The ratio that settles this sits inside the corner itself. A memecoin pool holding 53% of every tokenized HIMS share in existence held about 0.014% of the company's actual shares [5], which puts the entire tokenized float at roughly 0.026% of the equity [1], so a flawless corner of every last token would leave 99.97% of HIMS trading as though nothing had happened [5].
Scale is the boring objection; the mint is the mechanical one. Liquidity pools are one in, one out, so buying the paired memecoin parks the stock-token side and starves its float [4], but Robinhood's tokens are 1:1 claims against shares sitting in custody, price exposure rather than ownership [6], and a premium in the wrapper is an invitation to the authorized participant to create more wrapper [7]. Those new tokens do need shares behind them, which is the single genuine bridge to the equity and a narrow one [8]. Roughly 4,000 HIMS tokens were issued when markets reopened and the gap closed [9]; 4,000 shares at Friday's $28.84 close is about $115,000 of real buying [2], nowhere near enough to force anyone's short book to cover.
So the capital that went in hunting shorts bought price exposure from a structure whose reflex, faced with a premium, is to sell more price exposure [7], and whoever paid $132.64 for a claim on a $28.84 share [2] paid earlier holders and the arbitrageur. The name on the other side was the issuer itself, not a short seller.
Or rather, the more interesting version of the question is what a wrapper would need before the squeeze arithmetic works at all, and Bankless points at Galaxy, which worked with Superstate to put GLXY onchain in a form where the token is the share [10]: actual Class A common stock, the same legal, economic and voting rights, and a transfer that rewrites Galaxy's ownership records [11]. That is a design in which an onchain bid is a bid for the equity. Galaxy confines those tokens to approved wallets and has not enabled permissionless AMM trading [12], so the one structure capable of transmitting onchain pressure is the one nobody can pile into.
This is where I would rather name the ways it reads differently than defend the conclusion. If the authorized participant is capacity-constrained over a weekend, premiums last longer than HIMS's did, but they last in the wrapper. If tokenized supply in some thin-float name grows from 0.026% [1] into a share count that matters, sustained issuance becomes sustained share buying, and the bid arrives through the AP's brokerage rather than through anyone's pool. And if a Galaxy-style share token ever trades permissionlessly, the thesis stops being a category error, which is roughly what Bankless concedes in saying the squeeze needs much stronger bridges back to the actual equity [13].
What survives is smaller and probably more durable: Eric Conner's argument, cited by Bankless, that a paired memecoin is a decentralised marketing machine whose holders start tracking earnings, products and short interest [14]. It is a claim that asks almost nothing of the evidence, which is exactly why it holds up.
