First mineable Litecoin on Ethereum, EIP-918 clone deployed April 2018
Historical Significance
The first mineable Litecoin on Ethereum and one of the earliest EIP-918 clones to follow 0xBitcoin into production. Its deployment in April 2018 marks the beginning of the clone wave that produced over 130 EIP-918 contracts in the months after 0xBitcoin's launch, the majority of which were deployed and never mined.
Context
Deployed two months after 0xBitcoin's February 2018 launch, when the EIP-918 standard and reference contract were fresh, open source, and verified on Etherscan. Forking the template, changing the name to a recognizable crypto brand, and redeploying was a low-effort path to a new mineable token — a pattern that produced dozens of similar contracts that spring.
Token Information
Key Facts
Description
0xLitecoin is one of the earliest EIP-918 clones of 0xBitcoin, deployed in April 2018 just over two months after the original 0xBitcoin contract went live. It applies the same mineable-token mechanic — callers submit a nonce whose hash falls below the current difficulty target and receive newly minted tokens — to a Litecoin-themed asset.
Like most EIP-918 clones, it inherits the no-ICO, no-premine framing of 0xBitcoin: every token in supply was distributed by mining. The contract is part of the wave of more than 130 EIP-918 deployments that followed 0xBitcoin's launch.
Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Byzantium Era
First Metropolis hard fork. Added zk-SNARK precompiles, REVERT opcode, and staticcall.