Meebits

Meebits are 20,000 characters built from voxels, small cubes that do for 3D what pixels do for a flat picture. Larva Labs made them as avatars for games and virtual worlds. An algorithm dresses each figure in its own hair, hat, shirt, trousers and shoes. Most are human. The rest are pigs, elephants, robots, skeletons, 18 Visitors and five Dissected, whose clear heads show what is inside. Some clothes carry the studio's own labels: an Autoglyph on a shirt, LL on sneakers, and Snoutz, the code name from when every prototype was a pig.

The contract went live on May 3, 2021. Owners of a CryptoPunk or an Autoglyph could claim one free Meebit for each, and 9,000 more went on sale that afternoon in an auction priced to fall over a week. They were gone the same day. Five days later a collector who could read the traits of unminted Meebits in advance cancelled claims until he drew a Visitor, #16647. Larva Labs paused claims and offered to mint the rest itself. Owners can still download their Meebit's 3D models, a print-ready version among them. The files live on a server, not onchain.

In 2021 a Dissected and a double-faced pig each topped DappRadar's weekly list of NFT sales, and Christie's Hong Kong sold #6337, a Skeleton in a black suit. In March 2022 collectors solved a puzzle Larva Labs had set soon after launch: the jersey numbers of 64 pigs in Snoutz Jerseys formed the private key to a wallet holding #2858. That month Larva Labs sold the rights to Yuga Labs, which sold them to The Meebit Company in February 2025. Its license lets owners use their own Meebit's art commercially, with no cap on revenue, while they hold it.