#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.
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, two from 2016.
Each card carries the story on the front and the on-chain addresses on the back. Contested claims are printed as claims, not as facts.
Deployed 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. Held today via an ERC-20 wrapper.
Deployed the same day as BTCE 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).
Earlier still than the other two, from the pseudonymous early builder linagee. Faucet-distributed and then dormant until its rediscovery in 2024. Named after the aye-aye, a Madagascar lemur. Held today as Wrapped ayeAyeCoin (WAAC).
Arrived a little later, 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.
0xE5544a…bB31b0↗A forgotten 2016 puzzle-token, rediscovered and hard-capped. 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 name came from a close friend obsessed with memes, who had even built a meme-sharing social platform. Held today through a wrapper, and standing alongside the EPOCH campaign.
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.
Hit the copy button on any address above and paste it into Etherscan. Deployment block, first transfers, holder count: it is all public, and none of it needs our permission.
The roster is open-ended. If a token from that window earns its place, it joins this page. Bring the evidence to the Discord.
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