A few days ago, I received a token voucher issued by MET. Although it was only 4u, let's talk about MET today:
Meteora (MET): The king of liquidity on Solana, the new battlefield for AI + Launchpad in 2025
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In 2025, the Meteora (MET) Solana DeFi tool is starting to take off! It is not an ordinary DEX but a dynamic liquidity manager + Launchpad platform that helps project teams and LPs earn big. In simple terms, MET = the 'liquidity engine + launch tower' of the Solana ecosystem — optimizing pools to reduce impermanent loss and allowing for one-click token issuance. The current price is approximately $0.25-0.32 (data from December 2025), with a market cap of $119-182M, FDV over $230M, and a 24h trading volume of $27-55M, holding over 20-26% share in Solana DeFi. Meteora
Who released it? How fierce is the history?
Meteora was established by the Solana ecosystem team in 2023 (inheriting Mercurial Finance), with the mainnet launching in 2024 and the TGE (Token Generation Event) on October 23, 2025. The founders are low-key, but the team has a background in Solana Labs, with partners including Jupiter and Magic Eden. Funding exceeded $10M (community round + ecosystem fund), and in December 2025, they announced a $10M MET buyback + Comet Points system to alleviate dilution. From beta testing to Q3 revenue of $17M (422k+ tokens launched), with TVL exceeding $800M, it has proven its strength.
Total amount and mechanism:
How to play with scarcity? MET has a total supply of 1 billion, with 48% in circulation (485 million), and 52% for the team/ecosystem (6 years vesting, gradual unlocking). The mechanism is like 'liquidity points': LPs provide pools to earn MET rewards, and project parties pay with MET to launch (initiate projects). AI-driven liquidity optimization (integrating ML algorithms to dynamically adjust pool parameters, reducing 20% IL, impermanent loss), deflation relies on fee burning + buybacks (2.3% of supply already bought back in 2025), becoming scarcer the more it is used.
What is it mainly used for now?
Dynamic LP (liquidity provision): Automatically adjust pools to reduce impermanent loss (DLMM technology).
Launchpad (project launch platform): 422k+ tokens have been issued, supporting meme, prediction markets, and RWA.
staking: Lock MET for an annualized return of 10-20% (ecosystem fee dividends).
Enterprise integration: Meteora + AI in RWA (real-world assets) 'intelligent liquidity' (AI predicting liquidity demand, optimizing real estate token pools).
Historical price performance:
Low-key 10x 2025 TGE (Token Generation Event) $0.15 → ATH $1.71 (October 9, up 11x+) → Current $0.25-0.32 (pullback 81-86%). Why? Launchpad fees of $88M in Q3 drove early surges, but market corrections + unlocking price suppression occurred. Small market cap is easy to double.
Commercial underlying logic: Why is MET a 'DeFi infrastructure'?
Meteora is a dynamic AMM platform (automated market maker platform): It uses DLMM (dynamic liquidity market maker) + Solana's high TPS to automatically optimize pool depth. The logic is 'liquidity economy': project parties need efficient launches, and users need low IL (impermanent loss) LPs (liquidity provision). The integration of AI + RWA (real-world assets) (AI algorithms predicting market volatility, dynamically adjusting RWA pools to avoid fragmented liquidity) makes Meteora the 'liquidity hub' of Solana.
Profit model: Where does the money come from, and how is it distributed?
Launchpad (project launch platform) fees: 20% transaction fee commission, with Q3 revenues of $17M.
LP (liquidity provision) incentives: Projects pay with MET to stimulate liquidity.
Ecosystem partners: Fees from integrations like Jupiter. Distributed to holders: staking + fee dividends (lock MET to earn annualized returns + buyback deflation); 20% of revenue is used to buy back MET (executed $10M in 2025).
Future expansion capabilities:
In 2026, multi-chain + global layout? The expansion potential is explosive! By 2025, it has integrated with Jupiter and others, and plans to implement Meteora Invent Expansion in 2026 (scripted token launch, simplifying global project access). It supports multi-chain bridging (Solana expands to Ethereum L2, Base), and the Comet Points system incentivizes cross-ecosystem LP. Expansion in Asia/EU (collaboration with South Korean companies + EU RWA pilot), with TVL potentially exceeding $2B+, becoming the 'liquidity bridge' outside of Solana.
Application prospects:
Not just DeFi, but the prospects for real-world applications are super broad! Not just meme launches, but from 2025 to 2026, the focus is on RWA (real-world asset) tokenization (real estate/bonds on-chain liquidity), prediction markets (AI-driven event betting), and enterprise-level integration (banks/games using Meteora pools). AI-driven prediction markets + intelligent allocation of RWA (AI analyzing data to dynamically adjust liquidity, prevent manipulation + optimize returns), forecast pushing MET to $1-2+, becoming the Web3 'liquidity operating system'.
Core financing:
The ecosystem attracts funds through TGE (Token Generation Event) with an FDV of $1B (estimated valuation), actual financing over $10M (community + Solana fund). The partner round in 2025 exceeded $50M, and a $10M buyback was implemented to enhance confidence.
Risk points:
Low-key but has pitfalls: Solana dependency: Network congestion affects Meteora.
1. Competition: Raydium and Orca are competing for LP (liquidity provision) shares.
2. Unlocking price suppression: Team vesting (gradual unlocking) will start to release significantly in 2026.
3. Regulation: Launchpad (project launch platform) is easy to be monitored (meme speculation risk).
My personal view
MET is the dark horse of Solana DeFi in 2025, with a powerful combination of AI + Launchpad (project launch platform) and great potential for multi-chain/RWA expansion.
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