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Hosico (HOSICO) is a cat themed [[meme coin]] on [[Solana]] named for Hosico, a Scottish Straight cat with golden fur and a face widely compared to Puss in Boots, who has been one of the most followed cats on the internet since the mid 2010s. The token became one of the signature coins of the [[letsbonk.fun]] launchpad during its 2025 challenge to [[pump.fun]].

## Origin

The coin launched on Solana in 2025, during the period when the BONK backed launchpad letsbonk.fun was overtaking pump.fun in daily launches and needed flagship graduates to prove the platform could mint winners; the [[letsbonk flippening]] made its leading tokens objects of intense attention. Hosico fit the moment: a globally recognizable cat with a decade of accumulated internet goodwill, in the lineage of real animal coins like [[popcat]]'s Oatmeal and [[moo deng]]. Bitrue's coverage recorded the launch dynamics, with the market capitalization reaching about 10 million dollars within an hour before settling, and OKX's explainer highlighted the community's Ghibli styled art direction as part of its appeal.

## Market history

HOSICO ran with the letsbonk wave through early summer 2025. CoinGecko records the all time high of about 0.075 dollars on July 6, 2025, which against the one billion token supply implied a peak market value of about 75 million dollars, making it one of the largest tokens the launchpad had produced at that point. The token was listed and tracked across major venues and wallets, including Phantom's in wallet token pages. As the letsbonk meta cooled and attention rotated onward in late 2025, HOSICO declined steeply with its platform cohort; by mid 2026 CoinGecko showed a market capitalization in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars, down more than 99 percent from the July 2025 peak.

## Artifacte pivot

The team behind Hosico built Artifacte, marketed as "The Sotheby's of Sol Aggregated RWA's," a curated real world asset and collectibles platform built by Hosico Labs; the official Hosico account's bio now reads "Out of the trenches, the star child was born. Shoot for the stars. RWA's @artifacte_inc." Two named community figures identify as core contributors to the project: RugDalio, whose bio lists "Core Contributor: @hosico_on_sol / @artifacte_inc," and csin02, whose bio lists "Core Contributor: @Hosico_on_sol, Founder @artifacte_inc." By mid 2026 HOSICO's market capitalization had fallen to roughly 739,000 dollars, consistent with the coin's reported collapse from its July 2025 peak while the team's attention moved to the RWA platform.

## Cultural impact

Hosico is remembered as the pedigreed champion of the letsbonk summer: the proof case, alongside [[useless coin]]'s migration era peers, that the challenger launchpad could graduate a coin into the tens of millions. It extended the real cat lineage of Solana meme culture into the 2025 cycle, and its rise and fall traced the launchpad war itself so closely that its chart is sometimes used as shorthand for the entire letsbonk episode in [[the trenches]]. The coin also illustrates the era's compressed timelines, moving from viral launch to nine figure ambitions to residual listing within roughly a year, a cycle that took the 2024 generation nearly twice as long.

## References

- Bitrue: https://www.bitrue.com/blog/what-is-hosico-coin
- OKX: https://www.okx.com/en-us/learn/hosico-cat-meme-coin-ghibli-art-community
- CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/hosico-cat
- CryptoRank: https://cryptorank.io/price/hosico-cat
- crypto.news: https://crypto.news/hosico-cat-everscale-meme-cats-underdogs-lead-pack/
- X profile of @Artifacte_inc: https://x.com/Artifacte_inc
- X profile of @Hosico_on_sol: https://x.com/Hosico_on_sol
- X profile of @RugDalio: https://x.com/RugDalio
- X profile of @csin02: https://x.com/csin02
- coinbrain.com: https://coinbrain.com/coins/eth-0x43d1353c0d9eb28cbb0a64d9965327bc51f40dfe

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