A historic 2016 memecoin created by Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation to pioneer token swaps and upgrades.
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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.
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Homestead Era
The first planned hard fork. Removed the canary contract, adjusted gas costs.
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