The original "I Can Has Cheezburger?" meme has become the latest symbol of pop culture to exist immortalized every bit an NFT.

The meme's creator, Eric Nakagawa, appear his foray into a series of lolcat NFTs on Feb. 23. "Happy Cat" — the crown jewel of Nakgawa's NFT release — is being auctioned on NFT marketplace OpenSea, with the highest bid currently sitting at 0.25 ETH.

The x piece series, titled "No Fries Today," comprises early lolcat memes and meme-inspired artwork. Some gain of the sales volition exist donated to charitable organizations, including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Internet Annal, and the Earth Wildlife Foundation.

Each NFT includes the backstory explaining how the meme it represents was originally created, with Nakagawa stating he exhumed prototype files from his "ancient personal archive" for the serial.

While Nakagawa tells Cointelegraph that he "definitely jumped the gun on Happy Cat," he says he has a couple of other collections rearing to be released.

NFTs have been on a tear during 2021, pulling $60 meg in daily sales on February. 23, with many pop tokens drawing inspiration from well-known memes..

A NFT version of "Nyan Cat" — the heavily memed video of a flying toaster-shaped feline — sold on Feb. 21 for near $580,000, on the Foundation market app.

In January, American collectibles giant Topps released a series of caricatures based on a meme-able flick of Bernie Sanders, selling 8,876 packs of NFT cards over a iii day sale.

Nakagawa is no stranger to cryptocurrency, currently working equally head of Open Source in the Blockchain department of Novi Financial — the Facebook subsidiary overseeing development of its crypto asset project, Diem.

After co-founding the pop picture sharing website icanhascheezburger.com in 2007, he briefly joined Ripple Labs as Director of Growth in 2013, before taking a position as Startup Outreach at the Dogecoin Foundation the following year.

While working with Dogecoin, Nakagawa organized "doge4water," a fundraiser that nerveless forty million DOGE for a Kenya-based clemency — worth $33,000 at the time.