thematically it is intuitive that "information markets" created by verifiable scarcity can help us identify signal within an expanding sea of noise and slop.

a question would be the relationship between virality and signal. 

for example, the "ice cream so good" girl was viral once upon a time, and her livestream coin would reach a super high market cap, but imo not super valuable content or high signal.

Yeah great question. 

I think this is where short term voting machine (attention market) vs long term weighing machine (information market) plays out. 

Age of the thing becomes a useful signal and filter.