Some things don’t just exist on Ethereum. They define its history.
Unicorn Meat 🍖 is one of them.
Back in March 2016, when Ethereum was still raw and undefined, Alex Van de Sande — one of the earliest builders at the Ethereum Foundation — created Unicorn Meat. Not for speculation, but for experimentation. The original concept is still preserved here 👉 https://t.co/atsusftD7H
A month earlier, Ethereum introduced Unicorns 🦄 as a donation token 👉 https://t.co/R2yStK8oKe
Then came the twist: the Unicorn Meat Grinder — a contract that allowed users to burn Unicorns to receive Meat, submit proposals, and vote to change how the system worked.
This wasn’t just a meme. It was:
one of the earliest DAOs
one of the first token mutation systems
a primitive on-chain exchange
even early bribable governance
All in 2016 — before ERC-20, before CryptoKitties, before DeFi had a name.
Then came the inevitable. Piper Merriam used the system exactly as designed to take over the contract and extract 5 ETH 👉 https://t.co/X5kRNsgYbI
Avsa responded 👉 https://t.co/ta0btmaCPI
and even linked it to the philosophy behind the DAO hack 👉 https://t.co/5wm4ZCwy3W
No hacks. No exploits.
Just code as law.
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Then it went quiet. Left untouched on-chain for nearly a decade.
But history doesn’t disappear — it waits to be rediscovered.
Banteg later spoke about preserving Unicorn memorabilia 👉 https://t.co/9uQdyVMqYp
And control of the Grinder Association eventually shifted 👉 https://t.co/mExCXSScDH
The story continued.
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In 2025, Unicorn Meat was revived:
Trading announcement 👉 https://t.co/Fut9fpTzhP
LP locks 👉 https://t.co/ZnBUUnnPVJ
Proof of the first trustless token swap 👉 https://t.co/0XMA7PbHJ4
10-year anniversary 👉 https://t.co/IGz6pWadLI
100M supply minted. Contract renounced. What was once infinite became finite — and tradable.
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And then the final piece:
Etherscan added a note confirming:
“This token was created by Avsa of the Ethereum Foundation.”
Proof 👉 https://t.co/WUmrAdoy78
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That’s the moment it stopped being a meme.
It became verified history.
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Unicorn Meat isn’t DeFi. But it comes from the moment DeFi was being invented. Not a finished product — but a first sketch of an entire industry.
A relic. A primitive. A living fossil.
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In a space obsessed with what’s next,
Unicorn Meat 🍖 proves that some of the most important things were already built years ago.
Etherscan has added the same note to the Unicorn Meat wrapper contract as well. 🍖🎉
Now it’s even easier to learn about Unicorn Meat, Unicorns, the Ethereum Foundation, and the legend Avsa.
Next an Ethereum History Card? 📖🖼️
sent out another round of the airdrops, have airdropped about ~$7M so far, will do more as market cap goes higher
goal is to get $ANSEM to 1M holders currently at ~25k holders
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ticket is GTAVI ( The rest is GTA 6 ) : 25okNXRjYJC4nwyg84e1tV5VAuCJT8CYe1tJJYoFqJnw (130k - ath 740k )
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Turned $3,100 into $22.8M from the Ethereum ICO 🫡🫡
This wallet spent $3.1K to buy ETH in the ICO 10 years ago, and that stack is now worth $22.8M — over a 7,000x return :((
So now, a token deployed by ASVA from the Ethereum Foundation — could this be an opportunity?
This is what the first token swap in Ethereum history might have looked like if we’d had a slick UI like Uniswap back in April 2016.
Here’s the historic transaction:(@Avsa always grinding)
$w🍖
https://t.co/OE0LPaDOO3
Probably the biggest NFT minting event on Ethereum history:
Almost 800,000 different wallets minted the “Ten Years of Ethereum NFT” by Ethereum Foundation.
https://t.co/Jf93d5yk7k