Ethereum Cat Gio

He has been sitting on ethereum.org for years. Almost nobody knows his name.

Gio is a real cat, drawn onto a 2018 charity greeting card — and hidden inside the diamond on ethereum.org ever since. The card is moving to a new contract with a flywheel model; minting is paused until it lands.

The story → Where the fees go →
Chart @Gio_ETHCat Telegram Etherscan
CA: 0x3b48f83e525268c08426aaa337c3f08f501c824d
— ETH IN FEE ESCROW
— $GIO IN FEE ESCROW
— $GIO BURNED
Catz on ETH — a brown cat with glowing Ethereum-logo eyes in front of a nebula
RadiCards card 6 · December 2018 “Catz on ETH”, by mattyb — the NFT this page mints

THE STORY, IN THREE ACTS

2018

The card

RadiCards launches 32 NFT greeting cards for charity. Card 6, “Catz on ETH”, features a real cat named Gio — a pet of one of the builders.

2020

The easter egg

A commit quietly places Gio inside the diamond on ethereum.org’s decentralized identity page. He is still there today.

Now

Moving on

The 2018 contract was never taken down and never upgraded — but it sends every wei to fixed addresses nobody here controls. Minting is paused while Gio moves to a new contract.

The Ethereum diamond on ethereum.org, filled with a mirrored image of the same cat

Look closely at the diamond. Same cat. Same glowing Ethereum eyes.

This is the original — not a tribute and not a re-draw. The same cat, the same 2018 card, the same artwork that ended up on Ethereum's own website.

See Gio on ethereum.org ↗
Gio is on ethereum.org right now ↗ethereum.org/decentralized-identity The commit that credited Lili Lashka ↗ethereum-org-website · 0cf54db · 17 Aug 2020 “in collaboration with Gio (a pet cat)” ↗the RadiCards team’s own write-up The 2018 contract, still open ↗verified · deployed 18 Dec 2018 · never upgraded

GIO IS HER CAT

Where the trading fees go

A share of $GIO trading fees is streamed to an escrow contract held for @lililashka. She can sweep it to any wallet she likes, whenever she likes, without asking anyone. The team can only ever move it to one of the three addresses below — the contract rejects every other destination.

—ETH IN ESCROW
—$GIO IN ESCROW

Nothing in escrow yet — the contract goes up before the first fee is routed.

Claim

If you are @lililashka, connect and the balance is yours to move.

Minting paused

Moving to a new contract

The 2018 contract hard-codes where the money goes — two fixed addresses this project does not control and cannot change. One of them has not moved a single wei since December 2018.

Minting is paused while Gio moves to a new contract with a flywheel model, so the proceeds go somewhere the community can actually see and steer.

Nothing you do here spends anything, and the cards already minted are unaffected.

Update coming soon

Cards already sent

The most recent Catz, newest first — messages exactly as they were written.

—GIO CARDS MINTED
—RAISED TO CHARITY

Run by the Ethereum Cat community

This page is maintained by holders of $GIO — an ERC-20 named after the cat. Trading fees fund the mints, and will fund the new contract's flywheel.

0x3b48f83e525268c08426aaa337c3f08f501c824d
—$GIO BURNED
—CATZ FROM COMMUNITY WALLET
—DONATED BY COMMUNITY
@Gio_ETHCat Telegram Chart Token contract Community wallet