It started as a typo. I worked at Parallel Markets, and we were buying up domains to head off typosquats. parallelmeerkats.com was too good to pass on, so I grabbed it. A couple years later it became Parallel Meerkats — a proof-of-concept NFT collection built to integrate the Parallel Identity Token, a now-sunset on-chain KYC offering.
It’s a small set of AI-generated meerkats, each minted on Ethereum and listed on OpenSea. Gen 1 came out of Craiyon, Gen 2 out of DALL·E — every meerkat has a name, an origin story, a birthday and a keeper, all tracked in the index. We ended up handing them out as recognition awards around the office — which is how Number 7 went to someone for superior bug-hunting.
Solidity, JavaScript, Ethereum, OpenSea, DALL·E