The Rainbow-Cat (Part 12) — Crypto Stamp Fantastic Animals

Series Overview

The Fantastic Animals series is a twelve-part small-sheet collection issued by Philately Liechtenstein (Liechtensteinische Post AG) between 2022 and 2024. Each part features a playful vector-art animal character rendered in bold colours, paired with a digital counterpart. The series began with the Cat in Sunglasses in December 2022 and ran across roughly two and a half years of sequential releases.

This Release (Rainbow-Cat)

The Rainbow-Cat is the twelfth and final part of the Fantastic Animals series. It was issued on 12 December 2024 under product no. 297.24.19, with a face value of CHF 9.50. The total mintage is 5,000. As the closing chapter of the series, the Rainbow-Cat returns to the feline motif that opened the collection two years earlier, bookending the twelve-part arc.

Colour Variants

Like the rest of the series, the Rainbow-Cat is issued in several colour variants. Two layers must be kept apart here:

• Rainbow colour variant: 50 copies — the rarest variant of the edition.
• Standard colour variants: the remaining issue, approximately 4,950 copies combined (5,000 total minus the 50 rainbow copies).

The individual splits of the non-rainbow colours are not publicly documented, so only the combined figure can be stated.

A note on naming: the edition's motif is called "Rainbow-Cat," and the edition also contains a Rainbow colour variant. These are two different layers. "Rainbow-Cat" is the name of the animal character on the twelfth stamp; the "Rainbow" colour variant is one of the colour treatments applied to that character, and — following the same variant scheme as the whole series — it is the scarcest at 50 copies.

Technical Implementation & Authenticity

The Rainbow-Cat is a true tradeable NFT. This is the critical distinction from the earlier parts of the Fantastic Animals series. Liechtenstein's tradeable NFTs only began with the Crypto/Business Fox in September 2024; every Fantastic Animals part issued through August 2024 relied on OriginStamp blockchain hash-anchoring — a method that anchors a proof-of-existence hash on-chain rather than issuing a transferable token.

Because the Rainbow-Cat was issued in December 2024, after that cutover, it is a genuine tradeable token rather than a hash-anchored certificate. It is the only Fantastic Animals part to ship as a real NFT.

Design Attribution

The design is attributed to Isabella Gassner, a Liechtenstein-based designer confirmed for the 2024 crypto stamp editions. The Rainbow-Cat follows the series' established visual language: a playful, anthropomorphic animal character in a bold vector-art style.

Position in the Fantastic Animals Series

The Rainbow-Cat is the twelfth and final part of the Fantastic Animals series, closing an arc that began with the Cat in Sunglasses in December 2022. Its position at the end of the collection is doubly significant:

• It closes the loop thematically, returning to a cat motif to mirror the series opener.
• It marks a technical turning point, being the sole Fantastic Animals part issued as a tradeable NFT rather than an OriginStamp hash-anchored release.

As the concluding chapter, the Rainbow-Cat brings Liechtenstein's first small-sheet crypto stamp series to a close while pointing forward to the postal service's new generation of genuinely tradeable digital collectibles.