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An Archaeology of Digital Collections: Finding NFT "MoonCats" that predate crypto cats

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Interesting finding.

Rhythm BlockBeats news, on March 14, MoonCats development team Ponderware tweet updates the latest development of the project, "all ordinary MoonCats have been rescued, intelligent contract prohibits any extra ordinary MoonCats be saved. (please don't try, you will only lose your Gas cost.) as for the rest of the 160 creation cat. We are trying to develop the best solutions, to maintain the spirit of the project, and maximize all MoonCats rescuers fun."

The team also says that its priority is getting the site up and running again, but that the team is not yet involved with any other tools or services related to Mooncats, and thanks Twitter user "@ethoard" for rediscovering the project.

On March 12, "@ethoard" said it had discovered an NFT project called Mooncats, whose contract was created on August 9, 2017, three months before Cryptokitties and was also inspired by the NFT project Cryptopunks, which may be the second non-homogeneous collectibles to be launched on Ethereum. When crypto users learned about the project, they quickly started looking for ways to manually interact with contracts via EtherScan, since the front end of the site no longer exists.

After other users posted tutorials on Twitter, more kittens began appearing and were sold at high prices on OpenSea. "It seems to me that what we saw yesterday was the digital version of historical artifacts being discovered," said Mooncat collector Elmo. "It sounds a bit of an exaggeration now, but I think history will look back at these seemingly basic works of art as the first step in leading the development of digital art."