$SCAT went from a 146k market cap to 260k today, and almost half of that move had nothing to do with people buying SCAT. SCAT is priced in $STRK, Starknet's coin, the way something overseas might be priced in another country's money. If that money gets stronger, the same item is worth more dollars, even if the price tag never changes. Today both things happened at once. People bought SCAT, which raised its price tag in STRK, and STRK itself went up about 25%. About 60% of SCAT's jump came from buyers and about 40% came from STRK going up underneath it. SCAT is still small, so a few thousand dollars of buying can move it a lot. To make it easy to picture, imagine nobody buys or sells SCAT at all and only STRK moves. If STRK doubles, SCAT doubles with it, from about 250k to around 500k, without a single new buyer. And holders get paid in STRK, so the same move that lifts SCAT also makes every payout worth more. You win on the price and on the rewards. That part reaches past Solana. There are STRK holders sitting over on Ethereum and Starknet who've never touched a meme coin. Once they see a cat on Solana paying out their own coin every time it trades, some of them are going to come over and buy it just to collect the rewards, and switching networks is easy now. That's a whole new source of buy pressure that most small coins never get. Picture it bigger. @Starknet is worth about $688M and Zcash is worth about $20B. If STRK ever grew to Zcash's size, that's roughly 29x, and in the same picture SCAT would be heading toward a 7.3M market cap with nobody buying it at all. That's just the frozen version, but it shows why the pairing matters once you put it in real terms. An asset pushing up underneath you raises the floor on its own, so every buyer who shows up is adding on top of a price that's already climbing. The STRK payouts get bigger as it goes. Pressure from below plus buyers on top is how small coins make big moves. There's a real reason people are watching STRK. Starknet is building privacy, protection against quantum computers and a way to bring Bitcoin in, and it's doing all three right now. It's also exploring becoming its own main chain, and the market tends to pay a lot more attention to those. The cat keeps showing up at the center of these networks. On Zcash, $ZCAT became the meme that carried the privacy run, launching on the same platform six weeks before SCAT and climbing to about a 186M market cap. On Starknet the cat goes even deeper. It's been their mascot since 2023, CAT is the Bitcoin upgrade they've spent years pushing for, and a CAT theorem sits inside the math behind their proofs. SCAT just hit its high today, around 275k, so the gap between the two cats is still enormous. I think privacy and quantum are going to be two of the biggest topics in crypto for the next 24 months, and the cat is attached to both of them. You don't often find a story that large sitting behind a coin this small. Real life is messier than the picture. People buy and sell every move, and if the crowd gets excited about SCAT, it can run past what the math says. It works the other way too. If STRK drops, SCAT drops with it. I'm locked IN on this cat here. 🐈 If you want the full history of why the cat matters, our article is below.