Each of these virtual cats is unique, and can’t be interchanged with each other. Soon, enthusiasts were able to breed, raise, and trade virtual cats with unique genomes. In October of 2017, some smartypants created ‘CryptoKitties’ on Ethereum, a blockchain platform. The backlog peaked at about 30,000 pending transactions.Cats! The bane of the internet strikes again. At one point, the viral game accounted for nearly 30% of all transactions on Ethereum, which resulted in delays and unprocessed transactions. Within days of the game’s launch last year, players’ fervor for breeding, collecting and trading digital cats clogged up the Ethereum network. Intended as a cute way to promote the mainstream adoption of Ethereum - a digital and decentralized ledger which records the game’s smart contracts - CryptoKitties caught on with an irrational vengeance. We ended up hitting every one of those numbers within the first three days,” Giang tells Fortune. “We did some models and we some made spreadsheets and had everyone take a guess at how many users we’d see. 28 launch, even their wildest speculations were quickly eclipsed. That’s partially because after the PC version’s Nov. The game’s studio, Axiom Zen, hasn’t put a number on how many new users they’re expecting. 16, just in time for the Lunar New Year, with a global roll out expected a few weeks after the China release, says the game’s co-founder Benny Giang. The mobile edition is set to debut on Feb. The blockbuster game is going mobile, launching a Chinese-language iOS App aimed at bringing Greater China and Singapore into the feline frenzy.

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