A fixed-supply token with direct transfers only, deployed November 2016.
Historical Significance
The ethereum.org token tutorial is where most people who deployed a token in this period started, and this is its opening form: a balance mapping, a guarded subtraction and the metadata a wallet needs to show a name. It has no allowance, so nothing can spend on a holder's behalf and no exchange or escrow can be given a limit. That gap is exactly what ERC-20 was written to close, and copies like this one are the before picture.
Context
By late 2016 ERC-20 had settled the interface a token was expected to answer, and the ethereum.org tutorial was still where most people copied one from. OpenZeppelin's contracts were not yet the default, so the code behind a token of this period is usually the tutorial's, with the constructor arguments changed and nothing else.
Token Information
Key Facts
Description
A token from the ethereum.org tutorial. Balances sit in a public balanceOf mapping and transfer(to, value) moves them, throwing rather than returning false when the sender is short and checking the recipient's balance for overflow before adding to it. There is no owner and no way to create further units: the supply written at deployment is the whole supply. It was deployed as GTT, with the symbol GTT and an opening supply of 150,000,000,000,000,000 base units at 8 decimal places.
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Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Tangerine Whistle Era
Emergency fork to address DoS attacks. Repriced IO-heavy opcodes.
Bytecode Overview
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// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
contract token {
string public name;
string public symbol;
uint8 public decimals;
uint256 public totalSupply;
mapping (address => uint256) public balanceOf;
event Transfer(address indexed from, address indexed to, uint256 value);
function token(uint256 initialSupply, string tokenName, uint8 decimalUnits, string tokenSymbol) {
balanceOf[msg.sender] = initialSupply;
totalSupply = initialSupply;
name = tokenName;
symbol = tokenSymbol;
decimals = decimalUnits;
}
function transfer(address _to, uint256 _value) {
if (balanceOf[msg.sender] < _value) throw;
if (balanceOf[_to] + _value < balanceOf[_to]) throw;
balanceOf[msg.sender] -= _value;
balanceOf[_to] += _value;
Transfer(msg.sender, _to, _value);
}
function () {
throw;
}
}External Links
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