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Pajamas Cat

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Pajamas Cat
Pajamas Cat
Image: token logo via CoinGecko / DexScreener listings
tickerPAJAMAS
blockchainSolana
launchedearly 2024
peak market capabout 34 million dollars (May 2024)

Pajamas Cat is an early 2024 Solana meme coin honoring the first cat video ever uploaded to YouTube, remembered in pump.fun folklore, though not confirmed by market data sites, as one of the first tokens to complete the platform's bonding curve.

Contents
  1. 1 Origin
  2. 2 Claim to fame: Steve Chen joins the project
  3. 3 Market history
  4. 4 Cultural impact
  5. 5 References

Pajamas Cat is a cat themed meme coin on Solana branded as The First Youtube Cat. It commemorates a genuine piece of internet history: the video "Pajamas and Nick Drake," a clip of a cat named Pajamas playing with a rope set to Nick Drake's music, uploaded by YouTube co founder Steve Chen on May 22, 2005, and generally regarded as the first cat video on the platform. Pajamas was Chen's own pet cat, and the coin's defining moment came when Chen personally joined the token's project as a team member in April 2024, triggering a week long rally reported between 500 and 690 percent, the largest gain among Solana meme coins that week.

Origin

The token launched on Solana in early 2024, during the cat coin wave that followed popcat and cat in a dogs world, with a fair launch supply near one billion. Its pitch was lineage rather than novelty: if internet culture began with a cat video, the first YouTube cat deserved a coin. In trader retellings PAJAMAS is closely associated with the earliest weeks of pump.fun, and community lore describes it as among the first tokens ever to complete the platform's bonding curve and graduate to Raydium. That first graduation claim circulates widely in the trenches but is not corroborated by major market data sites, whose listings tie the token's first branding only to the YouTube video; the claim should be treated as folklore rather than established record.

Claim to fame: Steve Chen joins the project

On April 21 to 22, 2024, Steve Chen personally joined the PAJAMAS meme coin project as a team member, confirming the cat in the video was his own pet. Multiple outlets identify this as the trigger for the token's defining rally, a one week surge reported between 500 and 690 percent depending on the outlet, the largest gain among Solana meme coins that week. This, rather than the contested "first to graduate" folklore, is the coin's actual claim to fame.

The same week, over the counter trading desk BitNational announced on April 22, 2024 that it would list PAJAMAS, and on April 26, 2024 Chen posted on X about a meeting with the Binance team, floating a possible listing tied to that year's Taipei Blockchain Week; no Binance listing ever materialized, and PAJAMAS was never listed on a major centralized exchange. Solana cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko followed Chen on X during the surge, a small but widely noted ecosystem endorsement signal at the time. Community partner USA Crypto Group announced a partnership with the project's X account, @TheYoutubeCat, on April 26, 2024, framing it as a tribute to Chen's role as a cofounder of YouTube. Chen also repeatedly tied the cat video's upload date, May 22, 2005, to Bitcoin Pizza Day, which also falls on May 22, telling followers "May 22, 2024, is just around the corner" ahead of the anniversary.

Market history

PAJAMAS traded on Raydium after leaving its launch venue and peaked in the spring 2024 meme rotation. CoinGecko records the all time high at about 0.0351 dollars on May 30, 2024, an implied market value around 34 million dollars against the roughly 980 million circulating supply; CoinPaprika records a slightly higher peak of about 0.0397 dollars on April 27, 2024. Some April 2024 coverage of the Steve Chen rally separately cited a market cap surge as high as 290 million dollars that week; this figure is not corroborated by CoinGecko or CoinPaprika's tracked price history and, given the general unreliability of single outlet market cap snapshots for small caps, should not be treated as the record peak. The token was never listed on major centralized exchanges and declined more than 99 percent from its high through 2025, trading by 2026 at a market capitalization in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars with minimal daily volume.

Cultural impact

Pajamas Cat matters more as legend than as chart. As one of the recognizable names from pump.fun's opening months, it appears in histories of the platform's rise, and its contested first graduate status makes it a standing example of how quickly trench history blurs: barely two years after launch, the community could no longer prove which coin crossed the curve first. The token also extended the cat meta's habit of financializing real feline history, a lineage that runs from Pajamas the 2005 YouTube cat through the meme cats of 2024.

References

See also
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Last updated 2026-08-19