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MoonCats(🐱)

Token
0x60cd862c9c68...b74a4fc54ab6
Spurious DragonContract #94KSource VerifiedEdit this contract
Deployed August 9, 2017 (8 years ago)Block 4,134,866

The original MoonCatRescue smart contract that enabled the on-chain discovery and ownership of MoonCats on Ethereum.

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Historical Significance

MoonCatRescue is one of the earliest user-discoverable blockchain collectibles on Ethereum and among the first projects to combine on-chain generation, fair discovery mechanics, immutable traits, and ownership of unique digital assets. It demonstrates an early approach to non-fungible ownership before standardized NFT interfaces existed and before the term “NFT” was in widespread use.

Context

When MoonCatRescue was deployed in 2017, Ethereum did not yet have a standard for non-fungible tokens. Developers relied on custom contract designs to represent unique assets, often adapting patterns from ERC-20 while introducing new logic for uniqueness, discovery, and transfer. MoonCatRescue emerged during this formative period alongside other early digital collectible experiments.

Over time, the MoonCatRescue community developed additional smart contracts to extend the ecosystem while preserving compatibility with the original contract. These later additions include ERC-721 wrapper contracts, on-chain trait parsers, SVG renderers, accessory systems, and name services, enabling MoonCats to interact with modern NFT infrastructure while maintaining their original on-chain data and provenance.

Token Information
Logo
MoonCats logo
via RPC
Token Name
MoonCats
Symbol
🐱
Decimals
0
Key Facts
Deployment Block
4,134,866
Deployment Date
Aug 9, 2017, 04:36 AM
Code Size
9.9 KB
Gas at Deploy
2,904,530
Transactions by YearPartial (capped)
20174,096
20182,596
201974
20203
202143,231

Description

The contract defines a finite space of MoonCats identified by unique five-byte hexadecimal identifiers. Each identifier deterministically encodes a MoonCat’s visual traits, including pose, facial expression, fur pattern, and color. These identifiers are permanently stored in the contract at the time of rescue and cannot be modified.

MoonCats may be named once by their owner, with the name immutably recorded on-chain. The contract also includes a built-in adoption marketplace, allowing owners to create adoption offers and prospective adopters to submit adoption requests, either publicly or for a specific address.

While the original design allowed for 25,600 MoonCats, some genesis MoonCats were never released. The final collection size is 25,440 MoonCats.

MoonCatRescue is an Ethereum smart contract deployed on August 9, 2017. It introduced a system for discovering and rescuing uniquely identified MoonCats onto the Ethereum blockchain, with ownership, identifiers, names, and marketplace activity recorded entirely on-chain. The contract predates the ERC-721 standard and implements custom ownership and transfer logic for non-fungible assets.

Source Verified

Etherscan verified
Heuristic Analysis

The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.

Detected Type: Token

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes10,126
Unique Opcodes252
Jump Instructions442
Storage Operations248

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