Jimothy
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| ticker | $JIMOTHY |
|---|---|
| blockchain | Solana |
| launched | July 16, 2026 (pump.fun) |
| peak market cap | about $16 million (August 8, 2026) |
Jimothy ($JIMOTHY) is a Solana memecoin named after a viral Seattle raccoon that jumped 331 percent in one day in August 2026 after Elon Musk posted a raccoon video.
Jimothy ($JIMOTHY), fully Jimothy The Raccoon, is a raccoon themed memecoin on Solana that became one of the most mentioned tickers in the trenches in the first half of August 2026 after an Elon Musk post sent it vertical.
Origin
$JIMOTHY launched on pump.fun on July 16, 2026, named after a viral Seattle raccoon whose clips had spread across social platforms. Like most trench coins it has no product, protocol, or staking mechanism; commentators described its value as resting entirely on community participation and attention. Crypto media reported that the token surged roughly 52 times within days of launch and spiked again after a mention from an official White House social media account.
Market history
The defining move came on August 8, 2026, when Elon Musk posted a raccoon video created by Dogan Ural, a designer and creative ambassador at xAI. Musk never named the coin, but $JIMOTHY jumped about 331 percent to roughly a $16.2 million market cap with about $25.4 million in 24 hour trading volume, per coverage syndicated by Yahoo Finance and CryptoRank. Tracker accounts placed it among the top pump.fun coins by daily volume that week, with about $6.3 million on quieter days. Analysts writing about the move compared it to earlier Musk driven rallies such as FLOKI and cautioned that the coin is, in one writer's phrase, a derivative on attention.
The rally did not hold its full size. As of August 18, 2026, $JIMOTHY traded around a $7.1 million market cap with several hundred thousand dollars in daily volume per DexScreener, still well above its pre Musk levels. The situation is ongoing.
Cultural impact
$JIMOTHY typified the August 2026 pattern of animal mascots with organic meme history outperforming manufactured launches. Its holders leaned into raccoon lore and the coin drew loud evangelists on crypto Twitter, including accounts urging it "to a billy for the homies," while skeptics used it as the textbook case of a token whose price hangs on somebody else's social media posts.
References
- https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/solana-meme-coin-jimothy-jumps-050009868.html
- https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/c07ff-jimothy-meme-coin-musk-raccoon-rally
- https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/d4275-jimothy-raccoon-meme-coin-rally-solana
- https://coindcx.com/blog/crypto-news-global/why-is-jimothy-price-rising/
- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/jimothy-the-raccoon
- https://x.com/BSCNews/status/2079507078322769982
- https://dexscreener.com/search?q=JIMOTHY
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