A magical coin made by Ethereum in March 2016.
Now wrapped and
revived.
Unicorn Meat is a historic Ethereum meme token, created by Ethereum's Alex Van de Sande in March 2016 as part of a demonstration of token mutations, DAOs, bribable voting, and on-chain fun. A month after the Ethereum Foundation created Unicorns 🦄 as an offering in return for anyone who donated 2.014 ETH to the Ethereum Foundation Tip Jar, Alex devised what was conveyed as an April Fool's joke – a Unicorn Meat token and a Unicorn Meat Grinder Association contract allowing any Unicorn holder to grind their Unicorns for Unicorn Meat, as well as make proposals to change how the operation functioned.
A week after the announcement, Piper Merriam, a core developer of Ethereum, used the proposal and voting mechanism to take control of the contract and take 5 ETH for themself. In 2025, an Ethereum wanderer followed Piper's footsteps and passed a proposal to transfer the Unicorn Meat contract ownership to themself. Then 100M Unicorn Meat were minted and the contract renounced. A once infinitely mintable historic meme relic now has a finite supply, a renounced contract, and is wrapped to be tradable and owned by anyone!
Unicorn Meat is a collectible meme token – no financial value, just mythical fun 🦄🍖.
All three contracts share the same creator address – Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation.
Token Name: Unicorn Meat
Symbol: w🍖
Ethereum Contract:
0xDFA208BB0B811cFBB5Fa3Ea98Ec37Aa86180e668
0xDFA2...668
Base Contract:
0xa0ff877E3d4f3a108B1B3d5eB3e4369301D2b2D7
0xa0ff...2D7
Decimals: 3
Unicorn holders and evil Etherean Unicorn grinders were airdropped 10% of the Unicorn Meat supply on Aug 2, 2025. 3% was divided amongst the seven Unicorn grinders, and 7% to Unicorn holders distributed proportionally to their Unicorn holdings.
The spirit of the Unicorn April Fool's Joke was to have fun and we will preserve that. Future rewards, mutations?, initiatives will foster that same spirit. Could the Unicorn Meat Grinder come back?
Alex envisioned (and coded) a Unicorn Killers Hall of Fame. Word on the street is something magical is coming. Will you compete for most evil Etherean?
Want to wrap or unwrap Unicorn Meat between the original 2016 contract and the wrapper?
Want to wrap or unwrap Unicorns 🦄 between the original 2016 contract and the wrapper?
Note: Wrapping requires two transactions (approve + wrap). The button will handle both for you automatically.
Join the legendary 🦄️ herd by claiming your unique subdomain on the🦄.eth!
Choose any name you like: alice.the🦄.eth, meatlover.the🦄.eth, or get creative! Each wallet can claim one subdomain and update it anytime.
💡 Pro Tip: Use your subdomain as your X (Twitter) name to show off your herd membership! Rumor has it that herd members will be rewarded 👀.
Yes! This is the original Unicorn Meat created in March 2016 by Ethereum's Alex Van de Sande. The contract was claimed through the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association, 100M Unicorn Meat were minted and the contract renounced. The historic ERC-20 contract is now wrapped and its tokens ownable by anyone. The meat is 100% authentic from the historic 2016 contract.
Unicorn Meat is a historic token created by Ethereum core contributor Alex Van de Sande as an on-chain April Fools' joke. It allowed anyone to "grind" their Unicorn token to receive Unicorn Meat — making it one of the first demonstrations of token mutation on Ethereum. Beyond the humor, it's also one of the few tradable tokens directly created by the Ethereum team.
Yes, there's intrigue in reviving a coin created by the
Ethereum Foundation — and potential monetary upside — but there's more to
it. The Unicorn Meat contract was acquired through a DAO proposal that
reached quorum. Anyone holding even one Unicorn could have done the same —
and eventually, someone would have.
Both the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association and the contract had been
dormant for years. The Grinder Association saw just 23 transactions, the
last in 2017. The Unicorn Meat contract itself had only 7, ending in 2016.
Some may cry foul for minting 100M and renouncing the contract so no more can be minted — and that's fair. But we hope more will appreciate
the chance to own a piece of Ethereum history and enjoy what comes next.
As long as the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association isn't the owner of the Unicorn Meat contract, the Unicorn Grinder remains unusable. Renouncing the contract ensures no one can mint additional tokens, preventing meatflation and making the token safely tradable.
The original Unicorn and Unicorn Meat contracts deviate slightly from the modern ERC-20 standard, making them incompatible with most centralized and decentralized exchanges. Wrapping Unicorn Meat makes it tradable on modern platforms. For those who prefer the original, wrapped tokens can be unwrapped 1:1 at any time.
Yes! Wrapped Unicorn Meat (w🍖) is fully interoperable with the original 2016 Unicorn Meat contract. You can freely wrap and unwrap tokens 1:1 at any time.
To wrap:
approveAndCall function.
_spender:
0xDFA208BB0B811cFBB5Fa3Ea98Ec37Aa86180e668_value: Amount of 🍖 you want to wrap_extraData: Leave empty (0x)To unwrap:
unwrap function.Use the Unwrap button on this site if you prefer a simpler UI.