Homestead Era

The first planned hard fork. Removed the canary contract, adjusted gas costs.

2016-03-14 to 2016-07-20

Blocks 1,150,000 to 1,919,999

8 documented contracts

Retch Mining Futures

A historic 2016 memecoin created by Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation to pioneer token swaps and upgrades.

An early DAO made to demonstrate token swaps, mutations, and quadratic voting.

Early puzzle token experiment with a fun name and unique supply mechanics.

The earliest fully compliant ERC-20 token contract on Ethereum mainnet, wrapping Ether 1:1 into a transferable token.

A mineable Ethereum coin contract derived from Gavin Wood’s early coin.sol prototype.

The first large scale decentralized autonomous organization deployed on Ethereum, commonly known as The DAO.

The first Ethereum token to implement an on-chain, increasing-difficulty hash-based minting mechanism.