Minimal Homestead-era ETH forwarder, first of 805 identical siblings from March 2016. Forwards msg.value to a hardcoded owner address. Source verified by EthereumHistory, byte-for-byte exact match.
Key Facts
Description
This contract is the first of 805 identical Homestead-era ETH forwarders deployed starting March 21, 2016. Each has a single payable fallback that immediately forwards msg.value to a hardcoded owner address stored in state slot 0, emitting a Deposit(owner, value) event on success and throwing on send failure. Pre-metadata era (no Swarm/CBOR tail), so the reconstructed source produces byte-for-byte identical runtime bytecode when compiled with solc 0.1.6+commit.d41f8b7c optimizer ON.
Proof: cartoonitunes/awesome-ethereum-proofs, folder forwarder-homestead-0xd8681c95.
Source Verified
Exact byte-for-byte match on 150-byte runtime with solc 0.1.6+commit.d41f8b7c optimizer ON. Pre-metadata era (no swarm hash tail). Cluster: 805+ identical-runtime deployments starting March 21, 2016. Also verified on Etherscan with EthereumHistory attribution.
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.
Bytecode Overview
Verified Source Available
Source verified through compiler archaeology and exact bytecode matching.
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// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
contract Forwarder {
address owner;
event Deposit(address _to, uint _value);
function () {
if (owner.send(msg.value)) {
Deposit(owner, msg.value);
} else {
throw;
}
}
}