# What is WILDCOIN WILDCOIN is the decentralized finance (DeFi) lifeblood that fuels the WILD Platform and is the primary focus of this paper. WILDCOIN is an ERC-20 token built on OP Mainnet.\[1] OP Mainnet is a layer-2 scalability platform specifically designed to provide faster transactions at a fraction of the cost, helping to address Ethereum's scalability issues. The token has DeFi features written into the code (solidity) in that it is ownable, stakeable, and burnable with a known total supply and an immutable maximum supply and maximum fee structure. The WILDCOIN smart contract\[2] is built on a peer-to-peer network, allowing it to be read, authenticated, and verified by anyone with access to an internet connection. *WILDCOIN is inspired by "Worldcoin,"* a project designed to become the world's largest privacy-preserving human identity and financial network, giving everyone ownership. It aims to provide universal access to the global economy regardless of your country or background, establishing a place for all of us to benefit in the age of AI. It is well known that this effort will have a tremendous global impact on humanity.\[3] *WILDCOIN differs from Worldcoin in focus.* While both projects aim to enhance the human experience, WILDCOIN achieves this through animal preservation and pet care management. Animal preservation is essential to the human experience and the key to maintaining a healthy ecosystem balance on Earth. Our vision is to use technology to preserve biodiversity, food security, economic sustainability, social impact, and climate regulation. We believe that animal preservation starts with registration. Our go-to-market strategy relies on addressing pet care-specific problems while tapping into digital currencies' rapid growth to create early adoption momentum for the WILD Platform. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://whitepaper.wildcoin.ai/what-is-wildcoin.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.