Pre-launch test contract deployed by the CryptoCats team on November 11, 2017, the day before the official CryptoCats launch on Ethereum mainnet.
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Description
CryptoCats Test Contract 1 was the first of two experimental deployments by the CryptoCats team on November 11, 2017, at block 4,530,388. It was deployed by address 0x0003b2f7... approximately six hours before Test Contract 2 (block 4,532,036).
The CryptoCats project was created by an Australian team — Gendry Morales, Nas Munawar, and Jochy Reyes — operating under the name TheTwentySix. The official CryptoCats launch (12 original cats) came on November 12, 2017, making these test contracts the day-before predecessors.
The contract code is structurally identical to the official CryptoCatsMarket contract (0x088C6Ad962812b5Aa905BA6F3c5c145f9D4C079f), featuring an image hash, cat ownership mappings, and a marketplace. The two test contracts reportedly differed in the cat pricing: one set at 0.08 ETH and the other at 0.8 ETH.
Both test contracts were rediscovered by NFT archaeologists in March 2021 during the broader early-NFT mania. The rediscovery triggered a rush to claim unclaimed cats from these "disowned" contracts, generating over 200 ETH in trading volume. The official CryptoCats team disavowed the test contracts, calling them buggy, but the community embraced them and built an independent marketplace (CryptoCats Reborn / CryptoCatsListings.com).
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