ClankerCats Origin
ClankerCats is the first Mirage Garden anchor community. Before Mirage Garden became a public bPeg launcher and marketplace, the project started with cats: 200 on-chain pixelcats, CCAT identity, and the first BasePeg-style bPeg/upeg experiment on Base.
The 200 pixelcats
ClankerCats centers on a small set of 200 on-chain pixelcats. They are part art, part identity, and part early proof that a Base community could use token-linked on-chain objects instead of a generic NFT drop.
The pixelcats are the source of Mirage Garden's cat-coded language and ClankerCats eligibility surfaces. The app still reads ClankerCats holdings for discounts and staking eligibility, while the broader Mirage Garden system expands the primitive to other Base token communities.
CCAT and BasePeg
CCAT was the first BasePeg-style bPeg/upeg. It proved the core idea: an on-chain object can represent community membership and art while being connected to a token culture on Base.
CCAT is custom infrastructure. It stores upeg ownership in the CCAT contract and exposes CCAT-specific reads such as OwnerUpegsCount(address). That makes it important historically, but it also means CCAT upegs should not be treated as identical to later Mirage Garden factory bPegs.
CCAT versus factory bPegs
Mirage Garden factory bPegs are the standardized ERC-721 continuation of the CCAT idea. A creator chooses an ERC-20 gate token, a required token threshold, collection settings, and renderer data; the factory deploys a normal ERC-721 collection around those rules.
| CCAT upeg lineage | Mirage Garden factory bPeg |
|---|---|
| Original ClankerCats experiment | Public launcher primitive |
| Custom CCAT ownership registry | Standard ERC-721 ownership |
| Read with CCAT-specific functions | Read with normal ERC-721 functions |
| Connected to the 200 on-chain pixelcats | Available to any Base ERC-20 community |
| Historic BasePeg/upeg root | Standardized bPeg continuation |
The distinction matters for users and integrators. CCAT can qualify wallets in ClankerCats-specific surfaces, but Mirage Garden collection pages, marketplace listings, and launcher output are built around the standardized ERC-721 bPeg contracts.
Where it shows up
- What is a bPeg? explains the shared lineage and the ERC-721 factory model.
- Fees and Discounts covers ClankerCats-related mint fee discounts.
- Staking documents the current ClankerCats eligibility reads.
- Contract Reference lists the CCAT, ClankerCats, and Mirage Garden contract addresses used by the app.