POPCAT launched on Solana in late 2023 as a tribute to the viral 2020 “Pop Cat” meme — a cat opening and closing its mouth to a popping sound. The token gained traction by tying itself to a clicker game called Popcat.click, where users tapped a cat image to make it pop. The site became a global phenomenon, with users from every country competing to make the most pops.
The combination of meme + game + token worked. POPCAT reached a multi-billion dollar market cap by mid-2024, becoming the largest cat-themed memecoin in crypto. It was the first major memecoin to challenge the long dominance of dog coins. The Solana memecoin supercycle had finally embraced cats. POPCAT proved that meme communities could be built around any animal, any image, any joke — as long as the joke was loud enough.
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