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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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'Digital archeology': long-dormant MoonCats project rides NFT mania to the moon

The second-ever nonfungible collectibles project on Ethereum sees new life

As the profusion of new algorithmically-generated nonfungible token projects drives down the premium on digital rarity, digital history and being among the “firsts” has become a more reliable source of value. As a result, long-forgotten projects are being unearthed by on-chain sleuths, and yesterday they might have struck gold on their biggest find yet. 

At 7 AM UTC March 12, Twitter user and NFT collector “ETHoard” posted a short thread on what may be the second-ever nonfungible collectibles project launched on Ethereum, MoonCats.

According to Etherscan, the MoonCatsRescue contract is 1310 days old, first written to Ethereum on Aug 09 2017. That would mean MoonCats predates CryptoKitties, the NFT project widely credited with popularizing NFTs, by three months, and likewise is just a touch younger than CryptoPunks, the OG NFT project on Ethereum. 

Users quickly set to figuring out how to interact with the contracts manually via Etherscan, as the website’s fronted had long gone defunct. The first MoonCat minted in 992 days came to digital life at 2:52 PM UTC.

At the time users reported that the cost of interacting with the contract to “rescue” the cats was between $50 to $200 (some speculate that gas prices rose due to MoonCat mining demand), and the cost to wrap them so they could be listed on NFT marketplace Opensea ran upwards of $200. All 25,600 cats were minted within a few hours. 

The floor price for cats on Opensea has risen as high as .8 ETH at the time of publication — netting cat resucers roughly $1000 profit per cat. There’s been 715 ETH worth of activity, pushing the project to the top of various volume leaderboards, and new community-built frontends have already emerged.

The remarkable story has been likened by some as a form of digital archeology, in which treasure hunters found long-lost history:

“In my opinion, what we witnessed yesterday was the digital equivalent of discovering historical artifacts,” said MoonCat collector Elmo. “While that may sound hyperbolic right now, I think history will look back on these seemingly rudimentary pieces of art as the first steps in pioneering the growth in digital arts.”

Elmo has been posting quaint statistics and records of MoonCatRescue's digital footprint, including one Reddit thread where users said the cost of minting a Cat was 50 cents. He also notes that the project is a rare example of a truly "fair launch" they contract was available and open to the public for years before the community caught wind and it exploded in popularity. 

MoonCats aren't the only digit goldmine historians and prospectors have stumbled on in recent days. There have been efforts to resuscitate other projects that the community has found underappreciated. Collector and developer Nate Hart saw a sudden bid in his Chainfaces project, one of the earliest NFT projects to have all relevant metadata on-chain earlier this month, after months of relative stagnation. 

The question now turns to what other long-lost contracts are gathering cobwebs on Ethereum?

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