Company
Meridian is where income becomes ownership.
Since the first stock exchange, being paid in ownership was for employees of public companies with brokerage accounts. Now a stock is a token that can be paid, ruled, given, vested, matched and remembered like money, and even price a launch whose fees go to savers.
The name
A scrip is a certificate entitling its holder to shares, and “paid in scrip” is the old phrase for being paid in something other than cash. There is no better word for a company where income becomes stock certificates.
The eight firstseach one on Solana
A stock can be paid. Shown by Pay in stock; the rule.
A stock can obey a rule on an address. Shown by The rule.
A stock can remember why it arrived. Shown by The receipt with a reason.
A stock can vest from anyone to anyone. Shown by Grants.
A stock can arrive before the opening bell. Shown by The clock on the floor.
A stock can be given, and claimed into any wallet. Shown by Claim links.
A stock can prove it was kept. Shown by Keep-rate on chain.
A stock can price a launch whose fees pay savers. Shown by Meridian Curve.
What it is not
Not a trading terminal, a robo-advisor, a lender, a card, a social feed, or a brokerage. It gives no advice. It never decides amounts: the rate is the owner’s, the price is Jupiter’s route bounded by Pyth, the timing is arrival. Meridian Curve launches tokens, and there too Meridian decides nothing about a price; it only says where the fees go.
Who builds this
Shariq. The founder’s own rule runs on the wallet he is paid to, and Meridian pays its own bounties in stock through @scrip. Every payment Meridian makes is on that page, labelled as Meridian’s.
Where it goes
Rules on income. A stock slice is the first rule; the same standing instruction later routes a slice into a mix, a reserve or a set-aside, for a person, a grant program or an agent’s treasury. Each step is the rule with one more destination, never a new product. Beyond income, any money already moving on Solana can become somebody’s savings: Plans match what people save, and Meridian Curve sends a share of every launch’s trading fees into those Plans.