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Unicorns(🦄)

Token
Part of The Avsa Collection
0x89205a3a3b2a...b2108b2c43e7
FrontierContract #8,380Source VerifiedEdit this contract
Deployed February 11, 2016 (10 years ago)Block 988,949

Rare “Unicorn” token awarded for donating 2.014 ETH to the Ethereum Foundation Tip Jar in 2016.

Frontier EraVerified Source

Historical Significance

Represents an early Ethereum-native “community reward” mechanic (donate → receive token) and a building block for one of the earliest public demonstrations of token mutation and playful on-chain social experiments.

Context

In Ethereum’s early years, core contributors experimented openly with smart contracts as community tools—fundraising, incentives, and novel token behaviors—well before today’s standardized patterns and mature DeFi infrastructure.

Token Information
Logo
Unicorns logo
via RPC
Token Name
Unicorns
Symbol
🦄
Decimals
0
Key Facts
Deployment Block
988,949
Deployment Date
Feb 11, 2016, 06:16 PM
Code Size
2.5 KB
Gas at Deploy
616,457
Transactions by Year
2016172
2017257
201857
201932
202026
202161
202228
20233
20248
202518

Description

Created as a donation reward tied to the Ethereum Foundation Tip Jar (Feb 2016). The token became a memorable early-era artifact of Ethereum culture and an ingredient in later on-chain experiments around token transformation and DAO-style governance.

The Ethereum Foundation used the Tip Jar as a fundraising and community initiative, rewarding each 2.014 ETH donation with a Unicorn token. The Unicorns later became the input token used in Alex Van de Sande’s “Unicorn Meat” experiment, where holders could “grind” Unicorns into a new token.

Historian Categories

TokenDAO / Governance
Heuristic Analysis

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

Detected Type: Token
Has ERC-20-like patterns

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes2,574
Unique Opcodes182
Jump Instructions121
Storage Operations75

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