DECENTRALIZED FINANCE
Can Hoge Become “Heir to Doge”?
Less than three months ago, Hoge Finance changed the game by becoming the first meme coin with deflationary reflection mechanics. Since then, it has been overshadowed by “safe” copycats. Can it regain the crown to become the face of DeFi?
16 min readMay 3, 2021
By Hogefather, aka Jesse Rogers
The first question you might have is why should anyone take a meme coin seriously as an investment? Before we get to that, I have two questions for you.
- Do you know of anyone who puts a sports team’s mascot up in place of their profile picture on social media?
- Do you know of anyone who has a local utility company’s logo up in the same way as their profile picture?
Keep your answers to these questions in the back of your mind throughout the discussion in this article. We’re going to come back to them.
Use Case
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