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Unicorn Meat(w🍖)

Token
0xdfa208bb0b81...7aa86180e668
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Deployed July 15, 2025 (9 months ago)Block 22,924,879

A modern ERC-20 wrapper for the original 2016 Unicorn Meat token, created by Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation. Fixed supply of 100M after contract o

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Historical Significance

Unicorn Meat holds multiple firsts in Ethereum history: one of the earliest demonstrations of token mutation (converting one token type into another), an early implementation of quadratic voting governance on-chain, and one of the first on-chain DEX demonstrations. It was created by an Ethereum Foundation team member and predates ERC-20. The 2025 takeover via DAO proposal - using the exact same governance mechanism Piper Merriam used in 2016 - and subsequent minting and renouncement transformed a dormant meme experiment into a fixed-supply tradeable asset, connecting Ethereum's earliest community culture to the modern DeFi ecosystem.

Token Information
Logo
Unicorn Meat logo
via RPC
Token Name
Unicorn Meat
Symbol
w🍖
Decimals
3
Key Facts
Deployment Block
22,924,879
Deployment Date
Jul 15, 2025, 01:28 PM
Code Size
4.4 KB
Gas at Deploy
1,106,306
Transactions by Year
2025786
202620

Description

Wrapped Unicorn Meat (w🍖) is an ERC-20 wrapper for the original Unicorn Meat (🍖) contract deployed by Alex Van de Sande (avsa) in March 2016. The original Meat contract predates the ERC-20 standard and is incompatible with modern exchanges - w🍖 wraps it 1:1, making it freely tradable on Uniswap and CoW Swap on both Ethereum mainnet and Base.

The full history: In February 2016, the Ethereum Foundation created Unicorns (🦄) as a token offered in exchange for ETH donations to the Foundation tip jar. A month later, avsa deployed the Unicorn Meat token and the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association - a DAO using quadratic voting that let Unicorn holders grind their tokens into Meat. In 2016, Piper Merriam passed a governance proposal through the Association to take control of the Meat contract and withdrew 5 ETH from it.

The Grinder Association and Meat contract then sat dormant for years - 23 txs total, last in 2017. In July 2025, webtrue.eth passed a new proposal through the same DAO mechanism to transfer Meat contract ownership. The new owner minted 100 million Unicorn Meat tokens, then renounced ownership permanently. Because the Grinder Association is no longer the Meat contract owner, the grindUnicorns() function can no longer mint new tokens - supply is now fixed at 100M. Renouncing also ensures no future minting is possible.

On August 2, 2025, 10% of the total supply was airdropped: 3% to the seven historic Unicorn grinders, 7% to Unicorn holders proportional to their holdings. The remaining supply was allocated to liquidity (40% Ethereum, 20% Base), treasury (20%), community rewards (10%), and team.

w🍖 trades on Uniswap V3 on Ethereum mainnet (0xC3b9903F, $178K liquidity) and Base (0xb9Ce62Df, $75K liquidity), both at a 1% fee tier. 1% of trading fees supports EthereumHistory.com.

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Heuristic Analysis

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

Detected Type: Token

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes4,511
Unique Opcodes241
Jump Instructions262
Storage Operations38

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