Moca Network

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Mocaverse turned a membership badge into an identity network

An 8,888-character NFT club became an account and credential system, then placed MOCA beside it. The crucial distinction is what the token owns: it can buy access and influence defined programs, but it is not the NFT, the identity, the reputation record or a share of Animoca Brands.

Eight thousand eight hundred eighty-eight faces opened the door

Animoca Brands announced Mocaverse on December 15, 2022 as an 8,888-item profile-picture collection for people and companies in its portfolio. Its five tribes and four realms made the NFT a membership badge: learning, playing, building and doing good were community activities, not token-holder claims on Animoca’s businesses.

That origin still matters because four assets now share similar branding. A Moca NFT is a collectible membership item. Moca ID and the broader AIR Account are login identities. Credentials record issuer-approved facts and activity. MOCA, launched later, is the transferable fungible token.

The badge became a login and a proof

By late 2023, the team was testing AIR Kit and identity proofs. The 2025 rebrand to Moca Network made portable accounts and reputation the main product. Partners can let users sign in through email, Google or wallets, while issuers validate information and issue encrypted credentials. A user can generate a zero-knowledge proof without exposing the raw record to a verifier.

That architecture does not make every reputation statement permanent or self-sovereign. Issuers decide whether to approve a credential, and documented states include revoking, revoked and expired. MocaProof began as a beta on Moca Chain testnet in December 2025. Mocat, Realm Points, AIR Shop loyalty points and campaign rewards visualize or reward activity; none is automatically the MOCA balance.

MOCA created a market beside reputation

MOCA launched on July 11, 2024 with a fixed headline allocation of 8,888,888,888. Current products use staking power for priority in MocaList sales and eligibility for partner campaigns. Yet KYC, country exclusions, per-sale rules and available allocation remain decisive. AIR Shop can use crypto, cards and its own loyalty points, so an account may participate without turning MOCA into a universal payment claim.

The MiCA paper draws two boundaries and one awkward entity conflict. It calls MOCA non-redeemable and non-interest-bearing and gives holders no ownership, dividend, corporate vote or claim against an existing legal entity. For admission to trading it names MDPR Limited as offeror and issuer, Moca Foundation as parent, and Moca (BVI) Limited as support for settling MDPR obligations; elsewhere the same paper says Moca Foundation issued the token. The TON deal was a foundation-level token swap and US$20 million incentive reserve, while identity interoperability remained future work rather than a wallet-level right.

A fixed home token travels through administered bridges

The Ethereum contract is unusually narrow. It minted the full supply once to a treasury, exposes no owner, callable mint, pause or upgrade path, and lets a holder burn only that holder’s tokens. A live Ethereum read still returned 8,888,888,888 units and 18 decimals.

Omnichain movement adds a separate control layer. Ethereum tokens lock in adapter 0x2B11…884D while remote OFTs mint representations. A live read found that adapter owned by Safe 0xcc29…7229 with a two-of-three threshold. Owners can set peers, pairwise daily limits, exemptions, operators and delegates; operators can reset peers and LayerZero delegates configure or clear messages. The home token’s immutability therefore does not make bridge operation permissionless, and remote representations are not new economic issuance on top of the locked supply.

The public roadmap still meets a private mainnet

Current official pages describe two different stages at once. Node instructions call EVM chain ID 2288 a private mainnet and require an API key, while the AIR environment table still marks the public mainnet RPC and explorer “coming soon” and says production credential validation begins once mainnet is available. The public beta uses testnet ID 222888. Gas, validator staking, data storage and onchain governance therefore remain documented designs whose broad public availability is unfinished.

Control also sits in allocation and product terms. The 20% ecosystem-and-treasury pool vests for 48 months from launch; team and adviser cliffs passed in January 2026 and their linear releases are underway. The 13% strategic-partner schedule still says TBC. Moca Foundation markets governance through MIPs, yet we did not verify a live proposal portal or executed holder vote. The network has grown beyond the NFT, while several of its strongest token promises still depend on operators, integrations and a public chain that has not fully opened.

How the project changed

  1. 2022-12-15
    An NFT clubhouse is announced

    Animoca Brands introduces 8,888 Moca profile pictures as an ecosystem membership collection.

  2. 2023-03-09
    All 8,888 Moca NFTs are minted

    Animoca Brands reports completion of MocaMint for shareholders, employees, investees, partners and supporters.

  3. 2023 late
    AIR identity takes shape

    AIR Kit and Moca ID begin turning actions and affiliations into reusable credentials.

  4. 2024-04-24
    The CoinList community sale opens

    The sale window begins at US$0.03938 with KYC and a staged unlock schedule.

  5. 2024-07-11
    MOCA launches

    The fungible utility token goes live with a fixed 8,888,888,888-unit supply.

  6. 2024-07-22
    TON foundations exchange tokens

    A token swap and US$20 million combined incentive reserve accompany planned identity integration.

  7. 2025-06-03
    Moca Network replaces the club frame

    The project presents AIR identity infrastructure as its organizing product.

  8. 2025-12-01
    MocaProof opens in beta

    A credential-driven reputation interface launches on Moca Chain testnet.

  9. 2026-03-06
    AIR reaches a reported 3.3 million accounts

    The project publishes the figure during its third-anniversary campaign.

Evidence and primary sources

Last evidence review: 2026-09-05

What is Moca Network?

Mocaverse is the original NFT community that evolved into Moca Network. MOCA is its separate fungible utility token; AIR Account, Moca ID, credentials and reputation are identity products.

What problem does Moca Network solve?

Web services keep identity, loyalty and access in separate silos. Moca Network tries to let one account carry issuer-backed credentials and reputation across partner applications.

How does Moca Network work?

Partners integrate AIR Kit for login, wallet and credentials. Issuers approve encrypted credentials; users prove selected facts with zero-knowledge proofs. MOCA can pay or stake for defined network services, while bridges lock Ethereum MOCA and mint remote representations.

Key facts

  • Mocaverse was announced December 15, 2022 with 8,888 NFTs.
  • MOCA launched July 11, 2024; Ethereum address 0xF944…e8c5 has 18 decimals and 8,888,888,888 total units.
  • The Ethereum home token has no owner, mint, pause or upgrade path. Its live adapter is owned by a 2-of-3 Safe, and bridge operators and LayerZero delegates retain separate powers.
  • MOCA is separate from Moca NFTs, Moca ID, AIR Account, credentials, Realm Points and AIR Shop points.
  • The MiCA paper makes MOCA non-redeemable and non-interest-bearing and gives no equity, dividend, corporate vote, legal-entity claim, deposit guarantee or investor-compensation protection.
  • MocaProof launched on testnet; current mainnet documentation describes private access and public production as pending.
  • Strategic-partner vesting remains TBC; ecosystem-and-treasury vesting runs 48 months.
  • For MiCA admission, MDPR Limited is named as offeror and issuer, with Moca Foundation as parent and Moca (BVI) Limited as the company that would settle MDPR obligations; the same paper also contains a conflicting project-description sentence attributing issuance to Moca Foundation.

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Frequently asked questions

Is MOCA the Moca NFT?

No. MOCA is fungible; the 8,888 Moca collection consists of separate NFTs.

Does MOCA own AIR reputation data?

No. Credentials and account data follow AIR and issuer rules; a token balance is separate.

Can MOCA be redeemed for cash or partner tokens?

The MiCA paper calls MOCA non-redeemable. Partner distributions and service uses have their own eligibility terms, and statutory investor-compensation and deposit-guarantee schemes do not cover the token.

Can the Ethereum supply be increased?

The verified home contract has no callable mint and was deployed with the full fixed supply.

Is every cross-chain contract immutable?

No. Official bridge code gives owners and delegates operational powers over limits, exemptions and messaging.

Is Moca Chain public mainnet fully live?

Current docs describe a private mainnet and still mark public AIR production endpoints as coming soon.

Does every MOCA holder vote today?

The Foundation describes MIPs, but this review did not verify a live portal or executed holder vote.

Who is the legal issuer of MOCA?

For its MiCA admission disclosure, MDPR Limited names itself as offeror and issuer and Moca Foundation as its parent. The same paper’s project description instead says Moca Foundation issued MOCA, so the public document is internally inconsistent.

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