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Pajamas Cat is a cat themed [[meme coin]] on [[Solana]] branded as The First Youtube Cat. It commemorates a genuine piece of internet history: the video "Pajamas and Nick Drake," a clip of a cat named Pajamas playing with a rope set to Nick Drake's music, uploaded by YouTube co founder Steve Chen on May 22, 2005, and generally regarded as the first cat video on the platform.

## Origin

The token launched on Solana in early 2024, during the cat coin wave that followed [[popcat]] and [[cat in a dogs world]], with a fair launch supply near one billion. Its pitch was lineage rather than novelty: if internet culture began with a cat video, the first YouTube cat deserved a coin. In trader retellings PAJAMAS is closely associated with the earliest weeks of [[pump.fun]], and community lore describes it as among the first tokens ever to complete the platform's bonding curve and graduate to [[Raydium]]. That first [[graduation]] claim circulates widely in [[the trenches]] but is not corroborated by major market data sites, whose listings tie the token's first branding only to the YouTube video; the claim should be treated as folklore rather than established record.

## Market history

PAJAMAS traded on Raydium after leaving its launch venue and peaked in the spring 2024 meme rotation. CoinGecko records the all time high at about 0.0351 dollars on May 30, 2024, an implied market value around 34 million dollars against the roughly 980 million circulating supply; CoinPaprika records a slightly higher peak of about 0.0397 dollars on April 27, 2024. The token was never listed on major centralized exchanges and declined more than 99 percent from its high through 2025, trading by 2026 at a market capitalization in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars with minimal daily volume.

## Cultural impact

Pajamas Cat matters more as legend than as chart. As one of the recognizable names from pump.fun's opening months, it appears in histories of the platform's rise, and its contested first graduate status makes it a standing example of how quickly trench history blurs: barely two years after launch, the community could no longer prove which coin crossed the curve first. The token also extended the cat meta's habit of financializing real feline history, a lineage that runs from Pajamas the 2005 YouTube cat through the meme cats of 2024.

## References

- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pajamas-cat
- https://coinpaprika.com/coin/pajamas-pajamas-cat/
- https://www.geckoterminal.com/solana/pools/BqricZnjjtFg8wuTbckV6NZcTstuR7BZtKJtzH8oV3eK
- https://www.binance.com/en/how-to-buy/the-first-youtube-cat
- https://www.livecoinwatch.com/price/TheFirstYoutubeCat-PAJAMAS

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