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HumanityCards(wHCX)

0xf6f722590af5...b72dde1c70ca
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Deployed June 7, 2026 (3 months ago)Block 25,267,087

An ERC-721 wrapper that holds original 2018 Humanity Cards and issues standards compliant tokens against them, so a pre standard collectible can be traded again.

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Historical Significance

Wrappers like this are how the pre standard era stays reachable. A collectible from 2018 is not obsolete in any technical sense, its ownership records are intact and its transfers still work, but the infrastructure built after it cannot see it. The choice is to leave early work stranded or to build an adapter, and this is the adapter.

It is also a reminder of what standards are actually for. ERC-165 does nothing except let a contract answer a question about itself, and the entire difference between a tradeable collection and an invisible one turns on whether that one question can be answered.

Context

Deployed on 7 June 2026 by 0xF66Ac2C80AaeFF89b081Ff911E80E7DAEB9D0af6, which also holds the contract's owner role, eight years after the cards it wraps.

The pattern is by now well established in this archive. Curio Cards, CryptoKitties and Peperium all acquired wrappers for the same reason, and each is linked to its original the same way this one is, so a holder is credited for the artefact rather than for the convenience contract standing in front of it.

Token Information
Token Name
HumanityCards
Symbol
wHCX
Key Facts
Deployer
cart00n.eth (0xf66ac2...9d0af6)
Deployment Block
25,267,087
Deployment Date
Jun 7, 2026, 05:43 PM
Code Size
5.7 KB
Transactions by Year
2026786

Description

Humanity Cards were issued in March 2018, before ERC-721 had settled into the shape marketplaces now expect. The original contract at 0xbc9b96e7aa6afea664f9d5fdda168518ee20f2cc keeps a supply of 1,724 and answers ownerOf, name and symbol, so it behaves like a collection to anyone who reads it directly.

What it does not do is announce itself. Calling supportsInterface on it reverts, because it implements no ERC-165 at all, and getApproved reverts too. Marketplaces decide whether an address is an NFT collection by asking exactly that question, so to a modern listing site the original is not a collection, it is an address that fails a probe. The cards are still owned and still transferable by anyone talking to the contract directly, and simultaneously unlistable.

This contract is the bridge. A holder deposits an original card and receives a wHCX token representing it, redeemable back the same way. Unlike the original it answers ERC-165 properly, reporting support for both ERC-721 and ERC-721 Metadata, which is what makes it visible to the tooling the original cannot reach.

The custody is verifiable rather than asserted. Reading the 2018 contract, this wrapper holds 778 of the 1,724 original cards, so a little under half the collection currently sits behind it.

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes5,840
Unique Opcodes247
Jump Instructions367
Storage Operations73

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Wraps

The earlier contract this one represents. Holding this counts as holding that original on a collector card.

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