Dossier
Alex Van de Sande
Coverage of Alex Van de Sande in the Nexus archive.
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- Two early Ethereum tokens from 2015 and 2016 are still trading in 2026
Two early Ethereum tokens, Wrapped MistCoin (WMC) from 2015 and Unicorn Meat (w🍖) from 2016, remain actively traded in 2026 with market caps of $998K and $1.05M, respectively. They represent historical artifacts of Ethereum's pre-ERC-20 era and have gained renewed liquidity through wrappers and Uniswap.
- Etherscan officially recognized the 2016 Unicorn Meat token as an Ethereum Foundation contract, so I cracked and verified the Grinder source code
Etherscan officially recognized the 2016 Unicorn Meat token as an Ethereum Foundation contract created by Alex Van de Sande (avsa), an early Ethereum core team member. The source code for the Unicorn Meat Grinder DAO, one of Ethereum's first DAOs, was recently cracked and verified on Etherscan after being stored in a GitHub gist for 10 years.