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Etheria v0.9

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0xe468d26721b7...746a7a40e1f4
FrontierContract #2,295Source VerifiedEdit this contract
Deployed October 19, 2015 (10 years ago)Block 407,810

This is the first of the 4 Etheria smart contracts, the first NFT collection on Ethereum.

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Historical Significance

Etheria is historically significant as the first NFT collection on Ethereum, predating standards such as ERC-721 by several years. It established core principles that later became central to non-fungible tokens, including unique identifiers, persistent ownership, and permissionless transfer. Etheria also represents one of the earliest examples of using Ethereum not merely as a financial system, but as a platform for native digital worlds whose state and ownership were enforced entirely by smart contracts.

Context

When Etheria was created, Ethereum was still in its infancy and lacked formal standards for tokens, assets, or games. The concept of NFTs did not yet exist as a defined category, and most experimentation focused on fungible tokens or simple contract interactions. Etheria emerged from this environment as a technically ambitious project that treated Ethereum as a substrate for digital property rather than just value transfer. Although it remained largely dormant for years due to limited tooling and high gas costs, Etheria later gained renewed attention as the NFT ecosystem matured, revealing it as a foundational artifact in the history of on-chain digital ownership.

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Key Facts
Deployer
Cyrus Adkisson(0xcf684d...ad1bac)
Deployment Block
407,810
Deployment Date
Oct 19, 2015, 02:54 PM
Code Size
10.5 KB
Gas at Deploy
2,887,294
Transactions by Year
201525
20171
2021883
2022432
2025465
20261

Description

Etheria introduced a model in which discrete pieces of digital land were represented as unique smart contract entries rather than interchangeable tokens. Ownership could be transferred between addresses, and the state of the world was derived entirely from on-chain data. At a time when most Ethereum contracts focused on fungible balances, Etheria demonstrated that uniqueness, scarcity, and spatial relationships could be encoded directly into smart contracts without reliance on off-chain metadata or standards.

Etheria is a blockchain-based virtual world deployed on Ethereum in late 2015 and early 2016, consisting of four smart contracts that together define a grid of ownable hexagonal tiles. The first of these contracts established permanent, transferable ownership of individual tiles directly on chain, making Etheria the earliest known example of non-fungible digital assets implemented on Ethereum. Each tile was uniquely identified, independently owned, and recorded entirely within the Ethereum state.

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Heuristic Analysis

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

Detected Type: nft

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes10,779
Unique Opcodes219
Jump Instructions704
Storage Operations306

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