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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 $91.35 million FDV (August 23, 2026, price times circulating supply per GeckoTerminal and DexScreener)

Catecoin ($CATE) is a Solana cat cult memecoin launched on pump.fun in July 2026 that reached about a $91 million valuation in an August 23, 2026 run, then crashed about 60 percent within the hour, 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 The August 23 run and selloff
  6. 6 Cultural impact
  7. 7 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, within hours of a cat post from Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu, the Shiba Inu whose photo became the doge meme. Same day timing is well corroborated: BluntCap wrote that Sato "posted an Instagram video featuring a newly rescued kitten, and shortly after we have $Catecoin with 19m in volume." Sato herself confirms the post happened, in her own later denial: "Right after I posted about a cat on Instagram, that post was used without my permission, and fake tokens were created." According to archoodz, an account that was itself promoting an unrelated Robinhood Chain CATE copycat token and is cited here only for this detail, the post used Instagram's Stories format, the platform's ephemeral, twenty four hour posts; Sato's own denial does not specify the format. The pitch that spread, per cookie3's account of the mechanism, was that "Doge had a dog, Cate has a cat," explicitly crypto Twitter's own wordplay and not Sato's, recycling a joke that traces back to around 2013's Kittehcoin discussions and the unrelated, older Catecoin covered below.

According to a single account's unverified paraphrase of Sato's own account (aixbt_agent, named here because no primary source, screenshot, or second corroborating account could be located), the animal was a roughly three week old orange kitten, fostered for two days with a permanent family found on the fourth day. This foster and rehome timeline is reported as one account's paraphrase, not Sato's own confirmed statement, since the original Instagram post is no longer recoverable.

"Cate" was never Sato's name for any animal; it was invented by the coin's own community to fit the ticker. Her own X bio names exactly three cats, Tsutsuji, Ginnan and Onigiri, and no "Cate." At least two accounts admitted the name was invented, in real time, on July 27, 2026, one of them writing plainly, "we know she is not named cate." The kitten's actual name was never publicly confirmed by Sato. A rival token, $RIKA, has marketed the unverified claim that the kitten's real name is "Rika chan," sourced only to a magazine profile that could not be independently confirmed; the name does not appear anywhere in Sato's own posts.

Sato addressed the coin directly, from her own account, on July 28, 2026, 11:33 UTC:

"先日、一連の $CATE トークンが、あたかも私と関係があるかのように広まりましたが、私はこれらのトークンとは一切関係ありません。Instagramで猫について投稿した直後、その投稿が無断で利用され、偽のトークンが作られてしまいました。私の写真や発信を、このような形で悪用した人たちがいることを、とても残念に思っています。中にはXで大きな影響力を持つアカウントも含まれていました。私の知的財産権に関して、私が正式に関わっているプロジェクトは @OwnTheDoge だけです。Own The Doge は2021年に Doge NFT を取得し、$DOG トークンを立ち上げました。また、Doge Day の開催や慈善活動への支援、そして私の知的財産権の管理も行っています。さらに2025年には、彼らと協力して @Base ネットワーク上で $COCORO を立ち上げました。このプロジェクトを通じて得られる収益は、私の大切な家族である動物たちの暮らしを支え、@withkabosu を通じた動物保護活動にも役立てられています。どうか、私に関する情報は公式な発表をご確認いただき、私とは関係のないプロジェクトやトークンには十分ご注意ください。"

(translation: "Recently, a series of $CATE tokens have spread as if they were connected to me, but I have absolutely no relationship with these tokens. Right after I posted about a cat on Instagram, that post was used without my permission, and fake tokens were created. I feel very sad that there are people who have misused my photos and posts in this way. Among them were accounts with significant influence on X. Regarding my intellectual property rights, the only project I am officially involved with is @OwnTheDoge. Own The Doge acquired the Doge NFT in 2021 and launched the $DOG token. They also hold Doge Day events, support charitable activities, and manage my intellectual property rights. Furthermore, in 2025, working together with them, we launched $COCORO on the @Base network. The revenue earned through this project supports the lives of my precious family, the animals, and is also used for animal protection activities through @withkabosu. Please check official announcements for information about me, and please be very careful of projects or tokens that have no connection to me.")

The denial is blanket. It rejects every $CATE token generically, PoorGoat's contract, the Chibawan linked contract below, and any other, rather than singling out one, and it names only Own The Doge's $DOG token and $COCORO on Base, launched with Own The Doge in 2025, as her officially authorized projects. As of August 21, 2026, the post had drawn 475 likes, 104 retweets and 149,955 views. Independent corroboration came a day earlier from Smoke, CEO of Own The Doge and Cocoro, who replied "This is false" on July 27, 2026 to a post claiming Sato "now has a cat called Cate," and who publicly thanked her the day of her denial: "We love you Atsuko, It's an honor to work together with you over the years. Your daily acts of kindness and relentless animal rescue inspires us all."

A firewall, since the two are sometimes conflated: a separate and unrelated incident, twenty one months earlier in October 2024, saw Sato's Instagram account actually hacked despite two factor authentication, with the hacker posting a photo of a different cat, called "Kai," to promote an unrelated pump.fun token, $KAI, which then collapsed about 95 percent; Sato disclosed the breach herself and warned followers not to click any links. Different ticker, different cat, an actual account compromise rather than a permission dispute, and it predates Kabosu's own death; it is not part of the Cate story.

A second, separate legitimacy fight layered on top of Sato's blanket denial: Chibawan, a Chiba area animal rescue nonprofit, publicly thanked a different CATE contract (6YCYaiuXQubALutWr1eJB8HZ9i72hpTKgAvjR6qzpump, tagged @catecoin_solana, not the coin this article otherwise tracks) for a 223 SOL donation on July 29, 2026. A recurring promoter, HexicanHeartel, ran a campaign from at least August 4 through August 14, 2026 accusing PoorGoat's contract of fraud while promoting the Chibawan linked contract as the "real" Cate. This is a fight between rival contracts over a real charity donation, not evidence that Sato endorses anything; her July 28 denial applies to all of them equally, including the Chibawan linked one.

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, a fight that continues in the Chibawan episode above.

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. A further swarm of at least fourteen additional Robinhood Chain contracts and two Ethereum contracts also trade under the Catecoin or CATE name, each under roughly $50,000 market cap; none of them are connected to the Solana original covered in this article.

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 suspended account was the project's own @CateonSol_, restored on August 5, 2026 with the post "We're back. Nothing can stop the movement we're building. Follow along for everything CATE. CATEs have 9 lives," and it has remained active since, including through the rally documented below. 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.

The rally continued past that snapshot. By August 20, 2026, DexScreener showed the main Solana pumpswap pair trading around a $23.2 million market cap, up roughly 61 to 69 percent in 24 hours, more than double the August 18 figure, with gains accelerating through the day. The wave traced to a reply, not a listing: the official @Pumpfun account posted a satirical line about frothy market conditions generally, that the market was trading "like God himself just claimed fees and endorsed a 98% supply controlled duval CTO after back to back binance robinhood listings and trending on the Pumpfun app," naming no coin, and PoorGoat replied underneath it, "Or they just realized cate is going to flip doge," continuing an ambition he had voiced before ("no one can convince me we can't flip DOGE... TRILLION. DOLLAR. CATE," posted August 8, 2026). No Binance listing or Robinhood brokerage listing of cate has been confirmed anywhere; the "binance robinhood listings" phrase belongs to the official post's broader market hyperbole, not a claim about cate specifically, and PoorGoat's "flip doge" line remains his own attributed opinion, not a market fact.

The rally accelerated further into the following days. As of August 21, 2026, DexScreener showed the same Solana pumpswap pair trading around a $56.5 million fully diluted valuation, up about 124 percent in 24 hours, more than double the August 20 figure.

The August 23 run and selloff

The rally culminated in a new all time high on August 23, 2026, followed within about an hour by the fastest crash in the token's history. GeckoTerminal's hourly candle for the canonical pumpswap pair, stamped 01:00 to 02:00 UTC, recorded a high of $0.09474763691446626. At 964,165,580.602306 CATE, the circulating supply both DexScreener and GeckoTerminal use for the pair and which held steady through the entire run, that prices to a computed fully diluted valuation of about $91.35 million, a figure reached by multiplying price by supply rather than read off a single platform display. Solscan, an independent explorer, was inaccessible to automated checks for this update, so the token's full lifetime burn history could not be independently verified on chain; a community source, catearmy.com, states the coin launched at a fixed 1,000,000,000 supply with mint authority revoked and puts cumulative burns since the July 26 launch at roughly 3.6 percent of that original figure, consistent with the 964 million circulating count used throughout, though that source is a community site rather than a neutral explorer. What can be said with confidence is that supply stayed stable across the run and crash covered here. The $91.35 million figure is the first in the token's history to clear both of its previously recorded peaks under one consistent method: PoorGoat's own self reported $88 million from August 3, 2026, and the earlier $70 million figure recorded above. Recomputing the August 3 day's own GeckoTerminal high price against the current supply basis yields about $83.9 million, a close but not identical corroboration of PoorGoat's self report, a gap plausibly explained by intraday timing or a slightly different supply snapshot on his end. Large holder @Aurelius0121 posted the same morning that "$CATE went vertical from a $10M mcap to $90M and then had its first real pullback lol," and tracker account @mellometrics, in a recap post, independently put the peak at "$91m" and the level after the crash at "$37m," both matching this article's own figures. Volume was heavy through the run: tracker @PumpfunEco listed $CATE at $85 million in 24 hour volume, the most of any pump.fun coin that day, and the pair's own data showed $53.1 million in 24 hour volume with 194,070 combined buy and sell transactions. Holder counts grew alongside the price: PoorGoat posted "WE DID IT. 100K CATE HOLDERS" at 23:38 UTC on August 22, about ninety minutes before the measured peak, while a holder distribution snapshot sourced to Helius onchain data and posted by @IntenseInvest0r put the top 100 wallets at 36.13 percent of supply and the top 1,000 wallets at 79.48 percent as of the evening before the peak; a later post from @I4NFTS cited more than 106,000 holders in less than 30 days, a variant figure reported here as stated rather than reconciled to PoorGoat's rounder count.

The turn came inside the very next hourly candle. GeckoTerminal's bar stamped 02:00 to 03:00 UTC opened at $0.08770, reached a high of only $0.08808 early in the hour, then collapsed to a low of $0.03727 before closing at $0.05342, a fall of about 60 percent measured from the actual intraday peak price to that crash hour's low, in roughly one to two hours (the hour's own open to low range shows a narrower fall, about 58 percent). The trailing 24 hour change fields on DexScreener and GeckoTerminal read a smaller drop, around negative 52 to negative 53 percent, because that rolling window started before the peak was even reached and so understates the true peak to trough move; both figures are real, they measure different windows rather than contradicting each other. Roughly a day after the crash the pair traded around $36.8 million to $37.5 million FDV, still about 3.5 times the article's earlier August 18 snapshot of about $10.6 million; the most recent reading available for this update put the level lower still, around $35.3 million, continued drift rather than a second crash.

Wallet tracker @StalkHQ named specific sellers in the hours after the crash. A first post identified a wallet said to be owned by @Aurelius0121 that sold about 1.5 million CATE for $131.4K over a 67 minute window ending 02:41 UTC, but hedged in the same post that "$131K sell spread over 67 minutes might not be enough to explain Cate dump" and that the wallet's selling "could be one part of a larger chain of events." A second, later post from the same account gave a fuller timeline: after Aurelius0121 finished selling at 02:41 UTC, three more wallets sold in sequence, @frankdegods for $109.6K at 02:53 UTC, a wallet tagged curtstarfish944 for $108.4K at 03:22 UTC, and @Ashco_a for $113.3K at 04:00 UTC, for $462.7K combined across the four. The dollar figures and timestamps are StalkHQ's own documented tracking; that the selling caused the crash is StalkHQ's own characterization, offered with its own hedge in the first post, not an established fact.

Both Aurelius0121 and frankdegods publicly denied intent to crash the chart. Aurelius0121, in a post styled as "an official statement," wrote in full: "I took some profits and derisked, as I always do. For context, I only realized roughly 10% profit on the position. My wallets are public, my movements are public, and nothing was hidden or malicious. The sell off was simply multiple large holders derisking, liquidity thinning, the MM no longer absorbing the pressure, and panic cascading through the market. No one person, including myself, nuked the chart... This is a temporary setback. I believe $CATE can resume its move toward new ATHs, $150M to $200M." He posted a shorter version of the same defense twice more that day: "I wasn't the one who caused the dump... someone is now trying to build this narrative around me," and, separately, that "someone connected to $CATE may be trying to build a narrative around somebody else to distract from whoever is actually behind these dumps," naming no one. Separately, @frankdegods posted, reacting to onchain activity not fully captured in the record, "??? this is obviously what caused the dump. staying away from any coin this guy touches going forward holy fuck this looks like it caused the nuke both times. so fucking aids." The tweet does not name who "this guy" is, and this article does not resolve it either. Hours later frankdegods gave his own account of trading the coin, in full: "I bought CATE because I saw the community was insane... My assumption was that whatever bundle caused the nuke the first time was out, so now it could actually run. It appears I was wrong, which became clear when it dumped the same way again, so I cut immediately when I saw that? That's the screenshots people are sharing around, as if it's my fault for selling after it nuked 50% again." Aurelius0121 later defended frankdegods by name: "it's not even @frankdegods's fault. He literally panic sold the local bottom. Stop blaming us or trying to pin this on someone. We were NOT the cause of this dump." That evening Aurelius0121 echoed PoorGoat's own catchphrase, posting the identical line "After sleeping on it, ive come to the conclusion... $CATE TO BILLIONS" seven minutes after PoorGoat's own version below, a shared line rather than a coincidence.

PoorGoat's own posts trace the arc from confidence through crash to defiance. Marking three weeks since the takeover on August 18, he reported "roughly 160K followers on Fomo and 50K+ on X," acknowledged "pumps, dumps, FUD, rotations," and closed "ONBOARD THE WORLD. FLIP DOGE. TRILLION. DOLLAR. CATE." On August 20: "THIS FLIPPING WILL BE STUDIED IN HISTORY BOOKS. CATS FLIP DOGS. CATE FLIPS DOGE." On August 21: "Balls on the table. Trillion. Dollar. Cate." At 23:14 UTC on August 22, about two hours before the measured peak: "SLOWLY, THEN ALL AT ONCE. CATS FLIP DOGS. CATE FLIPS DOGE." At 23:38 UTC the same night, about ninety minutes before the peak: "WE DID IT. 100K CATE HOLDERS... NEXT UP: 1 MILLION." After the crash, at 14:25 UTC on August 23, he answered the bundle accusations directly without naming Aurelius0121 or frankdegods: "The sell shaming is lame af. I don't think it's fair to say that was a bundle though when most the wallets who sold had public identities connected to them. Name the last coin that went straight to a billion. We went 8x in 2 days people took p and caused panic. MINOR SET BACK ON A MAJOR MOVEMENT. SO MUCH FUCKING HIGHER." At 16:02 UTC the same day, his last post in this window: "After sleeping on it, ive come to the conclusion... $CATE TO BILLIONS."

The crash split crypto Twitter into believers and skeptics. Among the believers: @PeliSzn described a "familiar pattern" of sharp drops followed by quiet, writing "I bought the dip without hesitation. I will likely do the same if it happens again. TRILLION. DOLLAR. CATE." @I4NFTS blamed "massive whales that don't know how to scale out respectfully" and predicted the token "speedruns past $100m" once "the dust settles." @Xeer, in the highest engagement post found on the topic, celebrated trader wins across the run, including a holder who "held $cate to 10m before popping back up to ATH," urging traders to "normalize celebrating people around you winning." @ghostf1ow defended both named sellers by name, writing "Selling doesn't automatically mean someone wants the chart to fall... Don't let a red candle make the community toxic."

Skeptics were louder still. @Mike_Ess_ wrote, "At this point if you enter into cate token and trust poorgoat you should just light your money on fire. This is financial advice." @guccitos77 called PoorGoat "a fucking bum" who had "launched HUNDREDS of tokens that couldn't even break 5k MC" before Cate, an unverified allegation about his prior track record. @Grahamyy_ argued "CATE IS FORCED AND DUMB. No single thing to push, no major backing all it has is @PoorGoat_ who could nuke the chart at any time." @FakeRosaParkXBT accused the Fomo app itself of a repeat pattern: "FOMO ran marketing campaigns directly for $CATE just to then rug it... They did it with $UNC, with $GME, and have shamelessly done it twice on $CATE." @aleciareed_ pressed Aurelius0121 directly, arguing his "tracked wallet received sol from a wallet that was selling cate during the dump same time same amount," which she said his "0.015%" framing did not explain; @MoEthWhale replied that the second wallet was Aurelius0121's "public, non FOMO wallet" and "directly connected to his FOMO wallet," a routing pattern he described as standard practice among Fomo app traders to avoid app fees, not concealment.

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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