Cash Cat (CASHCAT) is a meme coin on Robinhood Chain, the Arbitrum-stack Layer 2 built by the brokerage Robinhood. It is an ERC-20 token with a fixed supply of one billion units and no mechanical utility beyond its own community. Search interest climbed after Robinhood listed the token for trading and the price rose sharply through the second half of August 2026.
The name is the whole story, and the name is also where people get hurt. At least ten separate contracts on this one chain answer to "Cash Cat", and only one of them is the token that actually trades.
Cash Cat at a Glance
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Token name
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Cash Cat
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Ticker
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CASHCAT
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Blockchain
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Robinhood Chain, EVM chain ID 4663, an Arbitrum-stack Layer 2 that pays gas in ETH
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Contract address
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`0x020bfC650A365f8BB26819deAAbF3E21291018b4`
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Token standard
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ERC-20 with 18 decimals. The ERC-721 interface check reverts, so it is not an NFT contract
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Total supply
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1,000,000,000 exactly, and minting is not possible
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Burned supply
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About 11.66 million tokens sit at the burn address, roughly 1.166% of supply, and the number keeps rising
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Launch
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Thursday 18 June 2026 at 20:01:25 UTC, block 88,836. Token and first pool went live in one transaction
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Core narrative
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The name Robinhood considered and discarded, revived as a community meme coin on the company's own chain
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Token type
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Meme coin. No staking, no fee share, no governance, no revenue
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Robinhood relationship
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Listed for trading, not created, endorsed or affiliated
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Primary risks
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Same-name decoy contracts, holder concentration, thin-book price discovery, zero utility
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Availability on Phemex
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There is no CASHCAT perpetual futures contract on Phemex. Phemex publishes a spot-buying guide, and leveraged exposure has to be expressed through a listed market such as BTC-USDT
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What Is Cash Cat?
Cash Cat is a community token built on a piece of corporate trivia. Before the brokerage settled on the name Robinhood, "Cash Cat" was one of the candidates on the table, and it was dropped. Anonymous builders on Robinhood's own Layer 2 revived it as a mascot token, and we covered how the rejected Robinhood name became a token when the market capitalisation first crossed nine figures.
The project makes no product claim at all. Its own site describes the token as "fan fiction with a ticker" and states plainly that it is "Not affiliated with Robinhood Markets, Inc." That self-description is more accurate than most crypto documentation, and it is the correct frame for a reader trying to work out what they would be buying.
Robinhood listed CASHCAT for trading, reported on Thursday 6 August 2026. Robinhood did not create, endorse or affiliate with it. Listed, not endorsed, and the difference matters because a listing is a venue decision about tradeable demand while an endorsement would be a statement about the asset. Nobody at the company has made the second kind of statement.
That places Cash Cat in the same family as the tokens in our guide to memecoin history and categories, with one twist. Most meme coins borrow their culture from the internet, and this one borrows it from the founding paperwork of a listed brokerage that has said nothing about it.
Why Did CASHCAT Become Popular?
Three things stacked in the same six weeks, and the price series shows the result. Cash Cat closed Saturday 25 July at $0.05281 and closed Monday 24 August at $0.19487, a gain of 269.0% measured close to close on aggregate pricing.
A second reading on a different basis puts the same window at 277.8%, taken from daily candles on the deepest pool with full history rather than from an aggregate across every venue. The 8.8 percentage point gap is a basis disagreement rather than noise, because one number describes every pool together and the other describes a single one.
The first driver was the listing. Access through a mainstream brokerage app reaches an audience that has never opened a decentralised exchange, and that audience arrived with the name already familiar to it.
The second was the venue itself. Robinhood Chain has become the home of a small cluster of community tokens, and Pons, the chain's largest token launchpad, turned that cluster into a repeatable pipeline. Traders who found one token on the chain went looking for the next one.
The third is the oldest force in this corner of the market. A story people can repeat in one sentence spreads faster than a protocol with a whitepaper, and "the name Robinhood threw away" is a one-sentence story.
How Does the CASHCAT Token Work?
It does very little, and that is verifiable rather than a matter of opinion. Four direct calls against a Robinhood Chain node at 09:05 UTC on Tuesday 25 August returned the mechanical picture in full.
decimals() returns 18 and totalSupply() returns exactly 1,000,000,000 tokens with no rounding. owner() reverts, meaning there is no owner function for anyone to seize control through, and supportsInterface(0x80ac58cd) reverts as well, which rules out the ERC-721 standard and confirms the contract is fungible rather than an NFT collection wearing the same name.Because minting is impossible, market capitalisation and fully diluted valuation are the same figure here, and supply only moves in one direction. A
balanceOf call on the standard burn address returned 11,660,089.677 CASHCAT at that same pull, leaving 988,339,910.32 tokens outside it. The burn count climbs slowly and continuously, so any exact figure quoted anywhere is a snapshot rather than a constant.One qualifier belongs here. A vesting contract holds about 1.37% of supply, so calling the float "fully circulating" is imprecise even though the number outside the burn address is close to the total. Holders sit at 79,553 on the chain explorer against 80,244 on the GeckoTerminal token page, a spread of 691 wallets or 0.87%, which is tight enough to treat roughly 80,000 as the real number.
Cash Cat vs Bitcoin
Readers reach for this comparison constantly, usually to work out where a token like this belongs in a portfolio.
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Cash Cat
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Bitcoin
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Main identity
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Community meme coin named after a discarded brand
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Monetary network and settlement asset
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Blockchain
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Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-stack Layer 2 launched in 2026
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Its own Layer 1, live since 2009
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Core value driver
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Attention, venue access and community momentum
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Fixed issuance, security budget and institutional adoption
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Supply model
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1,000,000,000 fixed, minting impossible, slow ongoing burn
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21,000,000 cap, issuance halving roughly every four years
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Market maturity
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Weeks of trading history on a chain measured in months
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Sixteen years of continuous price history across multiple cycles
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Risk profile
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Total loss is a realistic outcome
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Deep drawdowns are normal, permanent zero is not the base case
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Derivatives access
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No Phemex perpetual contract
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Deep perpetual and spot markets
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The risk row is the one that matters. Bitcoin has survived several drawdowns above 70% and recovered each time, and no meme coin has a track record long enough to make that claim. Treating the two as the same kind of holding is the most common portfolio error in this category.
What Can Move the CASHCAT Price?
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Venue access
The August listing showed what a distribution change does to a token this size, and any further widening or narrowing of access moves the same lever. Access rather than fundamentals is the dominant variable for an asset with no cash flows.
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Robinhood Chain activity
Volume on the chain concentrates into a handful of names at a time. When attention rotates toward a newer launch the older tokens tend to give back gains, and the chain's total decentralised exchange volume is the number to watch rather than any single token's chart.
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Liquidity depth in the pools that carry the flow
Twenty pools quote this token and three of them carry almost all the volume. Depth in those three decides how much size the book absorbs before the price moves, so a change in depth changes the cost of every order that follows.
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The burn rate
Supply falls continuously and the pace is not fixed. A faster burn is a slow tailwind rather than a catalyst, but over months it changes the denominator that every valuation is measured against.
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Broad meme-coin risk appetite
Meme coins move together far more than their individual stories suggest, and when appetite for the category cools, correlation across unrelated tokens rises sharply enough that individual narratives stop mattering for weeks.
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Concentration among large wallets
The top ten wallets hold 19.21% of supply. That is not extreme for a token of this age, and it is still enough that a single decision by one of those holders shows up in the price.
Risks of Buying or Trading Cash Cat
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The same-name decoy field
This is the risk that costs readers money fastest. A name search on the chain explorer returns more than ten tokens calling themselves "Cash Cat" or CASHCAT, and there is also a Solana name-squat whose pool was created at 05:03 UTC on Tuesday 25 August and which paid for promoted placement on a chart aggregator. Paid promotion is a purchase, not a credential. We documented the same pattern in detail when we wrote about how to verify the Basecat token on Base.
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Clean scanner results do not identify the canonical contract
The canonical token passes every automated check across three separate scanners. Honeypot flag zero, buy and sell tax zero, mintable zero, pausable zero, blacklist zero, hidden owner zero, self-destruct zero, source code open, creator holding 0.000002%. Every one of those results is necessary and none of them is sufficient, because a well-built decoy passes the identical checks. Null authorities prove a token cannot be inflated or frozen, and they prove nothing at all about which contract people are actually trading.
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Liquidity rankings point at the wrong contract
Sorting a token list by liquidity is the intuitive move and it is the wrong one, because a decoy can post a large reported pool that never trades and displayed depth costs a deployer almost nothing to fabricate. Volume and holder count are the discriminators a squatter cannot cheaply buy.
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No utility means no floor
There is no revenue, no fee share, no staking yield and no team obligation to deliver anything. Price is entirely a function of what the next buyer will pay, with no cash flow underneath it to argue for a valuation once attention leaves.
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Concentration and the vesting contract
Nineteen percent of supply in ten wallets plus 1.37% in a vesting contract means a meaningful share of the float sits with parties whose intentions are unpublished. None of that is hidden and none of it is unusual for a token of this age, and it still has to be priced rather than ignored.
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Percentage figures decay faster than they travel
A rolling twenty-four hour gain on a token this young can move by hundreds of percentage points inside one session, and the figure keeps circulating long after it stopped being true. Anchor every performance claim to two dated closes, which is why the 269.0% figure above carries both of its endpoints.
How to Research Cash Cat Safely
Run these five checks in order, and run them every time rather than once.
Sort by volume and holders, never by liquidity. The canonical contract wins decisively on both of those measures and loses to at least one decoy on displayed liquidity. That single reordering resolves most impersonation cases on its own.
Check the pool creation date. A pool only hours old behind a token that claims months of trading history is a squat. The canonical Cash Cat pool and the token contract were created in the same transaction on Thursday 18 June 2026, which anyone can confirm from the block record rather than from a chart page.
Read the authority flags, then keep going. Confirm that minting, pausing and ownership are all disabled, then treat that result as a floor rather than a verdict, because every serious decoy on this chain clears exactly the same bar.
Compare two independent feeds before trusting a number. Twenty-four hour decentralised exchange volume on a Tuesday 25 August pull came to $68,744,746 on GeckoTerminal against $68,042,658 on DexScreener, a spread of 1.03% on the same like-for-like basis. A gap that small is agreement, while a gap of thirty percent means the two sources are measuring different things and both should be set aside until you work out which.
Confirm the address in two places that do not copy each other. A block explorer record and the project's own published address are independent, while a chart URL and a social post are not. Pool addresses circulate far more widely than token addresses, because chart links are built on pools. CoinGecko's Cash Cat page and the DexScreener page for the deepest pool both carry the contract, and the chain's own parameters are published in Robinhood's chain documentation.
Is Cash Cat a Good Investment?
The honest answer is that it is a speculation on attention rather than an investment in anything, and it should be sized as one. Nothing here converts adoption into token value. What exists is a fixed supply, a slowly shrinking float, roughly 80,000 holders and a story people can retell.
That combination has produced real returns for people who were early and real losses for people who arrived late, which is the standard distribution of outcomes in this category and shows up in every meme cycle, including the Solana names covered in our piece on The Black Bull (ANSEM).
What a reader can control is position size and the address. Size decides how much a total loss costs, and total loss is a realistic outcome for any token with these characteristics. The address decides something more immediate, because pasting the wrong contract into a wallet turns a small speculative position into a complete one instantly. If you decide to buy, Phemex's How to Buy Cash Cat guide covers the mechanics, and traders who want leverage on the same directional idea generally express it through majors, since no CASHCAT perpetual contract exists.
Final Thoughts
Three numbers define this token and none of them is a price. Supply is fixed at one billion with minting impossible, so the denominator can only shrink, and holders sit near 80,000 across two feeds that agree to within 0.87%. More than ten contracts on one chain share the name, which makes address verification the single highest-value action a buyer takes.
Watch decentralised exchange volume on Robinhood Chain rather than the CASHCAT chart, because attention there rotates between a handful of names and the rotation reaches aggregate volume before it reaches any individual token. Watch depth in the three pools carrying the flow, since that sets how far a real exit moves the price.
And remember what the project itself says. Fan fiction with a ticker, not affiliated with Robinhood Markets. The builders were more candid about what this is than most of the people buying it have been.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the real Cash Cat contract address?
The canonical token is
0x020bfC650A365f8BB26819deAAbF3E21291018b4 on Robinhood Chain, an ERC-20 with 18 decimals and a one billion supply. Confirm it against a block explorer token record and against the project's own published address before sending anything, because more than ten contracts on that chain use the same name.Does Robinhood own or run Cash Cat?
No, and that distinction is worth stating carefully rather than in passing. Robinhood listed CASHCAT for trading, reported on Thursday 6 August 2026, and the company did not create, endorse or affiliate with it. The token was deployed by an independent community on the chain Robinhood built, and the project's own site carries the non-affiliation statement.
Can you trade CASHCAT with leverage on Phemex?
Phemex lists no CASHCAT perpetual futures contract, so leverage on this specific token is not available there. Traders who want leveraged exposure to the same directional view typically use a liquid major such as BTC-USDT instead, which carries market risk but none of the address risk described above.
Why do different sites show different Cash Cat market caps?
Because they use different supply bases and different pool coverage. Some aggregate every venue and some read a single pool, and a token whose supply falls continuously through burning gives each provider a slightly different denominator. Compare two feeds and work out which basis each is using before quoting either.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Cryptocurrency trading involves substantial risk. Always conduct your own research before making trading decisions.
