A guide to cats and crypto 😺
What are cat-themed memecoins? 🧐
Popular cat-themed memecoins 🐱
Mog Coin (MOG)
Popcat (POPCAT)
cat in a dogs world (MEW)
michi (MICHI)
Wen Wen Coin (WEN)
The appeal of cat-coinss 👀
Community influence 📚
The risks of memecoins 📍
FOMO into the feline frenzy

Top cat-themed memecoins 2025

By Kraken Learn team
5 min
22. Jan. 2025
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Key takeaways 🔑
  1. Memecoins are digital assets that act as a tribute to popular memes (ranging from online phenomena and jokes to animals and celebrities)

  2. Though dog-themed coins reign in this domain, cat-themed rivals have taken off in recent times.

  3. Like most memecoins, cat coins tend to be incredibly volatile and speculative in nature.

A guide to cats and crypto 😺

Even those unfamiliar with crypto know of Dogecoin: the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency based on the famous Shiba Inu meme. Despite a perceived lack of utility, the coin ranks in the top ten largest cryptocurrencies by market cap and boasts a massive global community.

But DOGE is just the tip of the iceberg for dog-themed assets: Shiba Inu, Bonk, FLOKI and dogwifhat represent a handful of the other highly popular canine coins capturing hearts and minds among investors.

More recently, however, a new category of feline-focused memecoins has emerged to rival the dog meta: cat-themed tokens. In this article, we’ll discuss their evolution and showcase some of the top entrants in the niche.

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What are cat-themed memecoins? 🧐

As the name suggests, a cat-themed memecoin is a cryptocurrency or blockchain token built around a cat—whether real or fictional. As far as functionality goes, these coins don’t diverge from the standard memecoin playbook: they usually boast massive supplies and no utility, with their value derived from the strength of their respective communities.

Few themes resonate quite like cats, and the reigning monarchs of memes have inspired an entire litter of digital currencies, each promising unique perks and a playful approach to crypto.

Popular cat-themed memecoins 🐱

Mog Coin (MOG)

Launched in 2023, Mog Coin (MOG) is the largest cat token by market capitalization, with a presence on both Base and Ethereum. 

The project styles itself on a cat face emoji, complete with a set of sunglasses. It describes itself as the “internet’s first culture coin,” with goals of becoming a culture-defining force within the crypto ecosystem.

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Popcat (POPCAT)

Next on the list of feline-inspired tokens is Popcat (POPCAT): the Solana-based memecoin paying homage to a 2020 meme, depicting the titular cat (named Oatmeal) with a comically large, photoshopped mouth. At its all-time high price, POPCAT held a market cap of almost $2 billion. 

The token’s homepage serves as a massive, online competition. Detecting the user’s country, it encourages them to repeatedly click on an image of a cat, thereby incrementing their country’s total click count in the leaderboard.

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cat in a dogs world (MEW)

cat in a dogs world’s (MEW) name calls out the saturation of dog-themed coins. In fact, the project’s mission is to end this dominance, its lore set in a dystopian universe where cats must rise up to disrupt the “dog days.”

The Solana-based coin leans heavily into its community’s creativity, with a focus on showcasing memes, stickers and comic strips on its site and in its channels.

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michi (MICHI)

michi takes inspiration from a photo of a cat standing on two legs, referred to as “the most memeable cat on the internet.”

Functionally, it has all the hallmarks of a Solana memecoin: a large supply, 0% sell tax, burned LP—and, perhaps most importantly, a community creating and sharing michi memes, many of which are created using the project’s Meme Maker tool.

Wen Wen Coin (WEN)

With a global community of almost a quarter of a million, Wen bills itself as a culture and a movement based on “the internet’s cutest cat”—a cartoon feline in a spacesuit.

The project is noted for the scale of its initial airdrop, in which WEN was distributed to over one million Solana users. Additionally, the project owns two of the top cat content X accounts, providing it with massive reach among non-crypto audiences.

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The appeal of cat-themed cryptocurrencies 👀

Cat-inspired tokens have exploded in popularity over the past couple of years. Why?

A number of factors could play a part in this. For starters, the surge could represent an appetite for something other than dog-themed memecoins—which, for years, have dominated the memecoin space. Indeed, MEW’s brand satirizes this meta, promising an end to the “dog tyranny.”

Of course, the general memecoin trend may also be responsible: with the ease of launching a token in the Solana ecosystem, the space saw a general boom in animal-themed coins. The success of leading cat coins may, in turn, have inspired similar successful projects, resulting in a snowball effect.

As for reasons why investors choose them? They’re the same as any other memecoin: holders may be banking on a price increase, or enjoy the vibes, ethos and community of the token.

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Community influence of cat-themed memecoins 📚

Memecoins live and die by the strength of their communities: by definition, the sole focus of these tokens is to propagate the underlying meme. It’s therefore in their interest to nurture a vibrant community, in the hopes that its members will act as brand ambassadors—creating content and raising awareness of the token to their own networks.

The dynamic is no different for cat-themed memecoins. The top entrants in the category leverage Telegram as a hub for discussion, allowing community members to interact and share memes.

The risks of investing in cat-themed memecoins 📍

Crypto investments are high-risk—and memecoins, potentially even more so. 

Even the top cat-themed tokens have relatively low market capitalizations (when compared to established cryptocurrencies). This can result in higher volatility, and means that buys/sells can more easily cause drastic price fluctuations.

Market risk aside, there are a handful of other factors that could result in a sudden loss of value (get up to speed on them in our latest memecoin article). Ultimately, prospective investors should remember that cat-themed memecoins have no inherent value, and that, like most memecoins, their value relies on the strength of their community—which could wane due to mismanagement by the dev team, market sentiment, or a simple lack of interest in the underlying meme.

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