Provenance
A discarded 2010 startup name, an Ethereum L2 launched in 2026, and a community that put the two together. Every claim below links to its source.
2010
Before it was Robinhood, Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt's startup had a working name: CashCat, with a mascot cat clutching a fistful of money. They dropped it for something with more stature, and the cat went in a drawer for sixteen years.
July 1, 2026
Robinhood launched Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum L2. Within days an anonymous community deployed the discarded name on that exact chain. It became the network's first breakout token — the brand's own rejected mascot, running on the brand's own infrastructure, owned by nobody in particular.
August 6, 2026
Robinhood listed CASHCAT in its own app and on Robinhood Legend: the first memecoin born on Robinhood Chain to reach that retail audience.
Optimisus — Robinhood listed the memecoin named after the brand it rejected
Today
A fixed 1,000,000,000 supply on Robinhood Chain at
0x020bfC650A365f8BB26819deAAbF3E21291018b4, with no affiliation with, endorsement by, or
ownership by Robinhood Markets, Inc. It is a community memecoin that shares a
discarded name and nothing else.
The cat came back. Now it has a command line.
