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Unicorn Meat(🍖)

Token
0xed6ac8de7c7c...2a1232ddef9a
HomesteadSource Verified
Deployed March 25, 2016 (9 years ago)Block 1,211,142

A historic 2016 memecoin created by Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation to pioneer token swaps and upgrades.

Token Information

Logo
Unicorn Meat logo
via RPC
Token Name
Unicorn Meat
Symbol
🍖
Decimals
3

Key Facts

Deployment Block
1,211,142
Deployment Date
Mar 25, 2016, 02:48 AM
Code Size
1.9 KB
Transactions by Year
20167
20212
20259

Description

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Launched in March 2016 as a playful experiment combining a token, a “grinder” mechanism (convert one token into another), and a proposal/voting system. The experiment famously demonstrated governance risk when control of the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association was taken via proposal shortly after launch; in 2025, control of the Unicorn Meat token was taken, supply was fixed at 100M, and the contract was renounced and wrapped for modern compatibility.

Unicorn Meat was introduced as an on-chain April Fool’s–style experiment: Unicorn holders could use the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association contract to “grind” Unicorns into Unicorn Meat, and governance/proposals could change how the system worked. Years later, the contract was claimed via the same governance path; 100M tokens were minted and the contract renounced, and wrapping was introduced to make it tradable on modern platforms.

Heuristic Analysis

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

Detected Type: Token
Has ERC-20-like patterns

Homestead Era

The first planned hard fork. Removed the canary contract, adjusted gas costs.

Block span: 1,150,000 — 1,919,999
March 14, 2016 — July 20, 2016

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes1,950
Unique Opcodes157
Jump Instructions98
Storage Operations55

Verified Source Available

This contract has verified source code on Etherscan.

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