What is Toshi? (TOSHI)

Toshi (TOSHI) is an ERC-20 token on Base, the Ethereum layer 2 built by Coinbase. It is named after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong's cat, whose own name comes from Satoshi Nakamoto. It has traded since August 2023, and the current contract has been in place since a migration on 9 October 2023. Supply is fixed at 420.69 billion, all of it circulating.

US buyers have a direct route: Coinbase has listed TOSHI since January 2025, and Kraken and Binance.US carry it too. Outside the US, KuCoin, Bybit, Gate, Bitget, MEXC, WEEX, LBank and KCEX list it; Binance's main spot exchange does not. If you withdraw, choose the Base network. TOSHI also exists as a bridged token on BNB Chain, and sending one version to an address on the other network is an easy way to lose tokens.

On-chain, most liquidity sits on Base DEXs: about $1.07 million in one Uniswap TOSHI/WETH pool on 15 September 2026, with more on Aerodrome. Fund a wallet such as MetaMask, Rabby or Coinbase's Base App with ETH on Base, then swap on Uniswap or through an aggregator such as 1inch. Paste the contract 0xAC1Bd2486aAf3B5C0fc3Fd868558b082a531B2B4 yourself and check it on Basescan rather than picking TOSHI from a search list.

As of 15 September 2026 TOSHI had a market capitalization near $46.5 million and traded about 95% below its $0.00226 high of 26 January 2025. The contract charges no buy or sell tax and has no owner. It is still a memecoin with no cash flows; size any position so that losing all of it changes nothing for you.

TOSHI first traded on Base in early August 2023, while the network was still opening up. According to the project's own documentation, it launched on SushiSwap's V3 pools because an exploit at Leet DEX had left Sushi V3 as the only venue the team trusted, and V3 pools could not collect the trading tax the contract was written for. CoinDesk reported on 4 August 2023 that about $10 million of TOSHI had traded on SushiSwap in 24 hours.

On 9 October 2023 the team migrated to a new contract, 0xAC1Bd2486aAf3B5C0fc3Fd868558b082a531B2B4, and relaunched on SushiSwap V2 with a 3% tax on buys and sells, distributing the new token to existing holders and exchanges. The tax paid for exchange listings, marketing, a treasury and team costs, with exchanges and market makers whitelisted. A later MeowDAO vote removed the tax entirely, and liquidity moved to Uniswap V3. On 15 September 2026 both tax settings in the contract read zero and the owner is the zero address.

Coinbase added TOSHI to its listing roadmap on 14 January 2025; The Block reported a 133% jump in 24 hours and a market capitalization near $130 million. Coinbase opened trading on Base from 23 January, and the price set its all-time high of $0.00226 on 26 January 2025. On 1 August 2025 the project announced a Binance Alpha listing and an optional bridge to BNB Chain via Hyperlane, with a BNB Chain contract at 0x6a2608Dabe09bc1128EEC7275B92DFB939D5Db3f. Since the January 2025 peak TOSHI has fallen with the rest of the memecoin market, and it was down about 81% over the year to 15 September 2026.

Toshi presents itself as 'the face of Base', the phrase the project uses on its site and in its documentation. The official site, toshithecat.com, links to NFToshis, merchandise, an art section, MeowDAO and Toshi Mart, which gives the community more to do than trade the token: holders vote in MeowDAO, launch tokens through Toshi Mart and collect the cat artwork.

The Armstrong connection is part of the appeal and also the most common misunderstanding. Toshi is Armstrong's pet's name; the token is a community project. Beyond the channels and products listed above, this page does not characterize the community: holder counts and engagement figures quoted in the channels are not independently verified.

TOSHI is a standard ERC-20 on Base, so any EVM wallet that supports Base holds it: MetaMask, Rabby, Rainbow or Coinbase's Base App. Add the Base network if your wallet does not show it, then import the token by its contract, 0xAC1Bd2486aAf3B5C0fc3Fd868558b082a531B2B4. For larger holdings, pair a Ledger or Trezor with MetaMask or Rabby so the signing key stays on the device.

Keep the network straight. The same wallet address works on Base and on BNB Chain, but Base TOSHI and bridged BNB Chain TOSHI are different contracts, and a wallet set to the wrong network will show a zero balance. Moving between them means using the Hyperlane bridge the project announced in August 2025, not a plain transfer.

The figures below were measured on 15 September 2026 unless another date is given. They are snapshots, not guarantees; check them again before you buy.

TOSHI's case is position. It is the Base mascot token with the cleanest route into mainstream venues: a Coinbase listing, Kraken and Binance.US in the US, and deep Uniswap and Aerodrome liquidity on-chain. Its contract has no tax and no owner. If Base keeps growing and Coinbase keeps steering users to it, TOSHI is one of the memecoins those users are most likely to see.

The case against is that the listing has already happened and the market has already reacted. The token peaked three days after Coinbase trading opened and has since lost about 95%. It has no revenue, its largest wallet holds about 15% of the supply, and a Base network token would compete for the 'official asset of Base' role the mascot fills now. Nothing on this page predicts the price. It describes a widely held, widely listed memecoin that still depends entirely on attention.