A fixed-supply token with transfers and third-party allowances, deployed October 2016.
Historical Significance
This is the tutorial revision that added delegated spending, and it did it with approveAndCall: the allowance is set and the spender is called in the same transaction, so a contract learns about its allowance at the moment it is granted. It solved the problem ERC-20's plain approve leaves open, that a contract cannot notice an approval, and it was dropped from the standard anyway because it requires the spender to be a contract. The idea returned years later as ERC-777 and ERC-1363.
Context
By late 2016 ERC-20 had settled the interface a token was expected to answer, and the ethereum.org tutorial was still where most people copied one from. OpenZeppelin's contracts were not yet the default, so the code behind a token of this period is usually the tutorial's, with the constructor arguments changed and nothing else.
Token Information
Key Facts
Description
A token from the ethereum.org tutorial. Balances sit in a public balanceOf mapping and transfer(to, value) moves them, throwing rather than returning false when the sender is short and checking the recipient's balance for overflow before adding to it. An allowance mapping lets a holder authorise another address to spend a limited amount through transferFrom. ApproveAndCall sets the allowance and calls receiveApproval on the spender in the same transaction, so a spending contract learns of its allowance at the moment it is granted. There is no owner and no way to create further units: the supply written at deployment is the whole supply. It was deployed as Alien, with the symbol ๐ฝ and an opening supply of 10,000 base units at 2 decimal places and it answers standard() with the string Token 0.1, the label the tutorial used before ERC-20 had a number.
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The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Tangerine Whistle Era
Emergency fork to address DoS attacks. Repriced IO-heavy opcodes.
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// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
contract tokenRecipient { function receiveApproval(address _from, uint256 _value, address _token, bytes _extraData); }
contract token {
string public standard = 'Token 0.1';
string public name;
string public symbol;
uint8 public decimals;
uint256 public totalSupply;
mapping (address => uint256) public balanceOf;
mapping (address => mapping (address => uint256)) public allowance;
event Transfer(address indexed from, address indexed to, uint256 value);
function token(uint256 initialSupply, string tokenName, uint8 decimalUnits, string tokenSymbol) {
balanceOf[msg.sender] = initialSupply;
totalSupply = initialSupply;
name = tokenName;
symbol = tokenSymbol;
decimals = decimalUnits;
}
function transfer(address _to, uint256 _value) {
if (balanceOf[msg.sender] < _value) throw;
if (balanceOf[_to] + _value < balanceOf[_to]) throw;
balanceOf[msg.sender] -= _value;
balanceOf[_to] += _value;
Transfer(msg.sender, _to, _value);
}
function approve(address _spender, uint256 _value) returns (bool success) {
allowance[msg.sender][_spender] = _value;
return true;
}
function approveAndCall(address _spender, uint256 _value, bytes _extraData) returns (bool success) {
tokenRecipient spender = tokenRecipient(_spender);
if (approve(_spender, _value)) {
spender.receiveApproval(msg.sender, _value, this, _extraData);
return true;
}
}
function transferFrom(address _from, address _to, uint256 _value) returns (bool success) {
if (balanceOf[_from] < _value) throw;
if (balanceOf[_to] + _value < balanceOf[_to]) throw;
if (_value > allowance[_from][msg.sender]) throw;
balanceOf[_from] -= _value;
balanceOf[_to] += _value;
allowance[_from][msg.sender] -= _value;
Transfer(_from, _to, _value);
return true;
}
function () {
throw;
}
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