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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

token

Retch Mining Futures

0x9c2351...83e874March 21, 2016

Unicorn Meat

token

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

0xed6ac8...ddef9aMarch 25, 2016

Unicorn Meat Grinder Association

dao

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

0xc7e9dd...eeaa32March 25, 2016

Meme

token

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

0x84965c...5e38cfApril 13, 2016

EthToken

token

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

0x89d64b...bad62eApril 25, 2016

coin

token

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

0xb4abc1...4b8aa4April 26, 2016

TheDAO

token

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

0xbb9bc2...189413April 30, 2016

HashToken

token

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

0xe5544a...bb31b0June 17, 2016
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