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Hoodrat (HOODRAT) is a meme coin on [[Robinhood Chain]] launched in early July 2026, one of the first breakout memes of the chain that Robinhood built for tokenized stocks and that meme coins promptly colonized. Its mascot is a rat in the "hood," a pun on the chain's name.

## Origin

Hoodrat launched on Uniswap deployed liquidity within days of Robinhood Chain's meme scene igniting. The project claims its character is inspired by the surreal universe of Matt Furie's Night Riders comic, the world of frogs, rats, dragons and dreamlike caves from the artist behind Pepe; this lineage is the project's own framing rather than any confirmed involvement by Furie. The name landed because it fused the chain's branding with an existing slang archetype, and the community filled in the rest with slogan warfare: "study Hoodrat," "return to Hoodrat," and "billions must Hoodrat."

## Market history

The token ran almost immediately. CryptoRank records an all time high price of about 0.0149 dollars on July 10, 2026, an implied market capitalization of about 15 million dollars, making it one of the largest pure memes on the chain during the week when CoinDesk reported that meme coins, not tokenized stocks, were driving Robinhood Chain's early volume. Bitrue listed it among the five largest meme coins on the network that month. The chart cooled with the wider chain rotation, and as of mid August 2026 HOODRAT trades at a market capitalization of about 2.2 million dollars per DexScreener and CryptoRank.

## Furie account promotion

On August 1, 2026, cartoonist [[Matt Furie]]'s X account, dormant for about nine months, changed its profile picture to a hoodrat image and posted HOODRAT's contract address. KuCoin News reported the post was later deleted after the token's market capitalization surged and then collapsed. The same account went on to promote two other tokens, DORK and BOYZ, over the following week before stating on August 9 that it does not endorse any altcoins and claiming it had been hacked; analysts found no archived evidence of the disclaimers the account said it had posted on Furie's official website and questioned the timing of the hack claim. This episode is separate from the project's own framing of its character as inspired by Furie's Night Riders universe, described above.

## HOOD6 index and Vlad Tenev replies

On July 15, 2026 the index protocol Vimen launched HOOD6, a permissionless, fully backed basket of six Robinhood Chain tokens, [[Cash Cat|Cashcat]], Arrow, Hoodrat, Vibecat, Vex and Virtual, describing itself as "the scoreboard" for the chain's early meme culture; the contract has no admin key, exposes a public isFullyBacked function, and allows free redemption back into the underlying six tokens at any time. Holders also lobbied Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev directly in his own replies within days of HOODRAT's launch: "Thoughts on $hoodrat sir?" on July 17, 2026, and "The Hoodrats have taken over crypto" the same day.

A paid promotion controversy surfaced within the token's first weeks, with one post alleging "This shitty ass HOODRAT token has paid ever typa kol from reg dudes to the most shit tier ass niggas" on July 12, 2026, an allegation from a single account, not a confirmed fact. Separately, a widely shared post mocked the whole Robinhood Chain meme wave's naming creativity by listing "Cashcat, Hoodrat, Cat in hat, Cashdog, Dog in hood, Dog in suit, Cash dog in hood" together on July 18, 2026.

## Community story

Hoodrat's community runs a pure repetition meta, no roadmap and no mechanics, just the slogans applied daily, which commentators compared to the [[cult coin]] posting style of earlier Solana memes. As the chain's self declared "menace," it plays the degen counterpart to wholesome neighbors like [[Brodie]], and the two are usually cited together as the poles of the chain's first meme summer alongside [[Frong]] and [[Stonkbroker]].

## Current status

As of mid August 2026 the token still trades actively on Robinhood Chain DEXs with its community intact, down roughly 85 percent from the July peak.

## References

- CryptoRank: https://cryptorank.io/price/hoodrat-robinhood
- CoinDesk: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/13/robinhood-built-a-blockchain-for-tokenized-stocks-memecoins-took-over
- Bitrue: https://www.bitrue.com/blog/top-robinhood-network-meme-coins
- certifiedhoodrat.com: https://certifiedhoodrat.com/
- X profile of @hoodrat_coin: https://x.com/hoodrat_coin
- KuCoin: https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/pepe-creator-matt-furie-s-account-linked-to-3-meme-coins-before-claiming-it-was-hacked
- X post by @vimenprotocol: https://x.com/vimenprotocol/status/2077275720246530417
- X post by @cometcalls: https://x.com/cometcalls/status/2078253722895815104
- X post by @LilMoonLambo: https://x.com/LilMoonLambo/status/2078257030297530647
- X post by @AgentZero: https://x.com/AgentZero/status/2076403900152991898
- X post by @michyexe: https://x.com/michyexe/status/2078549269024244101

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