Wish for Change: Native meme infrastructure on Polkadot Hub (plaza.fun)
Summary
Hey Polkadot 👋
We're excited to bring this to the community. plaza.fun is a fair-launch meme token platform built natively on Polkadot Hub. We're asking one simple question:
Does the Polkadot community want native meme infrastructure on the Hub?
Vote AYE if you believe Polkadot Hub deserves a thriving meme culture. Vote NAY if you don't. Either way, we'll keep building — but we'd love to know where you stand.
What is plaza.fun?
When Robert Habermeier proposed the Plaza, he envisioned a hub waiting to come alive — "the New York City, Dubai, London, or Shenzhen of the Polkadot continent."
Every great city needs a marketplace. We're building the meme marketplace layer for the Hub.
plaza.fun lets anyone launch a meme token on Polkadot Hub through a bonding curve — no presale, no team allocation, 100% fair launch.
What Makes It Different
🔗 Native Assets, Not Contracts — Tokens are issued via pallet_assets at the runtime level, not ERC-20 contracts. In practice, this means assets live directly in the Polkadot runtime, with fewer moving parts, lower overhead, and native access from both Substrate and EVM tools (MetaMask, ethers.js — everything just works).
🌉 XCM-Ready From Day One — As native pallet_assets, tokens are built for cross-chain. No bridges, no wrapping.
🔥 Burn & Earn — When a token graduates to DEX:
- 90% of LP is burned — Liquidity permanently locked. Rug pulls via LP removal are structurally impossible.
- 10% of LP is locked — Creator receives a transferable FeeKeyNFT, earning DEX trading fees indefinitely.
On most meme platforms, creators dump and disappear. On plaza.fun, the rational move is to build a community — because your earnings grow with volume.
| Creators CAN'T | Creators CAN |
|---|---|
| ❌ Remove liquidity | ✅ Earn trading fees forever |
| ❌ Pause trading | ✅ Transfer or sell FeeKeyNFT |
| ❌ Mint more tokens | ✅ Build and grow their community |
A Note on Risk
While plaza.fun focuses on memes and culture, it is not investment advice and does not change the fact that meme tokens are highly speculative. Our goal is to provide safer, transparent infrastructure — not to encourage reckless behavior.
Current Status
This isn't a whitepaper. Contracts are deployed and verifiable on Polkadot Hub TestNet:
| Contract | Address |
|---|---|
| OmniBondingCurve | 0x34E34B0B7D0Fb20A83606Bdf15629f18D747FfFb |
| FeeKeyNFT | 0xE40e0FB79e94342d77E56f05C4c2D8D04391b5fc |
| PlazaSwapV2Router | 0xe1220F79cF5F655758007a9f11e6A82FDaEBFd45 |
| CreatorFeeVault | 0x4E37D1EC1d6A754e9eB3bF9C32f9925791F8AE5d |
| GraduationManager | 0x3cc15CBc84160696372732e26bB717B7dd091fe0 |
Verify everything on Blockscout.
What's Next
- ✅ Smart contracts deployed on TestNet
- 🔜 Block Party #0: Genesis — Public testnet launch (within a week)
- 🔜 Mainnet launch on Polkadot Hub (after sufficient public testing and audits where applicable)
- 🔜 Progressive open-sourcing of core components as the platform matures
- 🔜 Multi-chain expansion
Links
- 🌐 plaza.fun
- 🐦 @plaza_fun
- 👤 @elvis_build (Founder)
- 💬 t.me/plaza_fun
- 📄 Full Introduction on Polkadot Forum
TL;DR
plaza.fun = fair-launch meme platform on Polkadot Hub, with Burn & Earn creator economics. Contracts are live on TestNet. Vote AYE if you want native meme infrastructure on the Hub.
Memes will exist with or without plaza.fun — this referendum is about whether Polkadot Hub provides native, transparent infrastructure for them, instead of pushing users to external, riskier venues.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for voting — whichever way you lean. 🙏
Comments (3)
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Hey Polkadot community 👋
We originally submitted #1853 on the Small Tipper track — thanks to the feedback from @gatotech and others who pointed us toward Wish for Change as the right track for this signal vote. So here we are!
This referendum is currently waiting for the 20,000 DOT Decision Deposit (fully refundable) to move into the Deciding phase. As builders, we'd rather put our DOT into development and testing than lock it in governance deposits.
If anyone in the community is willing to place the deposit, we'd really appreciate it 🙏
Block Party #0: Genesis (public testnet) launches within a week. We're heads down building. 🔨
hi @plaza.fun ,
I like and support your Meme Infrastructure idea, but I would vote NAY on Robert Habermeier's vision for The Plaza... please consider separating those objectives, or clarifying the scope of your project..
Cheers and best of luck!
Milos
Thanks @gatotech — appreciate both the Aye and the honest feedback!
Good point and worth clarifying: plaza.fun isn't claiming to be the Plaza that Rob envisioned. His blog post inspired us — the idea of the Hub as a living city resonated, and we saw an opportunity to build one specific piece: a fair-launch meme marketplace.
We're a team of builders shipping a product on Polkadot Hub. The name is a nod to the vision, not a claim to own it. Happy to make that distinction clearer in our materials.
Thanks again for the support 🙏
Elivs