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Nubcat is a cat themed [[meme coin]] on [[Solana]] launched in March 2024, at the height of the cat meta that produced [[popcat]] runs, [[cat in a dogs world]] and a season of influencer pet speculation. Its rise was inseparable from the cult of personality around Ansem, the trader whose calls on [[dogwifhat]] had made him the most followed figure in [[the trenches]] that spring.

## Origin

NUB launched as a fair distribution token with a supply just under one billion, built around images of a round faced cat. Community accounts of the period tie the token to the cat belonging to Ansem, whose posts about his pet fueled weeks of speculation over the animal's name; the association was folkloric rather than official, and Ansem endorsed no token. The coin moved with unusual speed through the legitimacy ladder: Bitget announced a listing on March 29, 2024, within about a week of the token's first trading, with the exchange's release candidly noting that NUB held no intrinsic value and carried no expectation of financial return.

## Market history

The token's peak coincided with the climax of the Ansem pet narrative. In late April 2024 the trader's cat was revealed to be named Hobbes, and a separate coin trading on that name reached a market capitalization near 100 million dollars within a day, covered by Benzinga as the Ansem's Cat phenomenon. NUB topped out in the same window: CoinLore records the all time high at about 0.101 dollars on April 24, 2024, an implied market value around 100 million dollars against the roughly 950 million circulating supply. The influencer pet meta cooled within weeks, and NUB declined through the pump.fun summer alongside the rest of the spring cohort. By 2026 it traded around 2 million dollars in market capitalization, an unusually large survivor for its class.

## Cultural impact

Nubcat marks the moment the trenches began pricing proximity to influencers rather than memes themselves: the asset was, functionally, a bet on one trader's cat. The NUB and Hobbes episode, two nine figure valuations conjured from a pet's name reveal, became the standard reference for the influencer pet meta, cited whenever later communities tried to summon value from a celebrity's animal. It also illustrated the era's compressed exchange timelines, with a centralized listing arriving days after launch, something unthinkable in prior cycles.

## References

- https://www.coinlore.com/coin/nubcat
- https://chainwire.org/2024/03/29/bitget-welcomes-nub-nub-to-its-platform-a-new-meme-coin-on-solana/
- https://cryptopotato.com/bitget-welcomes-nub-nub-to-its-platform-a-new-meme-coin-on-solana/
- https://support.bitrue.com/hc/en-001/articles/30746868994841-A-Meme-Coin-Inspired-by-Solana-s-Influencer-s-Cat-Records-100M-in-Market-Cap-Ansem-s-Cat-HOBBES
- https://www.bitget.com/price/nubcat

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