The Inu Standard | Inunomics

The Premise

Agreement was always the product

For centuries, gold was the anchor. Not because it was particularly useful — because everyone agreed it mattered. That agreement was the product.

Now run that same logic on a screen.

A generation grew up watching attention move markets. GameStop. Dogecoin. A tweet about copper. The pattern is always the same: collective focus creates demand, and demand is the only price signal that matters.

The Inu Standard is the name for what happens when you stop pretending this isn't real.

The Dare

One tweet. That's all it took.

On January 26, 2026, someone tweeted that commodity traders didn't have to worry about a meme coin called Copper Inu.

That's all it took.

Within hours, $COPPERINU existed. Within days, it had a peak market cap north of $12 million. No pitch deck. No team page. No roadmap. Just a dare, a Pump.fun listing, and an internet that was paying attention.

They still call it dumb money. We call it fast.

What Actually Happened

The system worked exactly as designed

Here's what nobody wants to admit: the system worked exactly as designed.

Someone identified an asset with memetic energy. The internet priced it. Liquidity formed. A market existed — transparent, permissionless, and 24/7 — before most commodity desks opened for the day.

Every trade got logged on-chain. Every holder was verifiable. There was more transparency in the first 48 hours of $COPPERINU than in a decade of copper futures settlement.

And then the melts started.

The Melt

Where it gets structural

Every time someone trades $COPPERINU, a portion of the fee goes to buying tokens off the open market. Those tokens are then destroyed. Permanently. On-chain. Verified.

They don't call it burning. They call it melting — because when you're going up against copper, you speak the language.

~3% of the total supply is already gone. Not locked. Not frozen. Gone.

Trading fees ↓ Buybacks ↓ Permanent melts ↓ Less supply, same demand ↓ Repeat

You see where this goes.

The Argument They Can't Make

Try to move your copper

Actually try it. Call your broker. Ask them to send your physical copper to a friend in another country, right now, on a Sunday.

Now open your wallet. Send $COPPERINU. Done.

That's not an argument for replacing copper. Copper has millennia of industrial utility. This is an argument that speed, portability, and transparency are worth something — and the market agrees every single day.

Why It Sticks

Every dismissal is distribution

Most meme coins die because they're manufactured. Someone in a Discord says "let's make a coin about [thing]" and it goes nowhere because there's no genuine moment underneath it.

$COPPERINU came from a real dare. A verifiable tweet. A public challenge that the internet accepted in real time. You can't fake that origin.

And when people try to mock it, they just amplify the signal. Every quote-tweet is a rebroadcast. Every hit piece is a backlink. Every dismissal is distribution.

That's the definition of antifragile.

The Standard

20th century vs 21st

The Gold Standard anchored currencies to a physical metal sitting in a vault.

The Inu Standard anchors markets to attention.

One requires an act of Congress to move. The other requires a Wi-Fi connection.

Both are worth exactly what people collectively decide they're worth. The difference is speed. The difference is access. The difference is that one was designed for the 20th century, and the other was built by the 21st.

They'll call it a joke. They always do.

But the market cap wasn't a joke. The melts weren't a joke. The 25,000% surge from a single tweet wasn't a joke.

It was a standard being set.

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