MoonCats

Basics

• Based in: 2017
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• NFT project pre-dating CryptoKitties

History

• From The Defiant (17-3-2021):

"Long, long ago, four billion MoonCats were lost in space. The digital cats were doomed to languish in the wasteland of forgotten blockchain projects —until now. If you’ve followed OpenSea’s NFT ranking list over the past few days, you may have noticed a new, mysterious project called “Wrapped MoonCatsRescue” taking the chart by storm.

Back in 2017, shortly after the advent of the first NFT art project, CryptoPunks, but before CryptoKitties unleashed an unprecedented Ethereum-based mania, two developers calling themselves “Ponderware” set out to create blockchain-collectible cats. Their project was called MoonCatRescue. Only 25,600 MoonCats could be brought onto the chain, so “searching for” (or generating) a MoonCat didn’t necessarily mean that cat would be brought into a contract.

The developers’ only attempt to monetize came in the form of “Genesis Cats”—256 unique black or white MoonCats which would be sold directly to users in very limited batches. Unfortunately, the developers ran into a bug which made the funds from these sales inaccessible.

Recently, a Twitter user going by “tilopa” wrote: “can anyone confirm that https://mooncatrescue.com predates cryptocats? looks like a very early og nft that you can still mint but the ui is broken so you have to interact with the contract directly.”

This was all it took to set off the latest NFT gold rush. Within three hours, the limit of 25,600 on-chain MoonCats had been reached. During this time, users paid nearly $600k USD in gas fees for MoonCat rescues."

Technology

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Implementations

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Roadmap

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Audits

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Usage

• From The Defiant (17-3-2021):

"With a seven-day trading volume of 5k ETH, Wrapped MoonCatsRescue is currently second only to CryptoPunks (25.8k ETH) in the weekly ranking, beating out popular NFT mainstays like Rarible, Sorare, and Beeple."

Team, Funding, Partnerships, etc.

Team

• Full team can be found [here].

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