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TL;DR Summary
- SPL token on Solana launched December 2023, based on the 2020 Popcat meme (a cat named Oatmeal opening and closing its mouth with a "pop" sound)
- The underlying meme predates the coin by three years. Popcat.click (2020) was a country-vs-country clicking game that racked up billions of clicks, especially in Taiwan, Thailand, and Estonia
- Fixed supply of roughly 979.9 million POPCAT. Fair launch, no presale, no team allocation
- Hit an all-time high near $2.00 in August 2024, briefly pushing its market cap into the low single-digit billions
- Listed on Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Bybit, and KuCoin. Primary on-chain liquidity lives on Raydium and Jupiter
- Held a top-five Solana memecoin slot through the 2024 cycle alongside BONK, WIF, MEW, and fartcoin
What is Popcat?
Popcat (POPCAT) Tokenomics
The History of Popcat
The Popcat meme started in 2020 with a short clip of a cat named Oatmeal appearing to say "pop." The image pair (mouth closed, mouth open) turned into a reaction format within weeks. Popcat.click, the companion browser game, layered on a country leaderboard where every click contributed to your nation's total. Taiwan, Thailand, and Estonia dominated. The game racked up billions of clicks through 2020 and 2021.
POPCAT the token launched as an SPL token on Solana in December 2023, roughly three years after the meme peaked. Fair launch: no presale, no team cliff, fixed supply. For most of early 2024 it traded as a mid-cap Solana memecoin with a strong Asian community. The real move came in the summer: POPCAT ran into the Solana memecoin rotation alongside WIF and BONK, printed an all-time high near $2.00 in August 2024, and secured Binance and Coinbase listings shortly after.
It has since traded in line with the Solana memecoin basket: up hard when Solana retail rotation picks up, down hard when attention moves to Base, Hyperliquid, or the next wave of Pump.fun launches. // FACTCHECK: exact ATH figure and date should be confirmed against CoinGecko/CMC historical data.
Popcat Community & Culture
The Popcat community lives on X and in a handful of Telegram groups, with a noticeably heavier Asian presence than most Solana memecoins. That's a direct inheritance from the Popcat.click era, when Taiwan, Thailand, and Estonia ran the leaderboard. Posting is heavy on the cat GIF, the "pop" refrain, and flag banter that reads like a Eurovision thread crossed with a cat subreddit.
The bit is simpler than BONK's or PEPE's. There is no manifesto, no ecosystem, no product. POPCAT holders are long a cat making a sound. The community treats that as a feature rather than a bug: the token doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't, and the meme has been in global circulation long enough that attention tends to come back during Solana memecoin rotations rather than having to be manufactured.
Market Performance of Popcat (POPCAT)
How to Buy POPCAT
CEX route: Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Bybit, and KuCoin all list POPCAT. Open an account, clear KYC, fund it with fiat or stablecoins, and buy on the POPCAT/USDT or POPCAT/USD pair. DEX route: install Phantom or Solflare, fund it with SOL from a CEX withdrawal, and swap on Jupiter or Raydium. Fees are fractions of a cent but you need a small SOL balance to pay them. Check Jupiter's price-impact number before signing large orders; thin pools eat size fast.
USD to POPCAT Calculator
How to Store POPCAT
POPCAT is an SPL token, so you need a Solana wallet. Phantom is the default; Solflare and Backpack work too. For anything you do not want to lose to a phishing DM, pair the wallet with a Ledger. Solana wallets support transaction simulation before signing, which is the single best habit for avoiding drainer contracts.
Risks & Considerations
- Typical memecoin volatility. 50%+ drawdowns are routine
- No revenue, no fee burn, no utility. Price is pure sentiment plus Solana beta
- Correlated with SOL and with the rest of the Solana memecoin basket. A SOL-wide shock hits POPCAT harder
- Heavy cat-coin competition on Solana: MEW, MOG, and the next Pump.fun launch all compete for the same attention
- Solana network outages during volatility spikes are the worst-case scenario for a volatile SPL token
- No affiliation with the original Popcat.click creators or with Oatmeal the cat's owner. "Endorsement" language in marketing has not been validated
How does Popcat compare to other meme coins?
| Coin | Price | Market Cap | Supply | Key Features |
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Future of Popcat
POPCAT's bull case is brand recognition. The underlying meme has been in global circulation for five years, the token has Tier 1 CEX distribution, and it occupies a slot (the cat on Solana) that is hard to dislodge once filled. If Solana keeps eating retail memecoin rotation, POPCAT is one of the default destinations.
The bear case is that POPCAT has no product. BONK has BonkBot and letsBONK.fun. SHIB has Shibarium. POPCAT has a PNG of a cat. That's fine when memecoin sentiment is hot and brutal when it rotates. The next 12 to 24 months are mostly about whether cat coins keep their slice of Solana rotation or whether a newer meme takes the oxygen. There is no floor underneath a pure meme token beyond the liquidity of the market itself.