A smart contract deployed to record marriages on the Ethereum blockchain.
Historical Significance
The Ethereum Marriage registry is an early example of Ethereum being used for social and civil record applications rather than purely financial or token-based purposes.
Context
In early 2016, Ethereum developers were actively experimenting with real-world use cases to explore what decentralized computation and permanent public records could enable. This contract was deployed during a period of rapid experimentation following Ethereum’s 2015 launch, before standardized token interfaces and application patterns had fully emerged.
Key Facts
Description
The contract serves as a simple registry, using Ethereum’s state to persistently record marital relationships. It demonstrates the use of smart contracts for non-financial recordkeeping.
The Ethereum Marriage registry is an Ethereum smart contract deployed on January 2, 2016 by Hudson Jameson that allows marriages to be recorded on-chain as immutable entries.
Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Frontier Era
The initial release of Ethereum. A bare-bones implementation for technical users.