Unicorns(🦄)

This second Congress contract was deployed at block 988943 on February 11, 2016, by Alex Van de Sande (ENS: alex.vandesande.eth), approximately eight minutes after the first Congress deployment at block 988909. Both contracts implement the Democracy DAO pattern from the Ethereum Foundation blog series "Ethereum in practice part 2: how to build a better democracy in under a 100 lines of code" (December 4, 2015).

The contract shares the same source code as its predecessor at 0xa8c94f66f0c9add0f50ae91bfe985c03b5493511, including the custom Unicorns extensions (unicornAddress and priceOfAUnicornInFinney). The rapid re-deployment suggests avsa was iterating on constructor parameters or testing the deployment workflow again in the same session. Both contracts were deployed from the same address on the same day as the Unicorns NFT contract (block 988949).

The deployment of two functionally identical governance contracts within minutes of each other is a pattern consistent with Ethereum application development in early 2016, where developers frequently deployed and redeployed contracts to test configuration parameters using the Mist Wallet or geth console.

Alex Van de Sande's role at the Ethereum Foundation (2014 to 2018) included designing the Mist browser and Ethereum Wallet interface, co-founding ENS in 2017, and authoring the Democracy DAO tutorial series. His February 2016 deployment session is documented across multiple contracts including Unicorns (block 988949) and FoundationTipJar (block 988725).