cat in a dogs world
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| ticker | MEW |
|---|---|
| blockchain | Solana |
| launched | March 2024 |
| peak market cap | about 1 billion dollars (late 2024) |
cat in a dogs world is a Solana cat meme coin launched in March 2024 that positioned itself against dog coin dominance and briefly exceeded a one billion dollar market capitalization.
cat in a dogs world (MEW) is a meme coin on the Solana blockchain launched on March 25, 2024. Its premise, stated in the name, was that cats deserved a champion in a meme market ruled by dog coins such as BONK and dogwifhat.
Origin
MEW launched at the height of the March 2024 Solana meme frenzy, days after book of meme and SLERF. The anonymous team minted a supply of 88.8 billion tokens, airdropped 10 percent to the Solana community, and burned the liquidity for the remainder, a structure marketed as rug proof. The cartoon cat mascot and the "dogs have had their day" framing gave the coin an instantly legible identity, and it cleared 150 million dollars in traded value within hours of launch.
Market history
MEW held a market capitalization in the hundreds of millions through most of 2024, then broke out in the fourth quarter cat rotation alongside POPCAT. Its market capitalization surpassed one billion dollars in late 2024, with price trackers placing the all time high (roughly 0.012 dollars) between late October and early December 2024 depending on the venue. It secured listings on major centralized exchanges, unusual for a coin of its vintage. Through 2025 and into 2026 it declined with the wider meme complex and trades at a small fraction of its peak.
Cultural impact
MEW is the standard bearer of the 2024 "cat season" narrative in the trenches, proof that the counterprogramming trade (betting against the dominant animal meta) could reach unicorn scale. Its launch mechanics, an airdrop plus burned liquidity rather than a presale, were widely praised in the wake of the SLERF presale disaster the same week, and the contrast became a recurring talking point about how meme coins should distribute supply. The name itself entered trench vocabulary as shorthand for any underdog asset fighting an entrenched meta.