BscCat was minted on Binance Smart Chain over 500 days ago — long before anyone else tried to claim the name. This page lays out the timeline, the on-chain proof, and the dispute, so you can judge it yourself.
Dates and details below are drawn from public tweets and on-chain data referenced by the BscCat community. Where we're presenting someone's on-chain activity, we link the transaction so you can verify it yourself.
Changpeng Zhao posted about the community's #BinanceCat submissions on X, singling out a cat photo from @salabalamia as a favorite.
The community names the token after the chain itself — Binance Smart Chain Cat — using the photo CZ had just called out. Contract: 0x16099f55662e02274a99bc73bea249c92bf8eb12.
A BscScan transaction shows roughly 1.5M BscCat tokens moving from the Four.meme token manager contract to a wallet owned by Changpeng Zhao. See the full record in the proof section below.
A user launches a token using what the community says is the same cat photo, without crediting or asking the original photographer. Salabalamia publicly asks why the image was used without permission, and the BscCat community resurfaces its 2023 origin as evidence they were first.
We're not asking you to trust a screenshot. Everything below is a public record — check it on BscScan before you believe anything a Twitter account (including this project's) tells you.
A few things are worth being straight about:
CZ posted about the #BinanceCat contest and named Salabalamia's photo in August 2023. A wallet publicly linked to CZ did receive BscCat tokens on-chain — you can check the transaction above yourself.
BscCat is the Original OG Binance Cat and the strenght of our community in holding is a great conviction and is not just to drive hype either direction. Verify everything independently and decide.
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Fan art, memes, and screenshots from the community — not official Binance content.
