They lived on Robinhood's walls before Robinhood had a chain.
Now they're leaving the wall.
Before the chain,
there were cats.
In 2015, Robinhood's founders and muralist Nigel Sussman created something strange inside Robinhood's first offices.
Cats.
Lots of them.
69 feet of Robin Hood cats covered the walls of Robinhood's Palo Alto headquarters.
They weren't forgotten.
69 ft main wall plus three additional walls. Concept developed together with the Robinhood founders.
nigelsussman.comThe cats spread through Robinhood.
Into conference rooms. Into company traditions. Even into the app.
Employees had a phrase for it:
Robinhood moved.
The cats followed.
In 2018, Nigel painted them again inside Robinhood's Menlo Park offices.
Eight years later,
he reopened the archive.
The original artist posted a forgotten crop from that 2018 mural.
He tagged it:
We didn't name them.
He did.
We didn't invent the name. The artist left it in the archive.
Posted publicly by the original artist, with the tag that gave this project its name.
View original postIndependent artwork by Nigel Sussman. No endorsement of this token is claimed or implied.
The cats were already there.
The walls were real.
The history is public.
Now they're leaving the wall.
The mural is the world. The raised-paw cat is the face. Every cat on the wall can become a post, a reaction, a chapter — without touching the core identity.
NUMMUS
Latin: coin, money.
Years before Robinhood Chain, public developer work documented Robinhood crypto endpoints under nummus.robinhood.com.
No claim of an intentional connection. A rabbit hole, labelled as one.
From Robinhood's walls to Robinhood Chain. No utility pitch. The story is the product; the buying flow stays simple.
Robinhood Chain
0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Placeholder address — replace before launch.
The archive is what separates ROMANCATS from a made-up meme narrative. Every claim above has a source below.