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About Rare Friends
Rare Friends is a virtual pet NFT protocol on Robinhood Chain: each NFT carries its own onchain wallet, and pets accumulate token and ETH rewards through interactions such as activation, linking and leveling, with artwork rendered as onchain animation rather than hosted images.
It targets NFTs that are only images with no ongoing interaction, where most collections lose their use case after mint and secondary prices decay. Rare Friends makes interaction the yield source: half of each interaction fee is burned and half goes to a reward pool, and trading royalties flow there too, so activity produces output. After its September 2026 release, whitelist demand for the Genesis series far exceeded supply, and the token opened near an $18 million market cap before falling to about $2.5 million, with volatility and bot mints the main complaints.
Rare Friends is a virtual-pet NFT protocol launched by Poopie, co-founder of Doodles, on Robinhood Chain. After launch, it opened free minting for Genesis NFTs with a total supply of 1,024, obtainable via whitelist and tasks. The protocol set a conversion rate of 1 Genesis NFT to 1 million $RAREFRIEND tokens, creating a flywheel economy where NFTs collect crypto. The collection is now listed on OpenSea with a floor price around $5,999, indicating market recognition.
Launch and distribution: The token went live on Robinhood Chain in September via a fair-launch auction, reaching about an $18 million market cap on day one before cooling to roughly $2.5 million; the 1,024-piece Genesis collection minted free through a whitelist, with a floor near 3,200 USDG, up over 40% in a day on 2.3 million USDG of volume.
Incentives: Activating a Genesis costs 100,000 RF and carries a 2x reward weight; protocol fees stream to active positions in RF and WETH over seven days, with 39 ETH paid in week one and 5% of secondary sales flowing back to holders. The 48 unsold Genesis slots were converted to tokens and burned into Generations.
On September 10, 2026, Rare Friends launched on Robinhood Chain from Doodles co-founder Poopie, with each NFT carrying its own on-chain wallet and sharing protocol economy fees. The Genesis collection free-minted on September 14, capped at 1,024 NFTs with a whitelist near 33,000 wallets, and traded roughly 1,010 ETH (about $2.6 million) on OpenSea within a week. The $RAREFRIENDS token went live via a fair-launch auction, briefly reaching about $18 million market cap, and a $40,000-prize Vibeathon developer event ran from September 20 to 30.
Future strategy and roadmap: Poopie has outlined extending Rare Friends into physical hardware: Tamagotchi-style devices that "hardwire" a Rare Friend, which would make him the largest token buyer as he burns RF to embed an NFT into each device. The protocol will also keep expanding the Generations collection's permanent minting (hardwire), reward-weight upgrades and cross-collection mechanics, and deepen the in-NFT wallet's ability to hold and earn from real-world assets such as tokenized stocks.
Poopie (Scott Martin) — Founder of Rare Friends; also co-founder of Doodles, leading this on-chain virtual-pet NFT project (deployed on Robinhood Chain).