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Neiro is a rescue Shiba Inu adopted in 2024 by Atsuko Sato, the Japanese owner of Kabosu, the dog behind the Doge meme and [[Dogecoin]]. After Kabosu died in May 2024 and Sato introduced her new dog that July, tokens named Neiro launched within hours across Ethereum, [[Solana]] and other chains, producing one of the most contested succession fights in [[meme coin]] history.

## Origin

The premise was inheritance: if Kabosu begat Dogecoin, the next dog of the same owner might beget the next Dogecoin. Dozens of Neiro tokens appeared in late July 2024, and the field consolidated into rivals with the same name. On Ethereum the two main claimants were a larger token often labeled Neiro Ethereum and a smaller community run token branded First Neiro on Ethereum, which traders framed as the grassroots version after its early insiders left; a Solana Neiro from the [[pump.fun]] ecosystem ran alongside them. Decrypt described the standoff as an outright meme coin war, with each faction claiming legitimacy while Sato herself had no involvement in any token.

## Market history

Before the exchanges settled anything, the Neiro Ethereum team made its own bid for legitimacy. On August 4, 2024, it airdropped about 4.08 percent of total supply, 17.15 billion tokens, directly to [[Vitalik Buterin]]'s wallet, publicly framing him as the token's largest holder. Buterin sold the entire allocation the next day, August 5, for 44.53 ETH worth about 112,448 dollars on [[Uniswap]] V2, and the dump crashed the token's price by as much as 60 percent. The Neiro team publicly asked him to donate the proceeds to charity; contributors subsequently raised almost 1,600 dollars, which was sent to a stray dog shelter in Japan, a deliberate echo of Buterin's earlier Shiba Inu charity donations that outlets explicitly framed under the headline "This Is How SHIB Started." The Ethereum side split into rival hashtag camps in the dump's immediate aftermath, with names like #VitaliksNeiro and #neiroethcto circulating by August 18, 2024, and many holders defended Buterin against accusations that the airdrop amounted to an endorsement: "He dumped every animal coin in his wallet, the scam narrative of saying its somehow an endorsement is illegal. He told them to STOP sending him coins," one trader wrote at the time.

The war was settled by exchanges. On September 6, 2024, Binance launched perpetual futures tracking the larger Ethereum version. Then on September 16 Binance spot listed the ticker NEIRO but pointed it at the smaller First Neiro token, a roughly 16 to 20 million dollar coin at the time. The listed token rose as much as 611 percent in hours, over 1,100 percent by some counts, surging past 120 million dollars, while the unlisted larger version crashed more than 50 percent the same day, a sequence Bitcoinist called a controversial listing and traders called kingmaking. Listings on OKX, Crypto.com and HTX followed within days, and Decrypt reported the winner reaching about 161 million dollars and a top 25 meme coin ranking by late September. The run continued to an all time high near 0.0031 dollars on November 12, 2024, a market capitalization of about 1.18 billion dollars per CCN and CryptoRank. The token then declined through 2025, while the Solana and rival Ethereum versions faded to small fractions of their peaks.

By August 2026 the numbers behind that decline were stark on both sides. First Neiro on Ethereum, the token that won the Binance listing war, traded around 0.000064 dollars, a market capitalization near 26.8 million dollars, down about 98 percent from its November 2024 all time high and ranked roughly 514th by market cap on CoinMarketCap, having declined through 2025 without dying outright. The Solana version, which had a fair [[pump.fun]] launch on July 27, 2024, and reached its own all time high of 0.05024 dollars on July 28, 2024, an implied peak near 50 million dollars against its roughly one billion token supply, fell further: by August 2026 its market capitalization stood near 207,000 dollars, down about 99.4 percent from peak, with an all time low of 0.0001653 dollars recorded February 22, 2026. Its community brands around the account @NeiroWoof, whose bio calls it "the first NEIRO token ever launched" and notes that its contract address ends in "bropump."

## Cultural impact

Neiro crystallized two lessons of the 2024 cycle. First, narrative succession is tradable: the market seriously priced the idea of an heir to Doge. Second, in a fight between identical claims, centralized listings decide the winner, a precedent invoked in every subsequent ticker war in [[the trenches]]. The September 16 whipsaw, where holders of the larger Neiro were cut in half by a listing they had expected to benefit from, remains a case study in exchange risk for meme coin traders.

Neiro also produced real trading losses for at least one prominent figure. According to a BlockBeats account of trader [[Ansem]]'s 2026 decline as a KOL, he made 28 separate purchases of Neiro, averaging down as the price fell, investing about 350,000 dollars total, and closed the position at a 77 percent loss of roughly 270,000 dollars. A June 1, 2025 post from another trader credited Ansem's entry into "the Neiro space" as "the start of PVP" among traders, framing his position as a moment other traders began reacting to and trading against.

## References

- Decrypt: https://decrypt.co/248495/neiro-on-ethereum-becomes-top-25-meme-coin-after-binance-crypto-com-okx-listings
- dailycoin.com: https://dailycoin.com/low-cap-neiro-meme-coin-soars-611-on-surprise-binance-listing
- The Crypto Times: https://www.cryptotimes.io/2024/09/17/neiro-soars-1100-amid-binance-duplicate-listing-confusion/
- Bitcoinist: https://bitcoinist.com/binance-50-neiro-crash/
- CCN: https://www.ccn.com/analysis/crypto/first-neiro-ethereum-neiro-price-prediction/
- thecryptobasic.com: https://thecryptobasic.com/2024/08/05/buterin-dumps-his-entire-neiro-holdings-for-44-53-eth/
- Cryptonews: https://cryptonews.com/news/vitalik-buterin-dumps-17-1-billion-neiro-tokens-in-exchange-for-44-53-eth/
- Coinspeaker: https://www.coinspeaker.com/buterin-neiro-meme-coin-token-price/
- CryptoPotato: https://cryptopotato.com/this-is-how-shib-started-neiro-pumps-after-buterin-dumps/
- X post by @NftWorn: https://x.com/NftWorn/status/1825256294472716381
- BlockBeats: https://en.theblockbeats.news/news/54727
- X post by @SolTradezy: https://x.com/SolTradezy/status/1929169342538633628
- Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/price/neiro-sol
- CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/neiro-2
- CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/neiro-3
- CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/neiro/

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