Homestead Era

Homestead-era transfer-only token, DinastyCoinToken (DCT), fixed supply 200000000 and 6 decimals.

Early exchange-enabled token whose deployed constructor leaves its buy and sell prices unset.

Buy/sell token deployed by an early Ethermine miner 7 days after the Homestead fork, still active 10 years later.

Early ERC-20 token built from the ethereum.org tutorial. Features approveAndCall for token-contract interaction and a spentAllowance tracking pattern.

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

Token-weighted DAO from Alex Van de Sande's 2016 'Meat Grinder' demo: Unicorn holders submit/vote on proposals (vote weight = balance × sqrt(value + gas × gaspr

Original MakerDAO governance token (v1), deployed Mar 28 2016 via dappsys factory pattern. Predecessor to current MKR (0x9f8f72aa).

Z≡N Coin (symbol Z≡N), an early 2016 ERC-20-style token with built-in buy/sell marketplace at a 10× spread. Uses the ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken extended template

The DigixDAO crowdsale contract — the first major DAO token sale on Ethereum, raising $5.5M in under 24 hours in March 2016.

Apr 2, 2016 MyToken-tutorial fork — owner mint/freeze, allowances, and a built-in buy/sell with prices left at zero at deploy.

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.

The first deployment of GavCoin, potentially by Gavin Wood himself.

The DigixDAO governance token (DGD), representing the first Ethereum crowdsale to reach its funding cap — raising $5.5 million in under 24 hours in March 2016.

The DAO was a decentralized autonomous organization and investor-directed venture capital fund built on Ethereum by Slock.it. Its April 2016 crowdsale raised ov

ETHERLITE (LETH): May 2016 ERC-20, ConsenSys HumanStandardToken plus buy/sell at unitsOneEthCanBuy price. Supply 10^30; deployed 6 weeks before TheDAO.

Six-module multisig exchange deployed May 2016 with hardcoded multiowned library and off-chain API oracle for settlement. Still holds 14 ETH.

Mist multisig wallet (4088b, 1,644 contracts). dapp-bin wallet.sol Dec 2015, solc v0.3.0 optimizer ON.

Standard Token 0.1 template with approveAndCall and correct transferFrom. One of 103 identical deployments.

A 2016 ERC-20-like token built on the ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken template, simplified to a buy-only market with owner withdraw and selfdestruct.

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

A mineable subcurrency where claimMiningReward() mints 1 token to block.coinbase once per block. Deployed Jun 16 2016.

Standard Token 0.1 template with approveAndCall. Compiled with soljson (emscripten) instead of native C++. One of 82 identical deployments.

On-chain life log and trust fund built by Jaco Greeff for his daughter Charlyn, born April 2016. Holds 16 ETH withdrawable to whitelisted addresses.