Throwaway contract created in bulk by a gas-burning factory; each copy stores only the bytes32 name "WeSkipTheLine".
Historical Significance
A physical trace of block stuffing. The attack itself leaves little onchain evidence beyond full blocks, but this operator chose to burn gas by creating contracts, so every stuffed transaction left permanent, labelled debris behind it. The name spells out the intent.
Key Facts
Description
Despite the name, this is not a token. The contract has one storage slot, a public bytes32 called Name, set once in the constructor, and nothing else. Every copy checked holds the same value, "WeSkipTheLine".
It was created by a factory contract whose only functions are Name() and consumeGas(uint256). Calling consumeGas(15) deployed fifteen of these contracts in one transaction, and the creating transaction used every unit of gas it was given. The contracts are the byproduct; the point was to consume block space. Filling blocks with expensive transactions so that nobody else's transaction can get in is block stuffing, and the stored name reads like the operator's own joke about it.
The transactions date from August 2018, a period when block stuffing was being used to win last-bidder games on Ethereum. The source was compiled with solc 0.4.22 and the optimizer off. The runtime code matches the deployed bytecode; only the trailing swarm metadata hash differs, because the EthereumHistory attribution comment changes the source text. Sourcify records this as a partial match and Etherscan shows it as verified.
Source Verified
Byzantium Era
First Metropolis hard fork. Added zk-SNARK precompiles, REVERT opcode, and staticcall.
Bytecode Overview
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// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
pragma solidity ^0.4.22;
contract Token {
bytes32 public Name;
function Token(bytes32 _name) public {
Name = _name;
}
}