THE 1ST SPORTS NFT IN HISTORY
RAREPEPESS — or widely known as SLAM DUNK PEPE — is a digital collectible dedicated to Michael Jordan, released as Series 3, Card 47 in the rarepepe collection of just 250 tokens. Every one of those tokens is locked and non-divisible: you can't split a card. It exists exactly as it was made.
It was officially dropped on October 16, 2016, minted on the Bitcoin blockchain using the Counterparty (XCP) protocol. That makes it not the first sports token of its moment, but the first sports token, full stop — precedent to the Ethereum-based sports collectibles by a margin of several years. The runner-up came from the same program: RPEPEARMANDO, dedicated to Diego Maradona, released just one day later on October 17, 2016.
