The early-era tokens around the EPOCH campaign: relics from Ethereum's 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 the 2015 frontier: 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. Around them sit other early-era tokens in the campaign's orbit.
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. Its claim is to be the first Ethereum token minted through proof-of-work: 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. A partner in the EPOCH campaign.
Unicorn Meat dates to March 2016, made by Ethereum Foundation designer Alex Van de Sande, of the early Ethereum Wallet and Mist and a co-creator of ENS. It started as an April Fool's joke: a companion to the Foundation's Unicorn token, with a "Grinder" contract that let holders grind Unicorns into Meat and vote, bribes and all, on how it ran, an early taste of on-chain DAOs and token mutation. Long dormant, it was revived in 2025. Held today as Wrapped Unicorn Meat (w🍖).
Meme (MEME) is a 2016 puzzle-token with a curious origin. It was deployed on Apr 13, 2016 by Matt Beton, then thirteen and too young to buy crypto, so he mined the ETH to launch it himself on a single GTX 970. Minting was a puzzle: the contract paid out one MEME to whoever could submit the exact cube root of its current challenge. Rediscovered and swept nearly nine years later, its supply is now frozen at 690,420. Held today via a wrapper that adds the ticker it never had.
0xE5544a…bB31b0↗EPOCH is its own token. It is never redeemable for, backed by, or swappable into any token on this page.
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