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Wrapped Basic CryptoKitties(WCK)

0x09fe5f0236f0...d77b04128075
ConstantinopleSource VerifiedEdit this contract
Deployed May 31, 2019 (7 years ago)Block 7,864,426

An ERC20 token backed one for one by CryptoKitties locked in the contract, so a shelf of kitties could trade as a fungible asset.

Constantinople EraVerified Source

Historical Significance

CryptoKitties was the contract that taught Ethereum what congestion felt like, and WCK is the market's answer to the problem that made kitties hard to trade at all. Every kitty is unique, so every sale needed a buyer who wanted that specific animal. Wrapping discards the individuality on purpose and buys liquidity with it. The pattern of holding NFTs in escrow against a fungible claim became the basis of the NFT index funds and floor tokens that followed years later.

Context

Deployed with solc 0.5.8 and verified on Sourcify as WrappedCK. It arrived after the 2017 mania had cooled, when thousands of kitties sat in wallets with no bid, and it treated them as an inventory rather than as pets. Reading the supply against the holdings is the whole audit: if the two numbers separate, the peg is broken.

Token Information
Logo
Wrapped Basic CryptoKitties logo
via RPC
Token Name
Wrapped Basic CryptoKitties
Symbol
WCK
Decimals
18
Key Facts
Deployment Block
7,864,426
Deployment Date
May 31, 2019, 01:41 AM
Code Size
9.0 KB
Transactions by Year
20194,916
20207,401
20212,538
20221,266
2023179
20247,029
20254,466
20263,617

Description

WrappedCK takes a CryptoKitty, holds it, and issues one WCK in return. Any WCK holder can burn a token and pull an arbitrary kitty back out. The effect is to convert a collection of individually priced animals into a single fungible unit that an exchange or an automated market maker can quote, which the ERC721 original could not do. The contract currently holds 72,393 kitties against 72,375 WCK in circulation, and its verified source names KittyCore directly. The same address also appears as a hardcoded constant in the deployed bytecode.

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes9,229
Unique Opcodes233
Jump Instructions321
Storage Operations83

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