Today we’re introducing you to two new aspects of the KittyVerse: a buying tool and a social network for your cats! With these pawjects you can find the perfect Kitty, make it your own, and then make it your social media avatar as you peruse a world where we’re all a little catty.

LocalKitty helps you hunt for the perfect Kitty

CryptoKittyDex is a community tool that helps you isolate and understand the genes behind your Kitties. It’s also the inspiration behind LocalKitty. Their team loved what CryptoKittyDex did, but they also wanted to be able to see the Kitty’s price. So their developer, Murry, created LocalKitty.

We all know that the CryptoKitties website occasionally has fleas or lags when updating what’s on the blockchain. Because Murry runs his own Ethereum node, he gets data directly from the blockchain. And because the site’s functionality is simpler, it doesn’t run into the same lagging problems that the CryptoKitties website has to deal with!

After originally creating LocalKitty for personal use, Murray realized it would be useful for the rest of the community, too. So he opened it up for public use, and the LocalKitty team was born. They added to its initial use, and now LocalKitty is a robust community tool whose current functions are buying, checking prices, a watchlist, a comprehensive mutli-function search, and a cat life story (a transaction list for every cat).

The team plans to build out even more functionality in the future, including matching Kitty pairs to get a specific kind of kitten, one click breeding, and batch sales.

Join the conversation on CryptoPurr

If you’re still cursing the fact that you didn’t get on Facebook until after your mother, don’t worry. You can get in on the ground floor of CryptoPurr. There your Kitty can purr, like other Kitties, and grow its influence. You can even pay more influential users to advertise your cat on their profile (or, if you’re the trendsetter, accept a little cha-ching in exchange for lending a paw to another player).

If you want to learn more about CryptoPurr, they have a blog post that explains it all. But its most interesting facet, other than engaging in the social media lives of fictional characters, is that it establishes connections between your cryptocollectibles and off-chain information. It can then look at those connections and rank the results in a feed. For instance, you could display all the messages you’ve received from CryptoKitties on the CryptoPurr platform, and then rank them by the amount of Ethereum owned by the address. (Some of that functionality isn’t live on the site, but it’s an important part of the team’s long term plans.)

CryptoPurr launched as an experiment from Userfeeds. The team believes that non-fungible tokens (like CryptoKitties) will go beyond cryptocollectibles and gaming. Imagine new social media avatars, or even media brands that could act as uniquely identifiable and tradable channels for distribution of information. It’s not that far off from the present — think of Lil Bub!

The future might not just be cats, but cats allow an easy avenue to a future that reinvents social media. The vision of the CryptoPurr team is big: from balancing the increasing polarization of online discourse to fighting fake news. But for now? Purring Kitties.