Since January 2024, with the strong rise of SOL, a series of meme coins with cats as the theme have emerged on the Solana chain, including high-quality assets that have achieved a hundredfold increase in 2024. Among them, POPCAT, as a representative, once approached the $2 billion market value mark in 2024, marking a shift in the preference for animal-themed meme coins since 2021.
POPCAT is an Internet meme that originated in October 2020. A YouTuber showcased two pictures of a domestic shorthair cat named ‘Oatmeal’ in a series of videos, one with its mouth closed and the other with its mouth open in an ‘O’ shape. As the most valuable cat-themed meme coin, POPCAT has won the hearts of countless netizens with its popular mischievous cat expressions, naughty appearance, and huge mouth. It represents viral Internet culture and is a perfect blend with the thriving crypto world.
According to the market data from Gate.io, the popular cat meme coin POPCAT is currently priced at $0.3275, with a 24-hour increase of 25.93%. POPCAT’s current market cap is $321 million, ranking 160th in the overall market. POPCAT reached a historical high of $1.92 billion in November 2024, and has since dropped by over 80% from that peak.
In the last cryptocurrency bull market, meme coins such as DOGE and SHIB, with characteristics of entertainment, storytelling, and low market value, shone brightly under the promotion of celebrities like Musk, becoming the focus of the market. As a newly popular animal meme coin, cat-themed meme coins, despite their small current market value, showed huge growth potential in the ‘Battle of Cats and Dogs’ in March 2024, especially when compared to dog-themed meme coins, they demonstrate explosive potential.
With the continuous heat-up of various meme projects on different chains, the meme track has shifted from a brief craze to a long-term trend. The meme sector has become the best-performing sector in this round of bull market, and the speculative themes have gradually transitioned from dogs and frogs to the current hot cats.
Meme is never a solitary enjoyment, but a carnival of a group. Under consensus, POPCAT is leading a new trend in the meme sector with its unique creative origin, profound cultural core, innovative tokenized design, and strong community building capabilities.