ETHERLITE (LETH): May 2016 ERC-20, ConsenSys HumanStandardToken plus buy/sell at unitsOneEthCanBuy price. Supply 10^30; deployed 6 weeks before TheDAO.
Historical Significance
ETHERLITE is a textbook 2016 Bitcoin-themed-fork ICO token: the name and 10^30 supply are an obvious copy of Litecoin's 84 million supply against Bitcoin's 21 million, but the contract is just a standard ConsenSys Tokens deployment. The 5-day burst by deployer 0xe4282c8d... that produced TheDAC, ETHERLITE, and several TestN tokens captures the prototyping-frenzy moment immediately before TheDAO sale opened. None of these tokens accrued material traction; ETHERLITE has no transactions in years and the only meaningful trade history is the initial buy() bursts.
Context
Deployed early to mid May 2016, six weeks before TheDAO hard fork. Compiled with pre-0.4.7 solc (likely 0.3.5 or 0.3.6 native cpp-ethereum build). ETH was around 8 to 12 USD; the supply-to-ETH ratio at unitsOneEthCanBuy means LETH was effectively a fractional-share representation.
Token Information
Key Facts
Description
ETHERLITE (LETH) is a May 2016 ERC-20 token with totalSupply=10^30 raw units, decimals=2, deployed by 0xe4282c8d... (an anonymous prototyper who produced 27 contracts in 5 days, including 3 ETHERLITE deploys and 7 TheDAC clones, all in the runup to TheDAO sale).
Dispatcher selectors (14 total): name 06fdde03, totalSupply 18160ddd, transferFrom 23b872dd, decimals 313ce567, version 54fd4d50, unitsOneEthCanBuy 61e71839, balanceOf 70a08231, symbol 95d89b41, buy a6f2ae3a, transfer a9059cbb, approveAndCall cae9ca51, spentAllowance dc3080f2, allowance dd62ed3e, sell e4849b32. This is the signature set of the 2016 Solidity-docs 'TutorialToken' example (ConsenSys HumanStandardToken base plus public unitsOneEthCanBuy + buy() + sell()).
The pre-0.4.7 dispatcher shape (PUSH4 + EQ + JUMPI without DUP2) confirms the contract was compiled with solc 0.3.x or very early 0.4.x. The Bitcointalk branding 'a lite, faster fork of Ethereum, like Litecoin vs Bitcoin' is purely cosmetic; the contract is a stock ICO token with the buy/sell mint mechanism, not a separate chain.
Source Verified
Template identification only, not a byte-for-byte source-code crack. The selector signature matches the 2016 'TutorialToken' example from the Solidity documentation (ConsenSys HumanStandardToken + unitsOneEthCanBuy + buy() + sell()). I have not produced an exact compiled match.
Historian Categories
Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Homestead Era
The first planned hard fork. Removed the canary contract, adjusted gas costs.