You can buy Cat in a Dogs World two ways on LeveX: the MEW/USDT spot pair for direct ownership of the token, or MEW perpetual futures for leveraged exposure in either direction. Both take a funded account and a few clicks, and this guide walks through each one.
MEW is a Solana memecoin built around a cat character living in a city run by dogs. It launched in March 2024, reached a $900 million market capitalization within days, and has since fallen back to roughly $30 million as of August 2026. It is a volatile, thin-liquidity asset, so read the risk notes at the end before committing size.
What Is MEW?
MEW is the token of Cat in a Dogs World, a Solana project centered on original cat-themed intellectual property rather than a borrowed meme image. The story world features a cat surviving among rats in a dog-controlled city, with a fictional dog corporation called SHIBEX as the antagonist. That framing is what made MEW the token credited with starting the 2024 "cat season," the period covered in the cat coins versus dog coins breakdown.
The supply structure is unusually simple. All 88,888,888,888 tokens were distributed at launch, roughly 90% into a liquidity pool whose LP tokens were burned and 10% airdropped to Solana wallets, with nothing reserved for the team. There is no vesting, no inflation and no staking, as the MEW tokenomics analysis sets out in full.
What separates MEW from most memecoins is that the project owns its character and has partnered with an animation studio to build a 3D series around it, a plan explained in the piece on MEW's animated series and IP strategy.
Buying MEW on the Spot Market
Spot buying gives you the token outright, with no liquidation risk and no funding costs. Use this route if you want to hold.
- Create and verify your account. Register on LeveX and complete verification. The getting started guide covers the process end to end.
- Fund the account. Deposit crypto or buy USDT directly. If you are arriving with a different asset, the Convert tool swaps it to USDT without touching an order book.
- Open the MEW pair. Go to MEW/USDT spot trading.
- Choose your order type. Market orders fill instantly. Limit orders let you set your price, which matters here: MEW's order book is thin, so a large market order can move the fill against you by several percent. New traders can follow the walkthrough on placing a first spot trade.
- Enter the amount and confirm. Review the estimated fill and submit. The MEW appears in your spot wallet once the order executes.
If you plan to hold for the long term rather than trade, move the position off the exchange afterwards. The guide to MEW wallet options covers Solana wallets and hardware storage.
Trading MEW Perpetual Futures
Perpetual futures let you go long or short with leverage and no expiry date. They also carry liquidation risk, which on a token as volatile as MEW arrives faster than most traders expect.
- Move funds to your futures wallet. Use the transfer between spot and futures wallets function.
- Open the contract. Head to MEW perpetual futures.
- Set leverage and margin mode. Start low. High leverage on a thin-liquidity memecoin liquidates on ordinary intraday moves.
- Pick a direction and size the position. Long if you expect the price to rise, short if you expect it to fall. The scenarios in the MEW price forecast are a useful reference when framing either view.
- Set stop-loss and take-profit levels. Do this when you open the trade, using the guide to stop-loss and take-profit orders. Closing a position is covered in the walkthrough on closing a futures position.
Full mechanics, including funding rates and margin requirements, are in the guide to opening a futures position.
Why Trade MEW on LeveX
Both markets sit under one account, so you can hold a spot position and hedge it with a short futures position without moving assets between platforms. Multi-Trade mode goes further, allowing several independent positions on the same pair, each with its own leverage, margin and exit levels. On a token that swings as hard as MEW, running a short-term trade alongside a longer-held position without one closing the other is practical rather than theoretical.
LeveX also verifies reserves 1:1 through a Merkle tree proof and holds an "A" security rating from CER.live. For traders weighing MEW against the other major cat token, the MEW versus Popcat comparison covers how the two differ on liquidity and brand assets before you decide which to fund.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the minimum amount of MEW I can buy?
The minimum is set by the pair's minimum order value rather than by a token quantity, so a small USDT amount is enough to open a position. Because MEW trades in fractions of a cent, even a modest order buys a large number of tokens.
Can I buy MEW with a credit card?
You can fund your account with fiat through the Buy Crypto flow, then swap to USDT and buy MEW on the spot pair. There is no direct card purchase of MEW itself, so the route runs through a stablecoin.
Is MEW available for both spot and futures trading?
Yes. MEW trades as a MEW/USDT spot pair and as a USDT-margined perpetual contract, so you can hold the token directly or take leveraged long and short positions on the same account.
How risky is MEW compared to larger tokens?
Substantially riskier. MEW has no revenue, no yield and thin order book depth, so price moves are sharp in both directions and exits carry slippage. The full risk framework sits in the analysis of whether MEW is worth owning.
Getting Started With MEW the Sensible Way
Buying MEW takes minutes. Deciding how much to buy deserves longer, because a memecoin trading near its all-time low can keep making new ones, and total loss is a realistic outcome for any token in this category.
The practical approach is to use limit orders rather than market orders, keep leverage low or skip it entirely, set your exit levels when you open the position rather than afterwards, and move anything you intend to hold long term into self-custody.
Ready to trade? Open the MEW spot market to buy and hold, or take a leveraged view on MEW perpetual futures. For deeper background on this and other tokens, browse Crypto in a Minute.