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ESSECHAIN(ESSE)

Token
0x4c65f9d41d36...0fb397f6f6f4
ByzantiumSource VerifiedEdit this contract
Deployed October 22, 2018 (7 years ago)Block 6,559,850

EsseChain (ESSE) is an ERC-20 token launched on Ethereum in October 2018 that distributed its 3-billion supply through an open on-chain claim function.

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Historical Significance

EsseChain (ESSE) is an ERC-20 token deployed to Ethereum mainnet on October 22, 2018, during the busy 2017–2018 wave of new Ethereum tokens. It has a fixed supply of 3 billion ESSE (8 decimals). Instead of running an ICO, EsseChain distributed its supply through an open, on-chain claim: any address could call the contract’s distribution function to receive a fixed allotment of tokens directly to its wallet, with the remainder allocated at deployment. This “free distribution” or airdrop-style model was a popular way for projects of the period to seed an initial holder base and community without a sale.

Like many launches in this window, EsseChain’s contract is built on the widely-shared SiaCashCoin free-distribution template — a commonly reused codebase for claim-based tokens at the time — adapted with EsseChain’s own name, symbol, supply, and distribution parameters (including an 8-decimal denomination and a custom per-claim schedule). Building on established, shared token code was, and remains, ordinary practice across the ERC-20 ecosystem.

One detail of that lineage survives in the deployed bytecode and aided verification: the contract kept an older-style function named SiaCashCoin() carried over from the template. In Solidity 0.4.x a function acts as the constructor only when its name exactly matches the contract, so after the rename this function remained as a regular public method in the runtime (selector 0x9a4b19e4). Ethereum History used the full bytecode to reconstruct and verify EsseChain’s source (near-exact match, solc 0.4.25). On-chain, EsseChain’s distribution has since completed and its claim function is now closed, leaving it as a small, self-contained record of the late-2018 claim-token era.

Token Information
Token Name
ESSECHAIN
Symbol
ESSE
Decimals
8
Key Facts
Deployment Block
6,559,850
Deployment Date
Oct 22, 2018, 02:05 AM
Code Size
3.7 KB
Gas at Deploy
1,164,583

Description

EsseChain (ESSE) is an ERC-20 token deployed to Ethereum mainnet on October 22, 2018. It has a fixed supply of 3 billion ESSE and distributed tokens through an open, on-chain claim function — an airdrop-style “free distribution” model in which participants called the contract directly to receive a fixed allotment rather than buying into a sale. It dates from the active late-2018 period of claim-based Ethereum token launches.

Source Verified

SolidityNear-exact bytecode match
Compiler: v0.4.25

EsseChain (ESSECHAIN/ESSE), Oct 22 2018 ERC-20 free-distribution airdrop token. A renamed copy of the verified SiaCashCoin airdrop template (0x74FD51a9...). Compiled with solc v0.4.25, optimizer ON, 200 runs: the deployed runtime bytecode matches on-chain byte-for-byte; only the trailing bzzr0 swarm/metadata hash differs (original source text not recovered) -> near_exact_match. Differs from SiaCashCoin only in name/symbol, decimals=8, the post-claim guard (toGive>1), and the per-claim decay div/mul(3333333). The contract was renamed to ESSECHAIN but its old-style constructor was left named SiaCashCoin(), so it is a callable public function in the runtime (selector 0x9a4b19e4) — the copy-paste artifact that identified the template lineage. Verified on Sourcify 2026-07-25 (runtime match) at https://sourcify.dev/#/lookup/0x4c65f9d41d367cb8f6d4810588d50fb397f6f6f4 ; also propagated to Routescan and Blockscout. VERIFIED ON ETHERSCAN 2026-07-25 (with EH attribution; Etherscan tolerates the swarm-hash diff as a partial match).

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Heuristic Analysis

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

Detected Type: Token

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes3,781
Unique Opcodes226
Jump Instructions230
Storage Operations86

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