokens from scratch, according to Cindy Leow, co-founder of Drift Protocol, a Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based decentralized exchange (DEX). In an interview with Benzinga, Leow highlighted the sustained relevance of meme coins, noting their role in showcasing the ability to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-39201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}