c402.markets is a mintpad for internet coins. Internet coins can be used to generate attention and attract early adopters for a tech idea, meme, collective, startup, art collection — or basically anything that can be tokenized onchain.
When you launch an internet coin, you basically get two things: attention and instant revenue.
The revenue comes from trading fees. Once your coin is minted out (more info soon), liquidity will be added and locked on Uniswap V4. You receive 100% of the LP fees. c402.markets doesn't take a cut, so all fees go to you.
Not every app, agent, or protocol needs a coin, but that's not the point. The point is that a coin can exist purely to trade the attention an idea generates. It shouldn't be mistaken for an investment in building the idea.
The most successful ideas may eventually integrate their coins: as a quote token for TVL, through buybacks, or as a payment token. But that should happen later, not early. Adding a coin too soon, before an idea captures real traction, leads to a token price that reflects low demand.
Not every idea ever needs a coin integration. A coin can also be nothing else than a collectible tied to a meme or IP.
Launch your internet coin and start building. Grind on socials and entertain your holders. Don't make false promises.
Internet capital markets are among the riskiest markets out there. You are essentially minting ideas at their earliest stage.
An idea can be for software, such as a tool or an AI agent, for a protocol, for a meme, or for anything imaginable. Just because an idea has a coin does not mean that the coin will ever have an actual economic role, even if the idea takes off.
When you mint internet coins, you are not investing in a team or a project. You are basically riding the attention around an idea, and maybe that idea will end up capturing more value than the initial attention. However, the risk is that you can lose all your funds.
ICOs are a 2017-style fundraising method. Even when done via auction, raising a huge amount of money for an expensive team to develop software no longer reflects how software can be built in 2025 and beyond. Frontends and indexers can be vibe-coded, smart contracts can be AI-audited, and marketing content can be fully generated by AI.
There's also the inefficiency that much of the ICO money ends up being spent on exchange listings and market making. These costs aren't really necessary in a world where you can launch an AMM pool on Base and be auto-listed in the Coinbase app.
In contrast, ICMs are 10× fairer for participants: no funds are paid to devs upfront, and 100% of the raise goes into locked LP. Devs earn only if the idea is sticky and generates attention. And even then, because c402.markets does not charge any trading fees, ICMs are as minimally extractive as possible.