Augur Crowdsale

This contract collected ETH contributions during the Augur crowdsale, which ran from approximately August 17 to October 1, 2015. Augur, a decentralized prediction market platform, was the first decentralized application to conduct a crowdsale on the Ethereum blockchain after Ethereum's own genesis sale. The 45-day sale raised over $5.2 million, placing it among the top 25 most successful crowdfunding campaigns of all time at that point.

Augur was co-founded by Joey Krug and Jack Peterson under the auspices of the Forecast Foundation. The project aimed to create a decentralized prediction market where users could create and trade shares in the outcome of real-world events, with a reputation token (REP) used to incentivize honest reporting of outcomes.

The crowdsale contract was deployed at block 88,090 on August 15, 2015 — just 15 days after Ethereum's mainnet launch on July 30, 2015. This makes it one of the earliest smart contracts on Ethereum with significant real-world economic activity. Contributors received REP tokens, which were initially tracked in a Serpent-based token contract (0x48c80F1f4D53D5951e5D5438B54Cba84f29F32a5) before being migrated to Solidity in 2017.

Coinbase selected Augur as one of its five most exciting Bitcoin/blockchain projects in their 2015 trends report. The project went on to deploy its v1 mainnet platform in July 2018 and v2 in July 2020, making it one of the longest-running Ethereum projects from the genesis era.