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Wallet

DAO
0x1dbfc6daa0c5...961a570f5fe1
FrontierContract #12KSource VerifiedEdit this contract
Deployed March 9, 2016 (10 years ago)Block 1,119,721

An instance of the original Gav Wood multi-signature wallet, the most widely deployed contract in early Ethereum with over 16,000 siblings.

Frontier EraVerified Source

Historical Significance

The original Ethereum multi-signature wallet by Gavin Wood, with over 16,000 deployments making it the most widely used smart contract pattern in early Ethereum. This standalone version predates the Parity library-based variant that was exploited in July 2017 (0M hack) and frozen in November 2017 (80M locked by devops199). Unlike the Parity library version, standalone instances like this one were not affected by either incident.

Context

Deployed in March 2016 during the Homestead era. Multi-signature wallets were the primary security tool for managing ETH holdings before hardware wallets and more sophisticated custody solutions became available. This contract pattern, authored by Gavin Wood and published in the ethereum/dapp-bin repository, became the de facto standard for securing Ethereum funds. The later Parity version refactored the logic into a shared library to save gas on deployment, but that architectural decision introduced the vulnerability that devops199 exploited in November 2017, freezing 513,774 ETH (valued at 80M) across 587 wallets. The resulting EIP-999 proposal to recover the frozen funds was rejected by the Ethereum community, and the funds remain locked as of 2026.

Key Facts
Deployment Block
1,119,721
Deployment Date
Mar 9, 2016, 12:51 AM
Code Size
6.4 KB
Gas at Deploy
1,930,239
Transactions by Year
20162
20171

Description

An instance of the original Ethereum multi-signature wallet written by Gavin Wood (g@ethdev.com). This standalone implementation from ethereum/dapp-bin features multi-owner authorization, daily spending limits, and transaction confirmation by multiple signers. It uses three inherited contracts: multiowned for ownership management, daylimit for spending controls, and the main Wallet contract for transaction execution.

This instance was deployed on March 9, 2016 by an address funded from Poloniex (0x32be343b). The deployer moved approximately 1,344 ETH through this wallet before sending it onward to another address. Two deposits totaling roughly 10 ETH were later sent to this wallet from a separate address (0x4bb96091ee) in March 2016, and that ETH remains locked to this day.

In October 2016, the wallet received 167 self-destruct notifications from other contracts that named it as the beneficiary address, though none carried any ETH. One execute() call was made in October 2017, but no further activity followed.

This contract has over 16,000 siblings sharing identical bytecode, making it the most-deployed contract in Frontier and Homestead-era Ethereum. It is the predecessor to the later Parity multisig wallet that was involved in two major security incidents in 2017.

Source Verified

Etherscan verified
Heuristic Analysis

The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.

Detected Type: DAO
Contains SELFDESTRUCT opcode

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes6,546
Unique Opcodes240
Jump Instructions316
Storage Operations164

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