Giving
How Token Tails Gets Money to a Real Cat Shelter
Free cat games, one real shelter, and payouts anyone can check. Here is who pays what, where it goes, and how to verify it.
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Cat games, honest giving, and the proof
Guides to our free cat games, how giving reaches Pink Paw in Kaunas, Lithuania, and the open-source code that lets anyone check every payout.
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I want to play
Free cat games in your browser, no sign-up needed to start.
I want to help
How giving reaches Pink Paw in Kaunas, and how to check every payout yourself.
I build things
The open-source (MIT) contracts and SDK behind every shelter payout.
Games
Free cat games in your browser
Games
Cat Knocking Things Off the Table: The Game (Bad Cat Daily)
Be the cat that knocks the glass off the counter. How a Bad Cat Daily run works, how scoring works, and tips for a bigger score before the human turns around.
5 min read
Games
Games Like Fireboy and Watergirl: Two-Character Puzzles
Love steering two heroes through the same room? Five two-character puzzle games, from a free two-cat stealth puzzle in your browser to couch co-op classics.
4 min read
Games
Games Where You Play as a Cat: 8 to Try (4 Free)
Four well-known paid games where you are the cat, and four free ones that open in a browser tab, with platform, genre and session length for each.
5 min read
Giving
How giving reaches Pink Paw
Giving
12 Free Ways to Help Animal Shelters (Online and Off)
No money? You can still help a shelter. Twelve free things that make a difference, with an honest note on which ones move real money and which raise awareness.
5 min read
Giving
A Charity Gift for a Cat Lover: Name a Cat at Moon Rave
The best gift for someone who has everything and loves cats: a gift to a cat shelter in their name. How to do it at a local shelter, as a memorial, or on Moon Rave.
5 min read
Giving
Giving Tuesday 2026: How to Help Animal Shelters
Giving Tuesday 2026 falls on Tuesday 1 December. A giver's guide for animal and cat shelters: what to check first, free and paid ways to help, and how to see your gift arrive.
4 min read
Cats
Cats, strays and the shelters that help them
Cats
Black Cat Myths: Are Black Cats Overlooked in Shelters?
The idea that black cats rarely find homes is mostly a myth. Here is what the shelter data says, where the superstitions come from, and how to help the black cats at your local shelter.
6 min read
Cats
Bringing a Rescue Cat Home: The First Two Weeks
A rescue cat settles best in one quiet room, with a routine and no pressure. Here is what to do before they arrive, on day one, in week one and beyond.
7 min read
Cats
How to Foster a Cat: What It Takes and How to Start
Fostering means caring for a shelter's cat at home until it finds a permanent one. Here is what it involves, what it costs (usually nothing), and how to get started.
7 min read
Build
Open-source shelter payouts for developers
Build
Add a Crypto Donation Button to Any Site (MIT Widget)
One script tag adds a donate button and a live 'shelters received' meter to any page or web game. The widget is MIT licensed, has no dependencies, and never holds the gift.
6 min read
Build
AI Agent Spending Limits On-Chain: A Capped USDC Contract
The safest spending limit for an AI agent is one the chain enforces, not the prompt. CappedSpender is a small MIT contract that caps every gift and every day, and can only pay a shelter split.
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Build
eth_getLogs Block Range Limits: Index Payouts Safely
Public RPCs refuse eth_getLogs ranges above their limit instead of trimming them. Field notes from the indexer behind a live, seven-chain donation ledger: windows, cursors, dedupe and honest totals.
6 min read
News
Token Tails news and milestones
News
The Token Tails Story: From a 2024 Idea to Shelter Payouts
A dated, honest timeline of Token Tails: the 2024 programmes, the pivots, what we stopped doing and why, and the cat games and shelter payouts we run today.
4 min read
News
Token Tails Joined the GameBCN Incubation Program (Dec 2024)
In December 2024 Token Tails got a place in GameBCN, Barcelona's program for video game studios. A short record of what it was and what followed.
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News
Token Tails Joins the thirdweb Accelerator
In November 2024 Token Tails joined the thirdweb accelerator for mentorship and developer tools.
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Why you can check what you read here
Every payout is public
Each ShelterSplit payout for Pink Paw is listed with a link to its transaction, so nobody has to take our word for it.
Open the payout ledgerDated, sourced figures
Articles link to live pages instead of printing numbers that age. Figures we report ourselves are marked company-reported.
See the impact pageOpen-source contracts
The contracts that split each payout are MIT-licensed and public: read them, test them, or use them for your own shelter.
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