Vitalik Buterin ad auction registry contract (Oct 2015). From dapp-bin ether_ad project. Stores URLs and winners for 8 simultaneous one-phase and two-phase auct
Key Facts
Description
An early Ethereum ad auction system deployed by Vitalik Buterin in October 2015, part of the ether_ad dapp from ethereum/dapp-bin. The adStorer contract manages 8 auction slots (mix of OnePhaseAuction and TwoPhaseAuction contracts). Winners of each auction can store a URL and address. The adStorer was initialized by deploying and linking the individual auction contracts.
Source: ethereum/dapp-bin ether_ad/adStorer.sol (commits 46b9554 through 40b8c07b, Oct-Nov 2015). The exact intermediate version deployed was not committed to the public repo. All 6 function selectors verified against the dapp-bin source.
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.