When most people picture cryptocurrency, they picture trading screens, not rescue kennels. The team behind Boba Cat Society is rewriting that picture one shelter visit at a time, and dogs, not just cats, have become some of the biggest beneficiaries.
Boba Cat began as a small community of crypto holders inspired by a real grey tabby kitten adopted by Billy Markus, the co-creator of Dogecoin. What started as an internet in-joke quickly turned into something the founders did not expect: a working philanthropic engine. To date, the project has channelled more than $80,000 in cash and supplies into pet shelters across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and the cadence of giving keeps accelerating.
More Dogs Than the Name Suggests
Despite the cat mascot, dog welfare sits at the heart of much of Boba Cat Society’s work. Of the dozen-plus shelters the team has supported, the majority house mixed populations where stray and abandoned dogs make up the larger share. The project has helped fund kennel repairs, veterinary care, food deliveries, and emergency winter supplies at facilities in Turkey, Latvia, Spain, and France.
The most recent campaign took place in France in early 2025, when a €10,000 donation was selected by community vote and personally delivered by team members to a regional rescue chosen through an influencer-led nomination round. Dozens of dogs at the facility received new bedding, vaccinations, and food stocks that the shelter said would carry it through the winter.
A separate campaign in Ankara, Turkey saw the team coordinate the delivery of roughly $10,000 worth of essential supplies — including food, blankets, and medical kits — to a shelter the project has now visited eight times. Local volunteers there have credited the recurring partnership with helping them avoid forced closures during difficult months.
A Viral RC Car That Feeds Strays
Boba Cat Society’s most surprising contribution to the rescue world has not been a cheque. It has been a remote-controlled car.
In late 2024, the team began producing short-form videos featuring a small RC vehicle that drives up to street dogs and cats and delivers food directly to them. The clips, posted across the project’s YouTube channel (now home to a community of more than 5,000 subscribers) and TikTok, have amassed over 10 million combined views. For many viewers it is the first time they have seen a crypto-funded project producing visible, on-the-ground welfare work, and rescue groups in three countries have used the videos to highlight the scale of street animal populations in their regions.
Beyond awareness, the series has driven a measurable rise in shelter referrals and small donation volume to partner organisations the team links in its captions.
Building Infrastructure for Transparent Giving
Charitable crypto projects often struggle with trust. Boba Cat’s response has been to publish everything. The new bobacat.io site, relaunched in May 2025, includes a dedicated charity tracker showing donation history, recipient shelters, and on-site video documentation from each visit. Decisions about which shelter receives the next donation are made by token holders through DAO votes, and the project recently secured a Google Ad Grant to extend the reach of its campaigns at no cost to the donation pool.
To strengthen its operational backbone, the team also partnered with The Giving Block, a leading platform for crypto philanthropy that handles compliance and direct disbursement to vetted nonprofits. The partnership means contributions can move from community wallet to shelter bank account with a paper trail at every step.
A Community That Acts Like a Charity
What makes Boba Cat Society unusual is not the donations themselves. Plenty of crypto projects make headlines with one-off cheques. It is the rhythm. Shelter visits happen on a recurring schedule. Updates are documented in long-form essays on the project’s Medium publication. And conversations about which animals to help next happen daily on the project’s Telegram community, where holders, volunteers, and shelter contacts coordinate in the open.
The community calls itself “BobaFam,” and in practice it functions less like a token trading group and more like a distributed welfare network. Members in different countries volunteer to scout local shelters, translate, drive supplies, and film visits. The model has caught the attention of other meme token projects looking to add a charitable dimension to their roadmaps, and Boba Cat has begun offering informal guidance to several of them.
What Comes Next
For 2026, Boba Cat Society has signalled plans to expand into more shelter partnerships across Western Europe and the Americas, double the output of the RC car video series, and roll out a structured volunteer ambassador programme. The goal, according to the team, is straightforward: turn meme-driven momentum into the kind of recurring, transparent giving that animal welfare organisations can actually plan around.
It is a strange path from internet cat memes to dog kennels in southern France. But by every measure that matters to the animals on the receiving end, it is working.