POPCAT
POPCAT price today and market data
POPCAT price prediction & outlook
POPCAT is one of the elder statesmen of Solana memecoins: launched in December 2023 on the wide-mouthed cat meme, it ran to $2.05 in November 2024 and a market cap above $2 billion, then gave almost all of it back. At capture it traded near $0.063 for a market cap around $60 million on about 980 million tokens, all circulating, down 97% from the peak and 75% over the prior year, with daily volume near $1 million, down 31% on the day. This is not financial advice.
What actually moves the POPCAT price
- The Solana memecoin cycle
- POPCAT rose and fell with the sector. Its 2024 run coincided with WIF and BONK's, and at capture it was the smallest of that group: BONK near $321 million, WIF near $237 million, FARTCOIN near $190 million, POPCAT near $55 million to $60 million depending on the snapshot (CoinGecko). When Solana memecoins bid, POPCAT tends to follow; it has not led since 2024.
- Exchange access already priced in
- The token is listed on Coinbase, Bybit, Kraken, and Bitstamp, and sits in Binance's Alpha program rather than on Binance spot (CoinGecko). Those listings drove the 2024 run; a full Binance spot listing is the one obvious catalyst left, and nothing indicated it was coming.
- Whales and the Hyperliquid episode
- The top twenty wallets hold about 49% of supply and the largest about 10.5% (RugCheck). In mid-November 2025 a trader used large POPCAT positions to manipulate Hyperliquid's perpetuals market, costing its HLP vault about $4.9 million and triggering sector-wide liquidations (CoinDesk). That story resurfaced in Google News in September 2026 with a fresh date; it is a ten-month-old event, not a new one.
- Nothing on the calendar
- No POPCAT-specific listing, partnership, or product news appeared in the ninety days before capture. The token moves on flows, not announcements, which is what a three-year-old memecoin with no team looks like.
- Deep pools for its size
- The main Raydium POPCAT/SOL pool held about $4.2 million and total liquidity ran above $5 million, with the two big pools' liquidity tokens about 99% burned (DexScreener). Price impact is small; that cuts both ways when a whale sells.
What would it take for POPCAT to reach $X?
With roughly 980 million tokens circulating, a price target maps directly to market cap. The multiples below are computed from the live market cap, so they never go stale.
- $0.10~$98M cap2.5x
- $0.25~$245M cap6.3x
- $1.00~$980M cap25x
Can POPCAT reach $0.25?
A price of $0.25 on roughly 980 million tokens implies a market cap near $245 million, about four times the level at capture and roughly where WIF traded, and still an eighth of the November 2024 peak. That would take a new Solana memecoin cycle in which the 2024 names get bid again rather than replaced by newer launches, a Binance spot listing or similar catalyst, and the largest holders not selling into it. These are conditions, not predictions, and this is not financial advice.
To evaluate any POPCAT target: multiply it by roughly 980 million tokens, compare the implied market cap to the live figure on this page and to BONK, WIF, and FARTCOIN, and ask whether a token that has already had its cycle supports it. If it doesn't, the prediction doesn't hold.
How to buy POPCAT in Phantom
Buying POPCAT takes a few minutes once your Phantom wallet holds SOL. The token is listed on Coinbase, Kraken, and Bybit, so you can also buy it there and withdraw to Phantom; on-chain, it trades in Raydium, Orca, and Meteora pools on Solana, which is where Phantom's swap will route.
- Install Phantom and secure your walletDownload Phantom as a mobile app (iOS or Android) or browser extension and create or import a wallet. Write your Secret Recovery Phrase on paper and store it offline; anyone who obtains it controls every asset in the wallet, and Phantom will never ask for it.
- Fund your wallet with SOLSOL pays the network fee, which runs fractions of a cent, and is the asset the deepest POPCAT pool is quoted in. Buy SOL inside Phantom with a card or bank transfer, or send it from an exchange, and keep a small balance in reserve for future transactions.
- Paste the mint address, not the nameIn the Swap tab, paste the full mint address as the receive token and confirm it reads POPCAT on Solana with a holder count in the tens of thousands. An unrelated Ethereum token also called POPCAT claims a supply of 420.69 trillion, and a "Popcat in Hood" copy exists on Robinhood Chain; neither is this token.
- Review the quote and confirmThe main Raydium pool held about $4.2 million at capture, so ordinary orders clear with little impact. Check the estimated output, confirm, and POPCAT lands in your wallet once Solana confirms. There is no transfer tax.
Always verify the mint address
The legitimate mint address is the one shown on this page. Cross-reference it against the CoinGecko listing or Solscan rather than search results or social posts; CoinMarketCap's generic "popcat" page resolves to the unrelated Ethereum token. The project's site is popcatsolana.xyz, and its socials list two X handles across data providers, so treat any account offering an airdrop or support as hostile. If the address does not match exactly, stop.
What buying POPCAT actually costs
Solana network fees are a fraction of a cent, so on a swap the real costs are the pool's fee and price impact, both shown in Phantom's quote. There is no transfer tax, and holding POPCAT in Phantom earns nothing by itself; there is no staking, no revenue, and no project treasury paying anyone.
Phantom (self-custody) | Centralized exchange | |
|---|---|---|
Who holds your keys | You | The exchange |
Who can freeze funds | Nobody | The exchange can |
Buy path for POPCAT | Direct in-wallet swap | Listed on Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, and Bitstamp |
What is POPCAT?
POPCAT is a Solana memecoin built on the "Popcat" meme, a cat named Oatmeal filmed in October 2020 chirping at a bug, whose open-mouthed frame became a viral GIF synced to music and, separately, the popcat.click clicker game launched by three University of Sheffield students in December 2020 (Wikipedia). The token has no connection to the cat's owner or the game; its entire self-description is "POPCAT POP POP POP POP," and its first Raydium pool opened on December 12, 2023 with no named team, no tagged creator wallet, and a supply just under 980 million (DexScreener). Mint and freeze authority are both revoked, and the liquidity tokens for the two main Raydium pools are about 99% burned, which is why the token has survived three years of memecoin turnover without a rug.
The market record is a complete cycle. From an all-time low of $0.0038 on January 5, 2024, POPCAT rose more than 500 times to an all-time high of $2.05 on November 17, 2024, riding the Solana memecoin wave alongside WIF and BONK and a series of exchange listings that now include Coinbase, Bybit, Kraken, and Bitstamp, then fell 97% to about $0.063 at capture, down 75% over the prior year, for a market cap around $60 million (CoinGecko). The one notable event since was not about the token itself: in mid-November 2025 a trader used outsized POPCAT positions to manipulate Hyperliquid's perpetuals market, costing the exchange's HLP vault about $4.9 million and triggering roughly $63 million of liquidations across Solana memecoin markets (CoinDesk). Phantom counts about 138,000 holders, RugCheck about 67,000 with a different method, and the top twenty wallets hold about 49% of supply, one of them split across four accounts in the pattern of an exchange or market maker. Total liquidity ran above $5 million, deep for a memecoin of this size.
Is POPCAT safe?
For a three-year-old memecoin with a clean mint and a finished cycle, safety comes down to three checks and one mindset.
- What the chain says
- Mint and freeze authority revoked, no creator wallet to watch, no transfer tax, and liquidity tokens about 99% burned on the main pools per GoPlus, though RugCheck's report flags the liquidity as "unlocked" because its check looks only for time-locked contracts and misses burns. Metadata status is ambiguous in the same report.
- Who holds it
- Twenty wallets hold half the supply and the largest holds 10.5%, unlabeled. A memecoin's price is set by its biggest holders' patience, and after a 97% drawdown some of them are deeply underwater and some bought the low.
- Impostors
- An Ethereum POPCAT with a 420.69 trillion supply squats on CoinMarketCap's URL, and copies exist on other chains. Only the Solana mint on this page is the token with the listings and the history.
The mindset: POPCAT is a bet that an old meme gets a second cycle, with a liquid market and no fundamentals. Size any position accordingly, verify the mint every time, and treat unsolicited DMs about airdrops, giveaways, or support as theft attempts.
POPCAT FAQ
The market capitalization of POPCAT is $39M as of Nov 2, 2026.
Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the current price of POPCAT by its circulating supply. It reflects the overall value of the token in the market and helps gauge its relative size compared to other cryptocurrencies.
The daily trading volume of POPCAT is $266K as of Nov 2, 2026.
Trading volume can fluctuate based on market conditions, investor activity, and overall demand for POPCAT.
The total supply of POPCAT is 979.93M.
The circulating supply, which represents the number of POPCAT currently available in the market, is 979.93M as of Nov 2, 2026.
POPCAT can be bought and traded on a variety of cryptocurrency platforms, including Phantom!
POPCAT is a Solana memecoin named for the Popcat meme, a cat called Oatmeal whose open-mouthed frame went viral as a GIF in 2020 and spawned the popcat.click game. The token, unrelated to either, launched on Raydium on December 12, 2023 with no named team, has about 980 million tokens in circulation with mint and freeze authority revoked, and became one of the largest Solana memecoins of 2024 before falling 97% from its peak. Its mint address is the one shown on this page.
Structurally it is about as clean as a memecoin gets: mint and freeze authority revoked, no transfer tax, liquidity tokens about 99% burned on the main pools, listings on Coinbase, Kraken, and Bybit, and three years of trading history. The risks are market risks: the price is 97% below its November 2024 high and 75% lower than a year earlier, twenty wallets hold about half the supply, there is no team or product, and impostor tokens use the name on other chains. Only use funds you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice.
Fund Phantom with a little SOL, open the Swap tab, and paste the mint address shown on this page as the token to receive rather than searching by name, because unrelated tokens called POPCAT exist on Ethereum and Robinhood Chain. Confirm the holder count is in the tens of thousands, review the estimated output, and confirm; the main Raydium pool held about $4.2 million at capture, so ordinary orders clear with little impact.
It rode the 2024 Solana memecoin cycle from $0.0038 in January to $2.05 in November, a gain of more than 500 times, on exchange listings and sector momentum, and then the cycle turned: newer launches took the attention, and a token with no product or treasury has nothing to hold its price when flows leave. The November 2025 Hyperliquid manipulation, in which a trader used large POPCAT positions to drain about $4.9 million from the exchange's vault, added a burst of liquidations, but the drawdown was mostly the sector's.
Nobody is named. The token's site and socials disclose no team, RugCheck records no creator wallet, and Wikipedia's Popcat article covers the meme and the game without mentioning the token. The cat's owner and the three students who built popcat.click have no connection to it. That anonymity is common for 2023-era Solana memecoins and means there is no team to dump tokens and no team to build anything.
A price of $0.25 on roughly 980 million tokens implies a market cap near $245 million, about four times the level at capture in September 2026, roughly WIF's size, and still an eighth of the November 2024 all-time high of $2.05. It would take a new Solana memecoin cycle that favors the established 2024 names, a major listing catalyst such as Binance spot, and the largest holders not selling into the move. This is not a prediction or financial advice.
Age and survival. Most Solana memecoins die within weeks; POPCAT has traded for nearly three years, holds listings on Coinbase, Kraken, and Bybit, keeps more than $5 million of on-chain liquidity with the main pools' liquidity tokens burned, and has already completed a full boom-and-bust cycle. That makes it more liquid and better known than a fresh launch, and it also means the easy part of its story is over.
Pricing information is provided for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. Market data is provided by third parties and Phantom makes no representation as to the accuracy of the information.
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