Less than a week after the release of the game application “CryptoKittens” has become the most popular in the blockade Ethereum. The project from the first days attracted increased interest, forcing users to spend “ether” to get digital kittens. In pursuit of rare specimens, players are ready to pay huge sums – for a week they spent a total of over 2.6 million dollars on cryptocats.

The essence of “CryptoKittens” is to collect rare species of cats. They can be crossed with each other, getting new kinds. Each kit has a number of visual characteristics. These features are passed on to the offspring, and some of them – less often others, so players try to figure out the algorithm to find the best way to breed animals with unique features.

“The algorithm contains 4 billion variations of phenotypes (you can see them) and genotypes (you can not see them). Since the kittens are tokens in blockade, they can be bought, sold and transmitted in digital form “, – said the developers.

The “Generation 0” cat of the Jaguar breed currently costs about 70 “broadcasts” or nearly $ 24,000. It is known that one user bought a rare “cat of genesis” for 246.9 “ether” ($ 117,000). According to some reports, 15% of all Ethereum block traffic traffic now comes from cryptocats.