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Devcon2(Devcon2)

Token
Part of The Piper Merriam Collection
0xdd94de9cfe06...08317d8808b6
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Deployed November 16, 2016 (9 years ago)Block 2,634,594

An ERC-20 token deployed by Piper Merriam for Devcon2 attendees that served as an early on-chain proof of attendance.

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Historical Significance

The Devcon2 Token is historically significant as one of the earliest Ethereum token implementations designed specifically to represent participation or attendance rather than serve purely financial use cases. Its structure anticipated later interest in event-based and collectible tokens that culminated in the formal Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP) concept.

Context

In late 2016 the Ethereum ecosystem was still exploring diverse applications of smart contracts and tokens. Devcon2 took place in September 2016 as the second annual developer conference, and subsequent work by Piper Merriam to issue an attendance token occurred in this period of experimental token use. The idea of using tokens as on-chain proofs of event attendance influenced later protocols such as POAP, which emerged as a standardized approach to event tokens.

Token Information
Token Name
Devcon2
Symbol
Devcon2
Decimals
0
Key Facts
Deployer
Piper Merriam(0xd3cda9...293601)
Deployment Block
2,634,594
Deployment Date
Nov 16, 2016, 05:57 AM
Code Size
4.7 KB
Gas at Deploy
1,354,388
Transactions by Year
201617
201719
20181
20191
20201
20211

Description

The contract functioned as a limited-supply token exclusively distributed to Devcon2 conference participants, with transfer behavior and balances constrained to reflect individual attendee tokens. Although deployed before the formal idea of POAPs, its pattern of issuing a token to signify attendance at an event was referenced in later discussions of proof-of-attendance protocols.

The Devcon2 Token (MainnetIndividualityTokenRoot) is an Ethereum smart contract deployed by Piper Merriam on November 16, 2016, to issue an ERC-20-compliant identity token to attendees of Ethereum's second developer conference (Devcon2), held in Shanghai in September 2016.

Each Ethereum address could hold at most one token, and each token was associated with an immutable string identity value. The contract included a hard minting cutoff at 8:00 AM Shanghai time on September 22, 2016 — after which no new tokens could ever be created, permanently fixing the total supply. Tokens were compiled with Solidity 0.3.6 and linked against a separate TokenLib library contract.

The contract was ERC-20 compliant but added constraints reflecting its non-fungible, one-per-person nature: transfer, transferFrom, and approve functions omitted the value parameter (always 1). Additional functions like ownerOf, tokenId, and isTokenOwner allowed querying token ownership. An upgrade mechanism enabled holders to migrate tokens to new addresses.

Piper Merriam published the full source code and a companion Token Explorer web app at devcon2-token.com, along with example code showing how to build survey and voting contracts on top of the token data. A community member later wrapped it with an ERC-721 interface, making it visible on OpenSea as a collectible.

The Devcon2 Token is one of the earliest on-chain implementations of the concept that became known as Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP). While POAP did not formally launch until ETHDenver 2019, Merriam's 2016 experiment established the core pattern: issuing a non-transferable identity token to prove physical participation in an event.

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Heuristic Analysis

The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.

Detected Type: Token
Has ERC-20-like patterns

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes4,815
Unique Opcodes204
Jump Instructions283
Storage Operations78

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