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MANEKI

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MANEKI
MANEKI
Image: token logo via CoinGecko / DexScreener listings
tickerMANEKI
blockchainSolana
launchedApril 2024
peak market capabout 260 million dollars (April 2024)

MANEKI is a Solana meme coin modeled on the Japanese maneki neko lucky cat figurine, which reached a nine figure valuation within a day of its April 2024 launch.

Contents
  1. 1 Origin
  2. 2 Market history
  3. 3 Cultural impact
  4. 4 Namesake tokens
  5. 5 References

MANEKI is a cat themed meme coin on Solana inspired by the maneki neko, the Japanese beckoning cat figurine displayed in shops to invite luck and wealth. Launched on April 22, 2024, it turned one of the world's oldest good fortune symbols into one of the fastest nine figure meme coin debuts of the 2024 cycle.

Origin

MANEKI arrived during the cat coin rotation of spring 2024, when popcat, michi, and cat in a dogs world had made felines the dominant Solana meta. MANEKI launched with a total supply of 8,888,888,888 tokens, a deliberately auspicious lucky eights number chosen to match the fortune theme; the project ran no presale and held no team allocation, permanently burned 90 percent of liquidity, and distributed the remaining 10 percent to the community through airdrops. The project wrapped the lucky cat iconography in polished branding and launched with unusually strong distribution and exchange access for a day one meme coin. The premise required no explanation in any language, which helped the coin travel across both western and Asian trading communities; coverage from KuCoin and others grouped it immediately with the top tier of cat memes. The official Maneki account also ran webcomics as marketing, aimed specifically at introducing the maneki neko legend to Western audiences unfamiliar with the folklore. The project's ambitions extended beyond the token itself: it applied for global trademark protection and announced plans for a manga and anime series plus merchandise, an attempt to build a lasting character brand around the mascot.

Market history

The debut was the story. Within 24 hours of launch the token's market capitalization topped roughly 260 million dollars according to InsideBitcoins coverage, an opening few coins of the era matched without a celebrity attached. CoinGecko puts the precise all time high at about $0.0276 on April 25, 2024, two days after launch. It could not hold the level: like most 2024 launches it spent the following months in decline, interrupted by rallies during broader cat coin surges, including a double digit move alongside popcat covered by Crypto Briefing later that year. Tracker data thereafter shows the familiar decay curve, with the price down more than 99 percent from its all time high by the mid 2020s and the coin surviving as a small cap listing on major aggregators. As of this research the token trades around $0.0002278 with a market capitalization of about 2 million dollars, down roughly 99.2 percent from its all time high, and it set a fresh all time low of $0.0001957 on June 6, 2026, meaning MANEKI was still actively traded and still finding new lows deep into 2026. MANEKI trades on Bybit, though as of this research it is not directly listed for purchase on Binance according to Binance's own how to buy guide for the token.

Cultural impact

MANEKI is cited in the trenches as the cleanest example of the instant nine figure debut, a launch engineered to open at scale rather than climb from nothing, and its first day remains a reference point in arguments about whether coins that start big can ever compound the way organic risers like popcat did. It also marks the moment the 2024 cat meta went global: by borrowing a symbol with centuries of real world meaning, MANEKI showed that trench culture would strip mine any iconography, ancient or modern, for a tradable mascot. The beckoning cat holding a gold coin became a recurring visual in later cat coin branding, and the token's fast fade after a huge open is used as a standard case study in launch structure debates.

Namesake tokens

On August 20, 2026, an unrelated token also called MANEKI launched on Robinhood Chain and entered the "arena" of pools.fun, a token issuance platform built by SushiSwap and the trading bot Bankr, alongside a token called SUSHICAT. The Robinhood Chain token deployed that same day, roughly three hours before its arena entry, under its own website, themanekineko.com, and its own X handle, @ManekiRH, distinct from the original Solana project's manekineko.world and @unrevealedxyz. It trended hard on debut, up about 3,484 percent in 24 hours per DexScreener, a real pump that nonetheless briefly created ticker confusion with the coin covered in this article. The original Solana MANEKI remains Solana only per CoinGecko, with no Robinhood Chain contract added to its listing there. That confusion reached CoinGecko's own MANEKI page directly: its automated news widget, run by the aggregator Elfa AI, generated a headline reading "MANEKI Launch Activity, Robinhood Chain Listing And Pools.fun Entry" about three hours after the pools.fun arena tweet, even though the page's own network field was never updated to add a Robinhood Chain listing, an automated headline keying off a trending ticker match rather than a confirmed multichain expansion by the original team.

References

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Last updated 2026-08-20