#ETH2015, the earliest assets on Ethereum: the tokens of the founding window, and the projects standing alongside the campaign today. An open-ended list: as more earn their place, they join this page.
These are the tokens the campaign gathers around. At its heart sit three survivors of 2015: each deployed into a near-empty chain, each carrying its own contested claim to a "first", each so early it survives now only through a modern wrapper. Alongside them stand two from 2016: Hashtoken, mechanically unlike anything else of its era, and Meme, a puzzle-token that spent years forgotten.
bitcoin on Ethereum (BTCE) was deployed on Nov 3, 2015, sixteen days before the ERC-20 standard was even proposed. It is so early that it predates the approve method the standard would later require, which is why moving it today needs a wrapper. Its claim: the first bitcoin-on-Ethereum token, with a 21,000,000 supply. Held today via an ERC-20 wrapper.
MistCoin was deployed the same day, Nov 3, 2015, by the Mist wallet team, which included a co-author of ERC-20. It is widely described as a prototype for the standard, the token that helped shape what ERC-20 became. Held today as Wrapped MistCoin (WMC).
ayeAyeCoin came earlier still, in August 2015, from the pseudonymous early builder linagee. Faucet-distributed and then dormant for nearly nine years until its rediscovery in 2024, it is often called Ethereum's first memecoin or animal token, named after the aye-aye, a Madagascar lemur. Held today as Wrapped ayeAyeCoin (WAAC).
Hashtoken (HTK) arrived a little later, on Jun 17, 2016, with a genuinely unusual mechanism: it was mined. You earned HTK by finding a valid Keccak-256 hash and calling the contract, and every successful mint made the next one about one percent harder, so its scarcity was written into the contract itself. Standing alongside the EPOCH campaign.
Meme (MEME) is a forgotten 2016 puzzle-token, rediscovered and hard-capped at 690,420 MEME. On April 13, 2016, 13-year-old Matt Beton deployed a small, 0-decimal token contract named Meme. Because he couldn't buy crypto at his age, he mined ETH on a GTX 970 to experiment on mainnet. The token's name was inspired by a close friend who was obsessed with memes and had even built a meme-sharing social platform. Held today through a wrapper, and standing alongside the EPOCH campaign.
0xE5544a…bB31b0↗EPOCH is its own token. It is never redeemable for, backed by, or swappable into any token on this page.
Every claim on this page is a contract address away from being checked yourself, and what you find is worth posting.
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