Token Contracts

An early ERC-20-like token deployed in Ethereum's first week, built directly from the example in the official Ethereum Frontier Guide documentation.

A second deployment of the FirstCoin tutorial token by the same creator, 11 blocks after the original — both derived from the official Ethereum Frontier Guide example.

An early Ethereum name registry deployed August 8, 2015, providing name reservation, address association, and ownership transfer, predating ENS by nearly two years.

The ninth iteration of the GlobalRegistrar contract, which became the canonical Ethereum name registrar hardcoded into Geth and other clients during the Frontier era.

One of the earliest named tokens on Ethereum, and the first known to feature an animal identity and a public on-chain faucet.

An early Frontier-era token contract implementing a pre-ERC-20 interface, deployed on September 8, 2015 by an address associated with the ENS name collectibletrust.eth, with source code referencing the proposed ERC-20 standard two months before its formal submission.

Created by the Ethereum Foundation Mist team, Fabian Vogelsteller and Alex Van de Sande, to test the standard token.

bitcoin: An early experimental Ethereum token created in 2015

An early token contract deploying the MyToken template as Whitcoin (WHIT) on November 3, 2015, the same day the canonical MistCoin was created, illustrating the rapid proliferation of the Mist browser token tutorial.

A MyToken template deployment by collectibletrust.eth on November 3, 2015, linking the same deployer responsible for the pre-ERC-20 currency contract from September 1015 to the MistCoin launch day.

An early token named Bizilicas (BiZ) deployed on November 3, 2015 using the MyToken template, one of several tokens created on the same day as the canonical MistCoin following the introduction of Ethereum's Mist browser token creation interface.

An unnamed Ethereum token contract deployed by Vitalik Buterin based on the currency.sol reference implementation.

An early Ethereum token named SubEthaNomic (SEN), deployed on December 14, 2015, whose name references the Sub-Etha network from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, representing one of the first cultural-reference tokens on Ethereum.

The first of eleven Unicorns token deployments

A Democracy DAO governance contract deployed by Ethereum Foundation UX Lead Alex Van de Sande (avsa) on February 11, 2016, implementing the tutorial contract from the official Ethereum Foundation blog series on decentralized governance.

A second Democracy DAO governance contract deployed by Alex Van de Sande (avsa) on February 11, 2016, eight minutes after a nearly identical deployment, as part of the same testing session for the Unicorns NFT governance infrastructure.

Rare “Unicorn” token awarded for donating 2.014 ETH to the Ethereum Foundation Tip Jar in 2016.

Retch Mining Futures

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

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.