An ethereum.org tutorial token deployed with no name and no symbol, that tracks spending against approvals rather than decrementing them.
Historical Significance
Instead of decrementing an allowance as it is drawn, this revision of the tutorial keeps a separate ledger of how much of each approval has been spent and compares against it. The result is the same limit enforced from the opposite direction, and it avoids the write-after-read that made the ERC-20 approve race famous. It is a road the standard did not take, preserved in the contracts that copied the tutorial while it was still there.
This deployment left the name and the symbol empty. Both are set once in the constructor and no function changes them, so the token has no display identity of any kind and never will: a wallet holding it can only ever show its address.
Context
By late 2016 ERC-20 had settled the interface a token was expected to answer, and the ethereum.org tutorial was still where most people copied one from. OpenZeppelin's contracts were not yet the default, so the code behind a token of this period is usually the tutorial's, with the constructor arguments changed and nothing else.
Token Information
Key Facts
Description
A fixed-supply token supporting transfers and allowance spending, plus approvals that call back into the spending contract. Deployed December 2016 by 0x7308c0ea411371ffd2f88c0fab7db03ae020fb97.
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Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Spurious Dragon Era
Continued DoS protection. State trie clearing.
Bytecode Overview
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// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
contract tokenRecipient { function receiveApproval(address _from, uint256 _value, address _token, bytes _extraData); }
contract MyToken {
/* Public variables of the token */
string public name;
string public symbol;
uint8 public decimals;
/* This creates an array with all balances */
mapping (address => uint256) public balanceOf;
mapping (address => mapping (address => uint)) public allowance;
mapping (address => mapping (address => uint)) public spentAllowance;
/* This generates a public event on the blockchain that will notify clients */
event Transfer(address indexed from, address indexed to, uint256 value);
/* Initializes contract with initial supply tokens to the creator of the contract */
function MyToken(uint256 initialSupply, string tokenName, uint8 decimalUnits, string tokenSymbol) {
balanceOf[msg.sender] = initialSupply; // Give the creator all initial tokens
name = tokenName; // Set the name for display purposes
symbol = tokenSymbol; // Set the symbol for display purposes
decimals = decimalUnits; // Amount of decimals for display purposes
}
/* Send coins */
function transfer(address _to, uint256 _value) {
if (balanceOf[msg.sender] < _value) throw; // Check if the sender has enough
if (balanceOf[_to] + _value < balanceOf[_to]) throw; // Check for overflows
balanceOf[msg.sender] -= _value; // Subtract from the sender
balanceOf[_to] += _value; // Add the same to the recipient
Transfer(msg.sender, _to, _value); // Notify anyone listening that this transfer took place
}
/* Allow another contract to spend some tokens in your behalf */
function approveAndCall(address _spender, uint256 _value, bytes _extraData) returns (bool success) {
allowance[msg.sender][_spender] = _value;
tokenRecipient spender = tokenRecipient(_spender);
spender.receiveApproval(msg.sender, _value, this, _extraData);
}
/* A contract attempts to get the coins */
function transferFrom(address _from, address _to, uint256 _value) returns (bool success) {
if (balanceOf[_from] < _value) throw; // Check if the sender has enough
if (balanceOf[_to] + _value < balanceOf[_to]) throw; // Check for overflows
if (spentAllowance[_from][msg.sender] + _value > allowance[_from][msg.sender]) throw; // Check allowance
balanceOf[_from] -= _value; // Subtract from the sender
balanceOf[_to] += _value; // Add the same to the recipient
spentAllowance[_from][msg.sender] += _value;
Transfer(msg.sender, _to, _value);
}
/* This unnamed function is called whenever someone tries to send ether to it */
function () {
throw; // Prevents accidental sending of ether
}
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