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Unicorn Meat(🍖)

Token
Part of The Avsa Collection
0xED6aC8de7c7C...2A1232DDef9A
HomesteadContract #13KSource VerifiedEdit this contract
Deployed March 25, 2016 (10 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.

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Historical Significance

Early, vivid example of on-chain “token mutation” plus DAO governance (including how governance can be exploited), and one of the few tokens portrayed as directly created by an Ethereum Foundation contributor as part of public experimentation.

Context

In 2016, Ethereum’s contract ecosystem was still experimental; contributors used real contracts to explore governance, incentives, and emergent behavior. Unicorn Meat sits at the intersection of early meme culture and serious lessons about contract ownership and proposal-driven control.

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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
Gas at Deploy
695,056
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.

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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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

Opcodes1,950
Unique Opcodes157
Jump Instructions98
Storage Operations55

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