Historical Significance
Target is the storage substrate underneath three different proxy contracts in Bertani's September 17 experimental cluster. Studying the bytecode here alongside the proxies gives a complete picture of how early Solidity developers built layered contract architectures: a bare storage cell, with multiple frontends that forwarded calls into it. This pattern foreshadows the proxy/implementation split that became EIP-1967 and OpenZeppelin upgradable proxies years later.
Context
Deployed seven weeks after Ethereum mainnet launch (July 30, 2015), during the Frontier era. Solidity v0.1.1 was the current compiler. Bertani was experimenting with cross-contract call patterns, building forwarding chains and access control structures that would later become standard idioms.
Key Facts
Description
Verified with soljson-v0.1.1+commit.6ff4cd6 and optimizer ON.
Source Verified
Backfilled from awesome-ethereum-proofs PR #49.
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.
Bytecode Overview
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Source verified through compiler archaeology and exact bytecode matching.
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contract Target {
uint stored;
function set(uint256 x) {
stored = x;
}
function get() returns (uint) {
return stored;
}
}