ISSUE No. 1 · SOLANA
$Asimov
SCIENCE FINANCE
- Fact + fiction
- The Pair$ASIMOV beside tokenized NVIDIA
- Why a cat named Asimov
- R. Daneel Olivaw returns
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ISSUE No. 1 · SOLANA
From the editor's desk
Science fiction, meet science fact.
In 1942 Isaac Asimov wrote three laws for robots that didn't exist yet. Today NVIDIA builds the chips that train them, and named its robotics platform Isaac. $ASIMOV is the Solana token for people who read the fiction first. It launches on StonkFun paired directly against NVDAx, a token backed 1:1 by a real NVIDIA share. To buy the fiction you spend the fact. That's the joke and the thesis.
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The pair
One pool on StonkFun: $ASIMOV quoted in NVDAx. Prices load live from DexScreener.
$Asimov
SCIENCE FICTION
- The FictionMeme token on Solana
- Ticker
- $ASIMOV
- Pair
- $ASIMOV / NVDAx on StonkFun
- Price
- posts at launch
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- Contract
- posts at launch
NVDAx
SCIENCE FACT
- The FactTokenized NVIDIA share
- Issuer
- Backed Finance (xStocks)
- Backing
- 1:1 NVIDIA shares, held by a custodian
- Price
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- Mint
- Xsc9qvGR1efVDFGLrVsmkzv3qi45LTBjeUKSPmx9qEh
NVDAx is issued by Backed Finance and is not available to US persons. $ASIMOV trades against NVDAx, but $ASIMOV itself is not an NVIDIA share and is not backed by one. Neither project is affiliated with NVIDIA Corporation.
Why a cat named Asimov
The man who wrote the laws for robots. The animal humans have trusted for four thousand years. The company building the robots' brains.
Asimov, editor-in-chief. Live in 3D: move your cursor.
- c. 2000 BC · Egypt
Sacred
Cats belonged to the goddess Bastet. When a house cat died, Herodotus wrote, the family shaved their eyebrows in mourning.
- c. 1860s · Smiljan
The first spark
A boy stroked his cat Mačak on a dry winter night and its back lit up with sparks. Nikola Tesla grew up to light the world. CBC
- 1861 · The White House
Presidents and prime ministers
Abraham Lincoln brought cats into the White House. Winston Churchill's Jock was at Chartwell, where a marmalade cat named Jock still lives. Larry has been Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street since 2011.
- 1942 · New York
The laws
Isaac Asimov wrote the Three Laws of Robotics. He loved cats too, and co-edited the anthologies Magicats! and Magicats II.
- 2004 · Chicago, 2035
The witness
In I, Robot, the one survivor of Dr. Lanning's house is a tabby with a red collar. Reportedly, its name is Asimov. Cinema Cats
- 2011 · The internet
The mascot
Nyan Cat, Grumpy Cat, a billion videos. Cats became the face of the internet, then the face of crypto.
- 2012 · Google Brain
AI's first word
A neural network watched millions of YouTube frames with no labels and taught itself to recognise… a cat. A year later Stanford and NVIDIA rebuilt it 6.5× bigger on GPUs. insideHPC
- 2017 · NVIDIA
Isaac
NVIDIA launched Isaac, its robotics platform, reportedly named after Isaac Asimov. Today it trains the robots his laws were written for. 2017 report
- Now · Solana
$ASIMOV × NVDAx
A cat named after the man who wrote the laws for robots, paired with the company building their brains. Right name. Right animal. Right moment.
$Asimov's Laws of Tokenomics
In 1942, Isaac Asimov wrote three laws to keep robots from hurting people. These seven are meant to keep holders from hurting themselves.
- A holder may not ape in with money they cannot afford to lose or, through inaction, skip reading the contract address.Only trust the CA posted on this page and the official X account
- A holder must obey the chart, except where the chart was drawn by a stranger in your DMs.No team member will ever message you first
- A wallet must protect its own existence, as long as that does not mean typing its seed phrase into any website.Nobody legitimate will ever ask for your seed phrase
- A robot must never confuse a meme token with a share of NVIDIA.$ASIMOV trades against NVDAx. Only NVDAx is backed by shares, 1:1
- Every price on this page must come from a live source, or not be shown at all.Live prices load from DexScreener
- A token page may promise jokes, robots and good books, and nothing else.No roadmap of moons. Not financial advice
- Before buying the token, a holder should consider buying the book.See "Read the originals" below
Read the originals
Every joke on this page borrows from Isaac Asimov. Spin the shelf, then buy the real thing.
I, Robot
Cover images load live from Open Library and remain the property of their publishers and artists. Where a cover can't load, a painted stand-in appears. Bookshop.org shares its profits with independent bookstores. Still publishing: Asimov's Science Fiction, the magazine this page is dressed as.
The Foundation
Trantor, capital of a Galactic Empire, painted in our own hand. Scroll to rise up the tower.
TrantorAsimov's Foundation novels follow Hari Seldon, a mathematician whose psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire, and the Foundation he plans to shorten the dark age that follows.
Foundation
All seven novels, in publication order. Read them that way, or start with the two prequels. Covers load live from Open Library and belong to their publishers and artists. The books were adapted as the Apple TV+ series Foundation (2021).
Painters of the future
Our homages to the artists who gave Asimov's worlds a face. Go see, and buy, the real thing.
Trantor
Every canvas on this shelf is our own homage painted in code, not a copy. The originals belong to their artists and studios; follow the links to see them.
Featured feline
Case file: the cat in I, Robot, and the cats behind science fiction.
Reportedly: ASIMOVExhibit A · Chicago, 2035
A cat named Asimov
In I, Robot (2004), Del Spooner walks into Dr. Lanning's empty house and finds one witness: a tabby-and-white cat with a red collar. Minutes later a demolition robot starts tearing the house down around them. Spooner carries the cat out, then leaves it with his grandmother, Gigi.
The film never says the cat's name. The trivia files say it's Asimov.
Asimov was a cat lover too. According to Cinema Cats, he and his wife, the writer Janet Jeppson Asimov, kept cats at home, and cats turn up in his essays on animal intelligence. He also co-edited the cat anthologies Magicats! (1984) and Magicats II (1991). That's where his essay "I Love Little Pussy" appeared. Our editor-in-chief wears the red collar in his honour.
Sources: Cinema Cats, I, Robot (2004) · Wikipedia
The fellowship of writers and cats
Pixie searched every door in the house for one that led away from the snow, "a door into summer." It became the novel The Door into Summer. Pixel later walked into The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
Dick came to believe Pinky was his late mentor Anthony Boucher, reborn. The cat runs through The Exegesis.
Pard sat on her desk while she thought about time and Schrödinger's cat. He starred in her Annals of Pard.
Patch slept in a desk drawer while Pratchett wrote. The cats got a book of their own, The Unadulterated Cat, and Greebo got Discworld.
In First and Last Things, Peter sleeps on the window seat a few steps from Wells's desk. He's no symbol, just company while Wells thinks.
"In Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat." The Cats of Ulthar, 1920.
A real black cat turned up one day and became the hero of "The Price."
"You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you."
After Jacques Julien's essay Cats and Science Fiction Authors. No cat was harmed in the making of this token.
The screening room
Two original films. One about the laws, one about the cat. Sound on.
Now renderingOriginal animation and score. The First Law uses a short I, Robot (2004) dialogue excerpt for commentary; © 20th Century Studios. Not affiliated with NVIDIA, Backed, 20th Century Studios or the Asimov estate.