What is Neiro? (NEIRO)

Neiro (NEIRO) is an ERC-20 memecoin on Ethereum, contract 0x812ba41e071c7b7fa4ebcfb62df5f45f6fa853ee, named after the rescue Shiba Inu that Atsuko Sato, owner of the Doge dog Kabosu, adopted in July 2024. Binance listed it for spot trading on 16 September 2024 under the name First Neiro On Ethereum. The supply is fixed at 420.69 billion, with no transfer tax.

As of 15 September 2026 you can buy it as NEIRO on Binance, Kraken, OKX and Gate, and as NEIROCTO on Bybit, Bitget and MEXC. Coinbase has no spot market for it. If you withdraw, choose the Ethereum (ERC-20) network; the bridged Base, BNB Chain and HyperEVM versions have almost no liquidity.

On-chain, swap ETH for NEIRO on Uniswap, whose main pool held about $3.4 million, or through 1inch or SushiSwap, and paste the contract address yourself. A second Ethereum token also called Neiro, with the same NEIRO ticker (0xee2a03aa6dacf51c18679c516ad5283d8e7c2637), appears in search results. It is a different project with almost no liquidity.

NEIRO has no product and no revenue, and on 15 September 2026 it traded about 97% below its November 2024 high. Binance-labelled wallets hold about 55% of the supply. Buy only what you can afford to lose.

2024: Kabosu, the Shiba Inu from the Doge meme, dies on 24 May. On the last weekend of July, Atsuko Sato introduces Neiro, a ten-year-old rescue Shiba, on X, and hundreds of NEIRO tokens are launched within a day. This token's Uniswap V2 pool opens on 27 July 2024, and its all-time low of about $0.0000024 follows on 31 July. CoinDesk reported on 30 July that Sato endorsed no crypto project except Own The Doge's DOG and had warned followers about token scams. CoinGecko records that this token's developer rugged it, and a community takeover group picked it up.

September to November 2024: Binance Futures lists the rival Neiro contract as NEIROETH on 6 September. On 16 September Binance lists this token for spot trading as First Neiro On Ethereum, with a Seed Tag, alongside TURBO and 1MBABYDOGE, and opens a NEIRO perpetual the same day. The price rises about 700% on the day, taking the market cap from about $15 million to $146 million according to CoinDesk, and Decrypt put it at $352 million within 48 hours. Binance co-founder Yi He said many competing Neiro tokens had failed its compliance review over token concentration. The top came on 12 November 2024 at about $0.0030, roughly $1.27 billion at full supply.

December 2024 onwards: on 16 December 2024 Own The Doge announced that Sato had granted it rights to Neiro's likeness, with Sato keeping a veto. In January 2025 the DAO voted 92% for this token. In March 2025 Own The Doge launched COCORO on Base for Sato's newest dog, airdropping 20% of it to DOG and NEIRO holders; Decrypt reported that NEIRO fell about 14% that day and that the Neiro licence agreement was not yet final. The Neiro team announced an exclusive licence in an April 2025 press release, without terms. Binance Futures settled and removed the rival NEIROETH contract on 26 September 2025. By 15 September 2026 NEIRO is about 97% below its high.

NEIRO trades on the Doge lineage. The project presents Neiro as the sister of DOGE, the successor to Kabosu, and the community runs the token as volunteers after a takeover rather than as a founding team, a common path for memecoins whose deployer walked away early. Its channels are the X account @neiro, the Telegram group ethneirocto and the site neiroeth.io.

The licence gives this community something most memecoins lack: a documented link to the dog's owner through Own The Doge, chosen in a DAO vote. The Neiro team says its community has donated about $300,000 to animal-rescue charities; that figure comes from its own press release and has not been independently audited. The terms of the licence have not been published, and Sato has never presented NEIRO as an investment.

NEIRO is an ERC-20 token, so any Ethereum wallet holds it: MetaMask, Rabby, Trust Wallet or Coinbase Wallet. For larger positions, pair the wallet with a Ledger or Trezor. If the balance does not appear, import the token with 0x812ba41e071c7b7fa4ebcfb62df5f45f6fa853ee. Importing the other Neiro contract by mistake shows a zero balance and can make holders think their tokens are gone.

Deposit NEIRO to an exchange on the Ethereum network only, unless the exchange explicitly supports the Base or BNB Chain version. A bridged token sent to an address that only credits the Ethereum version may take a support ticket to recover, or may not be recoverable at all.

The market figures below were measured on 15 September 2026. Check them again before you buy.

The case for NEIRO is lineage and access. It is tied to the owner of the Doge dog through a licence chosen by the DAO that holds the rights to the original Doge image, it has a Binance spot listing and a deep Uniswap pool, and its supply is fixed and fully circulating with no tax. If attention returns to dog memecoins, it is one of the few with a documented connection to the Doge story.

The case against it is that none of this has held the price. NEIRO is about 97% below its high, its liquidity leans heavily on Binance, its name is shared with a second token that confuses buyers, and Own The Doge has since backed another dog token. Whether the licence turns into anything that matters for holders is not established, and nothing on this page predicts the direction.