When the global financial system runs on Ethereum, fully on-chain projects like MoonCats (launched in August 2017) will be recognized as digital antiquities from the genesis era of decentralized culture. And you can buy one rn for like 0.15 ETH, smfh 🤣

You won't go buy them though, because you think it has to be expensive now to be valuable.

@JuliusXBT @mooncat5997 "the image is generated deterministically from the original 5-byte DNA"

Furthermore, "the image is generated deterministically from the original 5-byte DNA". That's actually a really big deal, but don't believe me. Verify it yourself.

@JuliusXBT @mooncat5997 "the original contract never pushed pixel data, yet it always contained enough deterministic information for anyone to regenerate every MoonCat’s artwork offline. The 2022 contracts just let you do the same computation entirely on-chain."

👆 This means it's also the earliest generative art on Ethereum as well. People can and will argue semantics all day, but MoonCats original contract contained enough data onchain to recreate the art offline. This was all done in August 2017.