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Catecoin

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Catecoin
Catecoin
Image: token logo via CoinGecko / DexScreener listings
ticker$CATE
blockchainSolana
launchedJuly 26, 2026 (pump.fun)
peak market capabout $70 million FDV (early August 2026)

Catecoin ($CATE) is a Solana cat cult memecoin launched on pump.fun in July 2026 that reached about a $70 million valuation after a community takeover led by the trader PoorGoat.

Contents
  1. 1 Origin
  2. 2 An unrelated earlier Catecoin
  3. 3 Community takeover
  4. 4 Market history
  5. 5 Cultural impact
  6. 6 References

Catecoin ($CATE) is a cat themed memecoin on Solana that became one of the most discussed tickers in the trenches during late July and August 2026. It is the defining example of the season's cult coin wave and of an accidental CTO that worked. The ticker is a coincidental match for an unrelated, older BNB Chain project of the same name; see below.

Origin

$CATE launched on pump.fun on July 26, 2026, pitched as the cat sister of Dogecoin. Its lore drew on an Instagram post from Kabosu Mama, owner of the original Doge dog, who publicly denied any involvement with the token, according to Bubblemaps. The coin had no team supply control and no creator fees, and its earliest leadership dissolved within days, leaving rival factions fighting over the narrative.

An unrelated earlier Catecoin

A separate, unconnected project also called CateCoin launched on BNB Chain around September 2021, pitched as a deflationary meme coin with a built in NFT meme marketplace where creators could earn from posted content, taxing 2 percent of every transaction to holders and offering 15 percent staking rewards. CoinGecko's page for that project puts its all time high at about 0.00001176 dollars on November 9, 2021. It shares nothing with the 2026 Solana coin below beyond the name and cat branding, and the two should not be conflated.

Community takeover

The trader posting as @PoorGoat_, who had built a following trading the run of $ANSEM (the coin tied to the Black Bull), described buying $CATE at about a $150,000 market cap because it was funny, without reading the lore. After what he called three separate PVP situations broke out, he took the coin over himself. In a widely shared clip he framed the takeover as accidental, describing it around July 28, 2026 as a near impossible task after what he called just a good trade turned him into an unplanned community leader; he has said he holds no supply control and the coin carries no transaction fees. Under his stewardship $CATE was verified in Phantom, topped Solana trending lists, and reached about a $70 million fully diluted valuation with roughly 75,000 holder wallets, per Bubblemaps. He also reported crossing 10,000 $CATE holders on the fomo trading app, and tracker accounts such as Pump.fun Ecosystem reported $CATE as the most traded pump.fun coin on its biggest days, with about 114 million dollars in daily volume.

In August 2026 PoorGoat said he was exploring ways to integrate $CATE with $ANSEM despite holding no supply control. In the same post he recounted receiving about 30,000 dollars worth of $ANSEM as an airdrop for running the original Ansem coin, holding it from about 1.7 million dollars back down to about 600,000 without selling, and returning the favor by airdropping 30,000 dollars worth of $CATE to Ansem.

By PoorGoat's own, self reported account, on August 3, 2026, two weeks after launch, the token had done about 135 million dollars in volume from about 87,000 traders and set a new all time high market cap of about 88 million dollars that same day. A market tracker account named PoorGoat as one of only four people active on the Fomo and pump.fun apps who had pumped supported coins to the millions, calling that small group the movers. His repeated catchphrase through the run, posted at least four separate times across the following week: "balls on the table, billion, dollar, cate." One trader publicly described entering at an 82 million dollar market cap and asked followers to "please pray for me," a snapshot of the risk appetite near the token's peak.

Market history

The run was volatile. Bubblemaps found that 25 wallets held about 19 percent of supply, and that on one day 29 wallets sold about 660,000 dollars within the same minute, dropping the price about 70 percent in a single candle. The firm published the full wallet list. That same day, August 3, 2026, the token also collapsed by a separate account: one trader reported it fell 95 percent in one candle while the Fomo app's trading interface stopped working during the sell off, though the separate pump.fun app kept functioning; PoorGoat framed the outage as a coordinated attack, posting "we are under attack, X got suspended, Fomo down and people attacking the chart." The two accounts of the drop's severity, 70 percent per Bubblemaps' onchain analysis and 95 percent per trader reports, are reported here as variant figures rather than resolved to one number. By August 4, 2026 a separate account said PoorGoat had been fully vindicated after a community investigation into what it called coordinated hate and false narratives pushed against the coin and its promoter; the underlying claims on both sides remain unverified beyond these posts. Skeptics were vocal throughout the run; one trader wrote catecoin "might be the biggest industry plant I have ever seen," an allegation of manufactured rather than organic hype, also unadjudicated.

As of August 18, 2026, $CATE traded around a $10.6 million market cap with about $1.4 million in daily volume per DexScreener, well off its highs but still among the most active pump.fun graduates. The story is ongoing.

Cultural impact

$CATE anchored the "cults over cabals" mood of August 2026 crypto Twitter, cited in taxonomy posts as the era's cat cult. Its takeover story, holder growth on fomo, and the PoorGoat and Ansem gift exchange made it a case study in narrative stewardship without supply control.

References

See also
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Last updated 2026-08-19