According to @0xRyze, new crypto “games” and metas drive status and capital rotation, with perps as the leading financial innovation and DeFi’s prior pool2 phase as a precedent, so traders should proactively watch for the next meta and its early distribution channels such as TikTok and offline fads like pickleball (source: @0xRyze on X, Aug 16, 2025). This view aligns with market structure data showing derivatives consistently dominate exchange activity, making perp-specific metrics critical for timing rotations (source: CCData 2024 derivatives market reviews). Actionable signals include: funding rate inflections that flag one‑sided positioning and potential reversals (source: Binance Academy, Funding Rate explainer); open interest momentum and OI relative to market cap to confirm trend strength and leverage build‑up (source: CME Group education, Futures and OI basics; Binance Academy, Open Interest); rising perp versus spot volume share and basis as leverage intensifies into a new narrative (source: CCData 2024 derivatives share analyses); DeFi TVL spikes and incentive/emission schedules that typically accompany new protocol “games,” echoing the pool2 era (source: DefiLlama aggregated TVL data); social momentum and creator adoption velocity on platforms like TikTok as early distribution vectors for emerging metas (source: @0xRyze on X, Aug 16, 2025).