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The prototype token that inspired ERC-20, deployed by Fabian Vogelsteller on November 3, 2015, sixteen days before he submitted the ERC-20 proposal.

bitcoin: An early experimental Ethereum token created in 2015

Frontier-era mineable token (Feb 8, 2016). Anyone can call Mint(quota) to receive 100*quota CLC from the contract's stash.

The Unicorn token (🦄) awarded for donating to the Ethereum Foundation tip jar, deployed 11 February 2016.

The Love token (W♥) - early Ethereum proof-of-work token from March 2016.

Buy/sell token deployed by an early Ethermine miner 7 days after the Homestead fork, still active 10 years later.

A token created by the Ethereum Foundation's Alex Van de Sande (avsa) in March 2016 to demonstrate on-chain token swaps, upgrades, and quadratic voting.

Z≡N Coin (symbol Z≡N), an early 2016 ERC-20-style token with built-in buy/sell marketplace at a 10× spread. Uses the ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken extended template

The first Ethereum token to implement an on-chain, increasing-difficulty hash-based minting mechanism.

2016 ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken template token (Ħ) deployed in the TheDAO cluster, with a buy/sell marketplace, admin minting and account freezing.

A 2016 ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken (Japanese 「金」, "gold"), 100 supply, sold via buy() at 1000 wei/token.

An infinite-supply ERC-20-compatible token where every transfer mints a hug. Deployed August 23, 2016 by Jon Romero as a social experiment and Ethereum tutorial

A 2017 ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken. 777,777,777 VEGAS sold via buy() at 1 wei per token, standard "VegasCoin 2.1".

A satirical 2017 ICO parody with a supply of 151, matching the original Pokemon count, zero pre-mine, and a deployer named ShitCoinGod.

CryptoCats pre-launch test contract (Nov 2017). The first version to introduce cat names and the allInitialOwnersAssigned() initialization pattern.

The first NFT game to achieve mainstream adoption, introducing on-chain collectibles, breeding mechanics, and ERC-721 ownership at global scale.

The original EIP-918 mineable token, Bitcoin's proof-of-work on Ethereum

First 0xBitcoin clone, deployed 10 days after 0xBTC. Permanently bricked after 12 mints by a reward dust term and a recursive era-cap bug.

ERC-721 collectible card game of historical figures. mineCard() costs 0.001 ETH and randomly assigns a figure via block.timestamp randomness.

The first Pokémon NFT collection on Ethereum (March 2018). 25 total Gen-1 Pokémon.

April 2018 'Lambo' ERC-20 with a permissionless mint(), one free token per address. mintMore() gives 3 more LAMBO for a 1 finney payment.

April 2018 'Lambo' ERC-20 with a permissionless mint(), one free token per address. mintMore() gives 10 LAMBO for 1 wei, which is effectively free.

First mineable Litecoin on Ethereum, EIP-918 clone deployed April 2018

Second 0xDogecoin clone, deployed 2018-04-14 by the same address as 0xLTC. First working mineable Dogecoin on Ethereum, virgin until 2026.

First mineable Bitcoin Cash on Ethereum, EIP-918 clone deployed June 2018

EsseChain (ESSE) is an ERC-20 token launched on Ethereum in October 2018 that distributed its 3-billion supply through an open on-chain claim function.

The .eth registrar that turns every name into an ERC-721 token, redeployed in January 2020 alongside the fixed registry.