The Cycloptic Purring Overlord: a cat-eared retro monitor with a single pixelated eye, animated

CYCLOPTICPURRINGOVERLORD

$CPO

In 2019, Robinhood's official design team shipped six account-state icons. Five had normal names. One was called "Bow to Your Cycloptic Purring Overlord Screensaver." It is still live today. We are simply doing what the file name told us to do.

CA TBA — deploying on Robinhood Chain

Exhibit A / Still live

Not a leak.
Not a rumor.
A file name.

Buried in Robinhood's official Dribbble portfolio is an icon literally named "Bow to Your Cycloptic Purring Overlord Screensaver." It is in the designer's own shot description, posted from the official Robinhood team account, and it is still online right now.

"From left to right: Add Funds · Verify Identity · Finish Sign Up · Bow to Your Cycloptic Purring Overlord Screensaver · Verify Deposit · Go to Watchlist"

A 2019 set called "Account State icons" — six small icons for six ordinary moments inside the app. Five are totally normal. One is named after a cat overlord. Someone on that team was having fun, and nobody ever took it down.

  • 01 Add Funds
  • 02 Verify Identity
  • 03 Finish Sign Up
  • 04 Bow to Your Cycloptic Purring Overlord Screensaver
  • 05 Verify Deposit
  • 06 Go to Watchlist
Screenshot of the Robinhood Account State icons on Dribbble, showing the cat-eared monitor icon alongside its caption naming it the Cycloptic Purring Overlord Screensaver

Source: dribbble.com/shots/4906516-Account-State-icons — posted by the official Robinhood team account. Icon #4 is the cat-eared monitor with one pixelated eye.

DESIGNER

Daniel Haire

On Robinhood's design team when the set shipped. Now Head of Design at Altruist. He wrote the caption. He named the overlord.

ANIMATOR

Victor Bivol

Credited directly in the post — "animated by that real solid animator dude." The overlord was not just drawn. It was made to move.

THE ARTIFACT

The Screensaver

A retro TV/monitor with cat ears and a single pixel eye — almost certainly the idle state, given the label. It waits. It watches. It purrs.

The Doctrine

Deliberate absurdist humor,
hidden inside a normal UI project.

That is all it ever was. A designer at a brokerage app looked at an idle-state screensaver, saw a one-eyed cat monitor staring back, and typed the truth into the file name. Six years later the joke is still sitting on the internet with the company's name on it. $CPO is the fan club that formed around it.

TENET 01

It watches the candles

One eye. No blinking — well, mostly. Green up, green down, the Overlord's gaze never leaves the chart.

TENET 02

It purrs at volume

Not a roar. A purr. The Overlord does not need to shout to command a room full of silhouetted cats.

TENET 03

It was always there

Idle state. Screensaver. Waiting for someone to notice. In 2026, on Robinhood Chain, someone finally did.

Canonical Command

Bow to Your Cycloptic Purring Overlord.

Robinhood Design Team, 2019

Tokenomics

One eye. Zero tricks.

$CPO is a community memecoin built on Robinhood Chain around a piece of real, verifiable design history. No presale games, no hidden allocations, no promises about your money.

$CPO
Ticker
1,000,000,000
Total Supply
0 / 0
Buy / Sell Tax
Robinhood Chain
Network
LIQUIDITY

Locked & burned

LP tokens burned at launch. The pool belongs to the Overlord, and the Overlord does not withdraw.

CONTRACT

Ownership renounced

No mint function, no blacklist, no pause switch. Once deployed, nobody holds the keys — not even the cats.

DISTRIBUTION

100% to the congregation

Full supply into the open market at launch. Every holder joins the same way: by bowing.

The Ascension Protocol

Roadmap

Phase 01 — Idle State

Discovery

The file name is found. The screenshot spreads. The Overlord is identified, sourced, and confirmed live on Robinhood's own portfolio. Community forms around a six-year-old joke.

Phase 02 — Boot Sequence

Deployment on Robinhood Chain

$CPO deploys. Liquidity added and burned, ownership renounced, contract published here and everywhere. Charts go live. The eye opens.

Phase 03 — Signal Broadcast

The Congregation

Listings, trackers, and community channels. Meme arsenal, sticker packs, and the screensaver rebuilt as an actual downloadable screensaver — because it deserves to exist.

Phase 04 — Full Purr

Overlord Everywhere

On-chain lore archive of the original shot, collabs across Robinhood Chain, and a permanent monument to the one designer who typed something true into a caption box in 2019.

Initiation

How to bow

Four steps. The Overlord is patient, but not that patient.

01

Get a wallet

Set up a wallet that supports Robinhood Chain and fund it with the chain's gas token.

02

Copy the CA

Take the contract address from the top of this page. Only from this page. Verify it twice.

03

Swap for $CPO

Paste the CA into a Robinhood Chain DEX, set your slippage, and confirm the swap.

04

Bow

Join the silhouettes. Face the monitor. Purring is optional but strongly encouraged.

Interrogate the Monitor

FAQ

Is the "Cycloptic Purring Overlord" thing actually real?

Yes. It is a real icon name in a real, still-live Dribbble shot titled "Account State icons," posted from Robinhood's official team account in 2019. The caption lists six icons, and the fourth is named "Bow to Your Cycloptic Purring Overlord Screensaver." You can read it yourself: dribbble.com/shots/4906516.

Who made it?

Designer Daniel Haire, who was on Robinhood's design team at the time and is now Head of Design at Altruist. The animation is credited in the same post to Victor Bivol. Neither of them is involved with this token in any way.

Is $CPO affiliated with Robinhood?

No. $CPO is an independent, community-created memecoin. It is not issued, endorsed, sponsored, or approved by Robinhood Markets, Inc., Altruist, Dribbble, or any of the designers named on this page. We are fans of a file name, nothing more.

What chain is it on?

Robinhood Chain. The contract address is published at the top of this page at launch — treat any address from any other source as fake.

What is the utility?

A cat-eared monitor with one pixelated eye has been quietly watching a brokerage app's idle screen since 2019. That is the utility. $CPO is a memecoin: no yield, no revenue, no roadmap to a product. Buy it because the lore is funny and real, or do not buy it at all.

Will I make money?

Probably not. Memecoins are extremely volatile and most go to zero. Nothing on this site is financial advice, and you should never spend money you cannot afford to lose entirely.