Mecone

@simononchain @xanwesley @a16z @speedrun Best place to chat is telegram @xanwesley

@xanwesley @meconemarkets @a16z @speedrun huge congrats! dm's closed but would love to learn more!

We’re excited to announce that @meconemarkets will be joining @a16z @speedrun as part of the SR007 cohort. I’m also happy (and sad) to say that I’ll be leaving Stanford Law School to pursue this dream full time. Mecone started from a core thesis: the financial system of the future will be built on blockchain rails with Perpetual Futures (“Perps”) as one of the primary tools for speculation and hedging. This future will lead to markets that are more open and global, markets where participants of every kind, retail and institutional alike, trade more of the world’s assets with less friction than ever before. With this future in mind, we’re building the financial infrastructure to make everything tradeable. Today, Perps only exist on a handful of assets — the biggest commodities, FX, public equities, crypto. But there are a myriad of highly attractive long-tail assets that Perps have failed to reach. Mecone exists to change that. We build continuously updating benchmarks for long-tail underlyings such as fine art, real estate, pre-IPO companies, macroeconomic indicators, and many more. When @hugo_stack, @jaffarkeikei, and I first met, none of us imagined we’d start a company. But the prospect of making some of the global economy’s most valuable and illiquid assets tradeable by anyone, anywhere, anytime was too interesting of a challenge to pass up. We’re working to list our indices on exchanges now! Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know the moment they go live. mecone.trade Big shoutout to Halim Labi, Aristotle Mannan, and Reuben Youngblum for supporting us from the very beginning. Also, thank you to @JoshLu, @Chen, @justmazer, @tmhammer, @kenanhsaleh, @_CallMeMacy, @emilybenn12, @tkexpress11 and the whole a16z speedrun team. Thank you @luca_skarlo and the Skarlo® team for whipping up an incredible website on such short notice. And, most importantly, we couldn't have done any of this without our families. Love you guys!

@Eli5defi @EasyA_Kickstart @Heistedxyz @pascaldottrade @ground_onchain @Hertzflow_xyz @CambrianNetwork @paywithpyre @OrnnExchange @getmoni_io Mecone 🤝

➥ Project Spotlight - Week 26/2026 Here are 9 handpicked projects you'll want to explore. ➢ @EasyA_Kickstart ➢ @Heistedxyz ➢ @pascaldottrade ➢ @ground_onchain ➢ @meconemarkets ➢ @Hertzflow_xyz ➢ @CambrianNetwork ➢ @paywithpyre ➢ @OrnnExchange Powered by @getmoni_io and @_dexuai Below you will find brief summaries for each. Let's dive in! … — 📌 | EasyA Kickstart Permissionless idea launchpad inside the big EasyA ecosystem (Web3 education app with 1M+ users that has spun out projects backed by a16z, YC, Founders Fund, etc.). Anyone launches “idea coins” via fair-launch bonding curves; backers buy in early to trade/support. Pure speculative token plays for ideas/projects (no equity). … — 📌 | Heisted A hyper-speculative onchain co-op heist simulator/game where players team up to rob banks, pull heists, and steal money directly on-chain. It’s built as a viral, narrative-driven consumer crypto game built by @weretuna (CEO of Pandemic Labs). … — 📌 | Pascal Trade Prediction markets built specifically for traders. Clean UX focused on trading, not just event betting. and they recently opened first batch of invite codes. … — 📌 | Ground Embedded onchain finance/yield infrastructure. One API turns stablecoins or cash balances into yield-bearing accounts with wallets, accounting, and policy controls, fintech UX, no gas pain for users. For neobanks, fintechs, treasuries. … — 📌 | Mecone Instead of just crypto or stocks, Mecone lets exchanges offer perpetual futures on real-world economic indices (and eventually anything). Traders can speculate on macro events like inflation, GDP growth, or unemployment rates directly via perps. Backed by @a16z and @speedrun … — 📌 | HertzFlow Leverage/perps engine for “perpifying everything.” Testnet live. Also building onchain forensic/analysis tools (e.g., fake volume detection). Backed by @YZiLabs. … — 📌 | Cambrian Financial intelligence API/layer for AI agents and institutions. Provides real-time data/tools for better onchain financial decisions. … — 📌 | Pyre Early payments app in the “entertainment finance” category and the first consumer apps from @Sophon, User can spend/save/send/earn with a gamified twist, every transaction opens a “bill” you can play/flip or settle. Card that lets you pay and play. … — 📌 | Ornn Financial infrastructure for the compute economy (GPU/AI infra as tradable asset class). Products include price indices (OCPI), futures/perps on compute hours, physical capacity aggregation (Ornn Compute), and hedging tools. Recently raised big (~$33M led by @a16zcrypto).

We’re a group of Stanford students building a U.S based perpetual futures exchange for every market on earth (e.g real estate, fine art, AI-compute, etc). Problem: Hundreds of trillions of dollars in alternative assets are currently untradeable. Institutional owners of the underlying assets want to but can’t hedge their exposure and retail wants to but can’t speculate on them. Solution: We built a novel mathematical framework that fixes this problem.

Last day to apply to @a16z @speedrun SR007. As an a16z speedrun scout, I've already referred 2 startups who got accepted Sell me your product in one sentence. I will rate each of them with one sentence feedback. Those who are above 9, I will reach out directly and schedule an instant meeting.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Mecone is a mix of a prediction market and a perp exchange. The prediction market serves primarily as a price discovery mechanism. We use that and some math to generate a continuously updating reference price for these illiquid markets. Then we built a perp exchange that references that price. We think it’s the best approach to finally let retail traders access these illiquid markets.

@meconemarkets Very comprehensive, A perp and prediction market is majorly what you're working on right ?