Paloma is giving away free HCTI memestock on Base today.

Paloma, a cross-chain messaging and automation protocol, is promoting a new Base-based memecoin tied to the U.S. meme-stock Healthcare Triangle (HCTI) by organizing a free token distribution to its community. According to Paloma’s X announcement, the project is giving away HCTI memestock tokens on Base for a limited time, framed as a community event for “Pigeons” (Paloma users) rather than a paid sale. The campaign appears to piggyback on the notoriety of Healthcare Triangle Inc. (HCTI), a small-cap healthcare IT company whose stock briefly became a meme stock after a July 2025 trading frenzy in which it accounted for roughly 15% of total U.S. equity trading volume in a single day, with about US$150 million in turnover at a price around US$0.05. By launching an “HCTI memestock” token on Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 network, Paloma’s validators and community are attempting to turn that meme-stock narrative into an on-chain asset and use the giveaway as a way to drive engagement with Paloma tooling and with Base’s retail trader ecosystem. For crypto/web3 readers, the key context is that this is part of the broader trend of tokenized “memestocks” and real-world equity narratives being recreated as speculative tokens on Ethereum L2s, where low fees make airdrops and small memecoin trades economical. It underscores how retail-driven manias in traditional markets—like the 2025 HCTI spike—are being repackaged into on-chain instruments for trading and experimentation, but without any implied linkage to the underlying company or its actual equity.

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