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CryptoColors(COLOR)

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0x3116c449b898...42300bef9b96
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Deployed February 3, 2018 (8 years ago)Block 5,024,415

February 2018 hot-potato collectible game on Ethereum. Five tokens: Red, Blue, Lime, Yellow, Orange — each storing R/G/B values on-chain.

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Historical Significance

A small, self-contained early Ethereum NFT contract from the CryptoKitties-imitator wave of early 2018, distinguished by its compact five-token set, on-chain RGB encoding, and minimalist scope (no COO role, no separate name/symbol functions, no implementsERC721 marker). Source byte-for-byte reproduced from the deployed bytecode.

Context

Era. February 2018 was the heart of the early Ethereum collectibles wave: CryptoKitties had launched in late 2017, CryptoCelebrities had spun up in January 2018, and over the following weeks dozens of fork-of-a-fork projects appeared on mainnet — most of them sharing the CelebrityToken hot-potato template by Axiom Zen / Dieter Shirley. CryptoColors arrived during this brief window, taking the template and stripping it down rather than building on it.

Template variations. Where CryptoCelebrities was a public-facing collectible game with a roster of celebrity tokens and a 6% dev fee, CryptoColors trimmed the design: only five tokens, RGB values rather than a name-and-image, no COO role (the CEO does all administration), no implementsERC721() marker, and no lowercase name() / symbol() getters. The dev fee was raised to 7%, but the three pricing tiers were retained (with thresholds adjusted to 0.05 / 0.5 ETH and multipliers 200/150/115 over 93).

The deployer. 0xfea4bc27a8af27fb317bd1a8538083f648202d1f is an EOA with no ENS, no public tags, no published code repository, and no other known related contracts. The deployment funds and the five minted tokens were sent to addresses controlled by the same operator. The contract has run quietly since: a handful of transfers and one round of purchases, no resales.

Token Information
Token Name
CryptoColors
Symbol
COLOR
Key Facts
Deployment Block
5,024,415
Deployment Date
Feb 3, 2018, 05:17 PM
Code Size
7.6 KB
Gas at Deploy
2,209,526
Transactions by Year
20187
202613

Description

CryptoColors is a "hot-potato" collectible game on Ethereum, deployed February 3, 2018. It mints five ERC-721-draft tokens, each representing a named color whose RGB values are stored on-chain in the token's struct: Red (255,0,0), Blue (0,0,255), Lime (0,255,0), Yellow (255,255,0), and Orange (255,127,0).

The hot-potato mechanic. Anyone can take a Color from its current owner by calling purchase(uint256) and paying the current sellingPrice. The contract retains a 7% dev fee and forwards 93% to the previous owner. After every forced sale the price ratchets up: 200/93× (≈2.15×) while the price is below 0.05 ETH, 150/93× (≈1.61×) up to 0.5 ETH, and 115/93× (≈1.24×) beyond. The starting price for every Color is 0.001 ETH.

On-chain storage. Each Color is a struct { uint8 r; uint8 g; uint8 b; string name }, with r/g/b packed into a single 32-byte slot using Solidity 0.4.x's automatic field packing. The companion view function getColor(uint256) returns (uint256 r, uint256 g, uint256 b, string name, uint256 sellingPrice, address owner) — all six fields read directly from contract storage.

Lineage. A fork of the CelebrityToken (CryptoCelebrities) template, with the central struct replaced by Color, three pricing stages adjusted to 200/150/115 over 93, no cooAddress (CEO-only contract), no separate name()/symbol() getters (only the uppercase NAME()/SYMBOL() constants), and explicit require(uint8(_x) == _x) range checks on the RGB creation arguments.

On-chain activity. The deployer (0xfea4bc27a8af27fb317bd1a8538083f648202d1f) minted all five Colors at creation, and the contract has seen modest trading since: as of May 2026 Red sits at 0.0099 ETH (purchased three times from the 0.001 ETH start), while Blue, Lime, Yellow and Orange sit at 0.00215 ETH (purchased once each). All five are currently held by a single owner (0x4c8a531b6e0ff5438DB7114679c1536a114BF9c5).

Source Verified

SolidityExact bytecode match(7,791 bytes)
Compiler: 0.4.18+

Source reconstructed from on-chain bytecode (CelebrityToken-derived template with Color struct having packed uint8 r,g,b fields and a string name). Runtime and creation bytecode byte-identical to on-chain except for source metadata swarm hash. Sourcify v2 reports match (full + creation).. Optimizer: OFF

Heuristic Analysis

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

Detected Type: other

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes7,791
Unique Opcodes238
Jump Instructions346
Storage Operations104

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