EPOCH is a tribute to the frontier era.

# EPOCH — Fact Base & Content Kit

**Purpose:** This is the single source of truth for the EPOCH project. Point your AI agent (or yourself) at this file before creating any content — posts, threads, memes, explainers — so everything stays consistent and accurate.

**How to use it:** Read the STATUS TAGS below first. Only state `[VERIFIED]` facts as plain fact. Hedge or omit anything tagged `[APPROX]`, `[DRAFT]`, or `[UNVERIFIED]`. Treat `[OPINION]` as the project's framing, not objective truth. Follow the DO / DON'T rules in every piece of content.

> ⚠️ **This file is a force multiplier.** Anything written here will be repeated at scale by many people and agents, carrying the authority of "official facts." A wrong number here becomes a thousand wrong posts. Hold it to a higher bar than casual conversation: when in doubt, tag it lower-confidence or leave it out.

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## STATUS TAGS

- `[VERIFIED]` — confirmed true; safe to state plainly.
- `[VERIFIED — PROJECT CLAIM]` — a fact asserted by the project itself (not independently sourced here). State plainly and confidently, but know it's a project/provenance claim, not third-party-verified — so it's attributable to EPOCH if challenged.
- `[APPROX]` — roughly right; always hedge ("around", "roughly", "~").
- `[DRAFT]` — a current design decision that may still change. State as "planned" / "intended", never as final.
- `[UNVERIFIED]` — believed true but NOT yet confirmed. Do not state as fact; flag for verification.
- `[OPINION]` — the project's perspective/framing, not objective fact. Present as a view, not a claim.

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## 1. WHAT EPOCH IS

> **Critical distinction — never mix these up:**
> **BTCE, WMC, WAAC** = the OLD 2015 tokens the campaign *honors* (bitcoin on Ethereum, MistCoin, ayeAyeCoin). EPOCH does **not** redeem into them — they are celebrated as history.
> **EPOCH** = the NEW campaign token. It is its own thing: a lore/collectible token, not a claim on any other asset.

- `[DRAFT]` EPOCH is an ERC-20 token with a **fixed supply of 72,000,000**.
- `[VERIFIED]` Uses **18 decimals**.
- `[VERIFIED — PROJECT CLAIM]` Ticker **EPC**. Verified contract `0x55555078D00eBC7CA02ab7fE85800C1C74f55555`.
- `[VERIFIED]` Supply is **capped and minted once** — no ongoing inflation; every token that will exist exists from launch.
- `[DRAFT]` **There is NO swap, no redemption, and no on-chain price/rate.** EPOCH is a pure campaign token that *celebrates* three early 2015 tokens (BTCE, WMC, WAAC) as history. It is not backed by them and cannot be exchanged for them through any contract. **Never imply EPOCH is redeemable for BTCE/WMC/WAAC or any asset.**
- `[DRAFT]` **Architecture:** two contracts — a minimal **EPOCH token** (fixed supply, 18 decimals, burnable, no admin) and a separate **EPOCHGames** contract holding the on-chain mechanics (**lock-and-double** and **Double or Nothing**). Keeping the token simple reduces risk. Players give a **one-time approval** to the games contract to lock or play.
- `[DRAFT]` Game winnings are paid from the creator's own EPOCH ("the chest"), approved to the games contract. Fall (spending EPOCH) and Winter (giveaways/airdrops) are run outside these contracts.
- `[OPINION]` EPOCH exists to shine a light on the rarity and history of 2015-era Ethereum tokens — above all BTCE, MistCoin, and ayeAyeCoin.

**Styling rule:** Write **"bitcoin on Ethereum"** (lowercase "b", capital "E"), ticker **BTCE**; **MistCoin** (ticker/wrapper **WMC**); **ayeAyeCoin** (wrapper **WAAC**). The project token is **EPOCH**.

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## 2. THE THREE HONORED TOKENS (BTCE · WMC · WAAC)

*EPOCH celebrates these three early 2015 tokens. Each carries its own "first/earliest" claim — these are widely repeated but contested, so present them as the project's/community's framing, never as adjudicated fact, and don't rank them against each other.*

### bitcoin on Ethereum (BTCE)
- `[VERIFIED]` A 2015-era token, **one of the earliest on Ethereum**, deployed **November 3, 2015** — **16 days before ERC-20 (EIP-20) was proposed** (Nov 19, 2015). See §3A.
- `[VERIFIED — PROJECT CLAIM]` The **first bitcoin-on-Ethereum token with a 21,000,000 supply** (mirroring Bitcoin's cap). Project claim; state plainly, attributable to the project.
- `[VERIFIED]` Decimals 8. Original 2015 contract `0x1130547436810db920fa73681c946fea15e9b758`; ERC-20 wrapper (adds the `approve` the original lacks) `0xc0bc84e95864bdfdcd1ccfb8a3aa522e79ca1410`.
- `[OPINION]` Whether BTCE "is ERC-20" is a genuine, unresolvable debate — never take a hard side. Safe framing: *a very early, pre-/proto-standard token that doesn't implement the full ERC-20 interface (hence the wrapper).*

### MistCoin (WMC)
- `[VERIFIED]` Deployed **November 3, 2015** by **Fabian Vogelsteller and Alex Van de Sande** (the Mist wallet team); Vogelsteller went on to co-author ERC-20. One of the earliest tokens on Ethereum.
- `[APPROX]` Widely described as **"the prototype for ERC20"** — the token that led to the standard, built by one of its own co-authors. Use that phrasing. (Avoid the harder "the first ERC-20 token" superlative, which is more contested; "prototype for ERC20" is how Etherscan and the project describe it and is more defensible.)
- `[APPROX]` Total supply ~**1,000,000** MistCoin (~400,000 circulating). Original MC contract `0xf4eCEd2f682CE333f96f2D8966C613DeD8fC95DD`; Wrapped MistCoin (WMC) `0x7Fd4d7737597E7b4ee22AcbF8D94362343ae0a79`. *(Confirm before publishing — see §10.)*
- `[OPINION]` Its provenance — built by ERC-20's own co-author, the same day as BTCE — is the strongest "origin of the standard" lore.

### ayeAyeCoin (WAAC)
- `[VERIFIED]` Deployed **August 2015**, roughly three weeks after Ethereum's mainnet launched; created by the early pseudonymous figure **linagee** (the same name behind the Linagee Name Registrar, §3A/§3B). Distributed via a **faucet** (one free coin per gas-payer).
- `[APPROX]` Widely **called the first memecoin / first animal token on Ethereum** — a contested superlative; present as a claim.
- `[VERIFIED]` Sat **dormant ~9 years** until rediscovered in **2024**; now held/traded as **Wrapped ayeAyeCoin (WAAC)**, unwrappable 1:1 to the 2015 original. WAAC contract `0x30ae41d5f9988d359c733232c6c693c0e645c77e`.
- `[VERIFIED]` Original ayeAyeCoin contract from 2015 `0x3edDc7ebC7db94f54b72D8Ed1F42cE6A527305bB`.
- `[APPROX]` Supply **6,000,000**. *(Confirm before publishing — see §10.)*
- `[OPINION]` A textbook dormant-relic-reawakens story, and a fun, lovable hook (named after the aye-aye, a Madagascar lemur).

> **Shared framing for all three:** very early 2015 tokens, deployed before or around the birth of the ERC-20 standard, each needing a modern wrapper because they predate today's conventions. Honor them as history; never present EPOCH as redeemable for any of them.

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## 3. WHY 2015 TOKENS ARE RARE

- `[VERIFIED]` Ethereum's mainnet (Frontier) launched **July 30, 2015** — so 2015 was only ~5 months on-chain.
- `[APPROX]` Contract deployments by year (2015 is partial, from Jul 30). Source figures provided by project; treat as project-supplied data:

| Year | Contracts deployed |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,292 *(partial)* |
| 2016 | 232,811 |
| 2017 | 3,739,178 |
| 2018 | 8,076,260 |
| 2019 | 8,425,038 |
| 2020 | 16,432,691 |
| 2021 | 11,043,377 |
| 2022 | 7,600,129 |
| 2023 | 9,168,038 |
| 2024 | 3,995,274 |
| 2025 | 22,271,572 |

- `[APPROX]` 2015's deployments are **~0.03%** of 2025's — i.e. roughly 1/3,500th.
- `[APPROX]` Breakdown of the 6,292 contracts deployed in 2015:
  - **619** were token contracts (~9.84%)
  - **166** dead / empty (~2.64%)
  - **5,507** something else (~87.52%) — Solidity examples, vaults, gambling contracts, name services, other non-token logic
- `[APPROX]` Of the **619** tokens: **123** carried a name, **496** were unnamed.
- `[APPROX]` Of the **123** named tokens: only **23** went on to see real activity; **100** were dead-on-arrival (no real activity).
- `[OPINION]` The point: named, active tokens from 2015 are a vanishingly small set — which is what makes a genuine one rare.

> **Numbers consistency note for agents:** Use **6,292** as the 2015 total everywhere (not 6,348). All sub-figures sum to it: 619 + 166 + 5,507 = 6,292; 123 + 496 = 619; 100 + 23 = 123.

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## 3A. HISTORICAL CONTEXT & FIRSTS (the "good" — historical significance)

*All dates below are well-documented across multiple sources (see §11 Sources). Treat the dates as `[VERIFIED]`; treat any "first/oldest" superlative as `[APPROX]` — crypto history is full of rediscoveries, so prefer "one of the earliest" over "the first" unless citing a specific claim.*

- `[VERIFIED]` Ethereum's mainnet (**Frontier**) launched **July 30, 2015**. The genesis block credited ~8,893 wallets with ETH from the 2014 presale; ~72M ETH existed at launch.
- `[VERIFIED]` In Frontier's first days the block gas limit was hardcoded at 5,000 — essentially nothing could happen on-chain for a buffer period. The network was bare-bones and command-line; building on it in 2015 meant operating at the frontier, literally.
- `[VERIFIED]` The **ERC-20 standard (EIP-20)** was proposed by **Fabian Vogelsteller** (with Vitalik Buterin) on **November 19, 2015** — and was not formally finalized as a standard until **September 2017**.
- `[VERIFIED]` **bitcoin on Ethereum (BTCE) deployed November 3, 2015 — 16 days BEFORE ERC-20 (EIP-20) was even proposed**, and nearly two years before it was finalized. This is the single sharpest fact for the "older than the standard" framing. It is one of the earliest tokens on Ethereum.
- `[VERIFIED — PROJECT CLAIM]` BTCE is the **first bitcoin-on-Ethereum token with a 21,000,000 supply** — echoing Bitcoin's own 21M cap on Ethereum, in 2015. (Project claim; state plainly, attributable to the project.)
- `[VERIFIED]` The **Mist wallet** (often cited in the "is BTCE ERC-20?" debate) shipped with the **Homestead** upgrade in **March 2016** — *after* BTCE's deployment. Useful context: BTCE predates both ERC-20 and Mist.
- `[VERIFIED]` Other now-celebrated 2015 contracts: **Linagee Name Registrar** (deployed **Aug 8, 2015**, ~a week after mainnet; widely called the oldest known Ethereum smart contract) and **Etheria** (deployed **Oct 2015**, presented at DEVCON1; often called the first NFT-style project on Ethereum).
- `[OPINION]` 2015 is Ethereum's "frontier era." Anything deployed then was deployed into near-emptiness by a tiny group of pioneers — which is precisely what gives it provenance.

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## 3B. SCARCITY, SURVIVAL & COLLECTOR VALUE (the "good" — provable scarcity + cultural value)

*Precedent for why genuinely old, scarce on-chain artifacts come to be prized. These are about OTHER projects — use them as analogy/precedent, never imply they are EPOCH or BTCE, and never imply EPOCH will appreciate like them.*

- `[VERIFIED]` **Etheria** tiles originally sold for **1 ETH each (worth under $1 at the time)**; they sat largely dormant for years before being "rediscovered" in 2021 and trading for vastly more — a textbook dormant-relic-reawakens story.
- `[VERIFIED]` A complete set of **Curio Cards** (2017) sold at **Christie's for 393 ETH (~$1.27M)** in October 2021 — old on-chain artifacts reaching traditional auction houses.
- `[VERIFIED]` **Linagee** had only ~**60 names** minted in 2015; its rediscovery (by "NFT archaeologist" Mason Keresty, who decompiled every contract in the first 300,000 blocks) caused real excitement precisely because of its age and tiny supply.
- `[VERIFIED]` Dormant **Genesis-era ETH wallets** reawakening after ~10 years is notable news when it happens (e.g. a 2025 wallet that moved ETH worth ~$71 at acquisition, ~$590K later) — early-era provenance is culturally tracked.
- `[OPINION]` The collector ethos, widely repeated in the space: **"older means better."** Provenance you can trace back through the blockchain's earliest blocks carries historical and cultural value beyond utility.
- `[OPINION]` Genuine 2015 artifacts can't be re-created — the supply is fixed by history. You can mint a new token any day; you can never mint a new *2015* token.

> **Agent caution for §3B:** These precedents show that *some* old artifacts became valued. They are NOT evidence that EPOCH or BTCE will. Use them to explain *why people care about on-chain antiquity*, never as a forecast. Never write "the next CryptoPunks" or similar.

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## 3C. COMMUNITY LORE & FRAMING (the "good" — narrative angles)

*Approved storytelling angles. All `[OPINION]` — these are how to *frame*, not facts to assert.*

- `[OPINION]` **"Blockchain archaeology."** There's a real subculture of digging through Ethereum's earliest blocks to surface forgotten contracts (the "NFT archaeologist" framing). EPOCH fits this spirit: it points a light at a genuine relic.
- `[OPINION]` **"Frozen in time."** These contracts are immutable and have sat untouched for a decade — a time capsule from when almost no one was building.
- `[OPINION]` **"Older than the standard."** All three honored tokens predate or coincide with ERC-20's birth (BTCE and MistCoin on Nov 3, 2015; ayeAyeCoin in Aug 2015) — the cleanest hook, and factually grounded (see §3A, §2).
- `[OPINION]` **"The chain remembers."** Provenance is permanent and public; 2015 origin can be proven on-chain by anyone, forever.
- `[OPINION]` **Honesty as a feature.** The project's credibility comes from being fact-based about a real piece of history — lean into verifiable provenance rather than hype.

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## 4. NO SWAP — HOW EPOCH RELATES TO THE THREE TOKENS

- `[DRAFT]` **EPOCH has no swap, no redemption, and no on-chain rate.** Earlier drafts had a swap-for-BTCE mechanic; **that has been removed entirely.** Do not reference a swap, a rate ladder, a "1000:1", or "redeemable for BTCE" anywhere — those are obsolete.
- `[OPINION]` The relationship to BTCE, MistCoin, and ayeAyeCoin is **celebratory/thematic only**: EPOCH is a campaign that honors and draws attention to these three 2015 relics. Holding EPOCH is not a claim on them.
- `[OPINION]` The token's point is lore, history, and the campaign's games and seasons — not an exchange rate.

> **Agent caution:** If you find older copy mentioning a swap, rate, "unlock levels", or "redeem for BTCE", it is stale — do not repeat it. EPOCH does not convert into any other token.

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## 4A. REASONS TO HOLD EPOCH

*Use these as the honest "why hold" angles. Note the tags — one is a hard fact, the others are positioning/opinion and must be framed as such.*

- `[OPINION]` **Belonging to the lore.** Holding is a way to take part in surfacing and honoring genuine pieces of Ethereum history (BTCE, MistCoin, ayeAyeCoin) — a cultural/community reason, independent of any financial angle. (Note: the old "guaranteed swap floor" reason is **gone** — there is no swap. Do not use it.)
- `[OPINION]` **The games and seasons.** Holding lets you take part in the campaign's events — the Spring lock-and-double, the Summer Double or Nothing, the Fall "spend your EPOCH", and Winter giveaways.
- `[OPINION]` **A curated airdrop audience.** EPOCH holders are a clean, self-selected group of people who care about 2015-era Ethereum history and genuine on-chain provenance. That makes the holder list an attractive, high-quality target for *other* projects that want to airdrop to a relevant, engaged audience — and the project may actively partner on such drops (see the planned Winter partner drop in the playbook). **Frame as positioning, never a promise:** "holding makes you a good target for airdrops" / "well-positioned to be included in drops" — NEVER "you will receive airdrops" or any implication of guaranteed free tokens or returns.
- `[OPINION]` **Belonging to the lore.** Holding is a way to take part in surfacing and honoring a genuine piece of Ethereum history — a cultural/community reason, independent of any financial angle.

> **Agent caution for §4A:** The airdrop angle is *positioning*, not a yield or earnings pitch. Never promise third-party airdrops (they're outside the project's control), never quantify them, and never frame holding as a way to earn. The honest claim is only that the audience is a *quality target* a project might choose to drop to.

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## 5. THE CAMPAIGN (Thawing + four seasons)

- `[DRAFT]` Five-week arc: **Thawing** (week 0, pre-launch) → **Spring** → **Summer** → **Autumn** → **Winter**, one week each.
- `[DRAFT]` **Thawing:** manual airdrops, spreading the word, a "spread-the-word" contest, recruiting community managers, countdown to launch; mid-week the lock-and-double is announced; a small sale funds liquidity. No market yet.
- `[DRAFT]` **Spring:** liquidity pool goes live (first day), the lock window closes, and locked tokens begin to double. (No swap — that mechanic is gone.)
- `[DRAFT]` **Summer:** lock-and-double payouts begin, and the headline event is **Double or Nothing** — see §5B.
- `[DRAFT]` **Fall (Autumn): spending season.** The focus shifts to *spending* EPOCH on something — **exactly what is TBD** (possibly the creator's own NFTs, possibly something else). Do not state specifics until decided; frame as "a season to put EPOCH to use."
- `[DRAFT]` **Winter: giveaway season.** Airdrops and more, including a planned **partner airdrop** to the EPOCH holder base (a collaborating project dropping their token) — showcasing the "curated audience" angle in §4A. Frame giveaways/airdrops as planned events / positioning, never guaranteed rewards.
- `[DRAFT]` **Lock-and-double:** holders can lock tokens before a cutoff and claim back double after the spring unlock; bonus funded from the creator's chest; holders claim themselves.
- `[OPINION]` The seasons mirror something coming out of the ice, growing, and returning to the cold.

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## 5A. BOUNTIES

- `[DRAFT]` The project runs **open bounties** throughout the campaign: public, claimable challenges each with an EPOCH reward attached. Anyone can attempt them; the project pays out when one is fulfilled. Rewards come from the giveaway budget.
- `[DRAFT]` They lean **playful and ambitious** — big-reach stunts and creative/useful tasks. Examples (reward amounts are placeholders, not final): name an adopted tagline; get a famous person into the Discord; get a real 100k+follower person to say something nice about the historic assets; get #EPOCH to trend; get featured by a crypto-history account; translate the origin story; high-reach memes; a genuine on-camera cameo.
- `[OPINION]`/guardrail — **how agents should write about bounties:**
  - Frame them as fun community challenges, not as paid endorsements or financial schemes.
  - **Real people, real actions, consent only** — never suggest impersonation, fake endorsements, bots, or paying someone to pretend. A "nice word" or cameo must be genuine.
  - Never tie a bounty to price/return claims, and never imply holding or bounty-hunting is a way to earn returns.
  - Reward amounts are TBD/placeholder — don't quote specific numbers as final.
  - Keep it classy: invitations, not harassment; creativity, not spam.

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## 5B. DOUBLE OR NOTHING (Summer event)

- `[DRAFT]` A one-shot, group-wide coin-flip in Summer. Participants stake EPOCH into a shared pot (capped at **100 addresses**); after a set start block, **any participant** (or admin as a backstop) calls `spin()` once. **Even** block randomness (`prevrandao`) = the group **wins** — `spin()` pays **everyone 2× automatically** in one transaction (the caller gets **+10%** of their own stake, win-only). **Odd** = the group **loses** and the pot is **burned**. No separate claim step.
- `[OPINION]` The hook is honesty: the randomness is **deliberately weak**, and the real game is the community coordinating to call the spin on a good block. Frame it as a *game/puzzle*, never as a fair 50/50 or a way to make money.
- `[DRAFT]` **Participants-only spin** is the core safety feature: to call you must have stake in the pot (which also burns on a loss), so outsiders can't grief and forcing a loss is self-harm. Winning payouts (doubling + caller's 10%) come from an admin-funded reserve.
- `[OPINION]`/guardrail — **how agents must write about it:**
  - Always say the randomness is weak and biasable (a validator/builder can nudge it); never imply it's provably fair or a guaranteed win.
  - Be clear losers really **lose** (burn). Never suggest it's risk-free or a way to earn.
  - Disclose the honest residual: a participant holding a big bag *outside* the pot could try to force a burn to profit from reduced supply — they torch their own stake too, so it's rarely worth it, but it's possible.
  - Never promise the group will win, never promise a doubling, never quote it as yield.

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## 6. LIQUIDITY (LP)

- `[DRAFT]` An EPOCH liquidity pool is planned; seeded by a small token sale.
- `[UNVERIFIED]` Exact pool venue, size, and pair details — **not finalized. Do not state specifics.**
- `[OPINION]` As a small/lore-driven market, expect a thin pool and volatile price; this should be communicated honestly, never hidden.

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## 7. DO / DON'T (read before writing anything)

**ALWAYS:**
- Write "bitcoin on Ethereum" (lowercase b, capital E), ticker **BTCE**; **MistCoin** / **WMC**; **ayeAyeCoin** / **WAAC**; token **EPOCH**.
- Frame value as **history and opinion** ("a genuine 2015 artifact", "we think it's historically significant"), not as price or returns.
- Hedge anything tagged `[APPROX]`, `[DRAFT]`, `[UNVERIFIED]`. State only `[VERIFIED]` items flatly.
- Present each token's "first/earliest" claim as a *claim* (contested superlative), not adjudicated fact; don't rank the three against each other.
- Encourage genuine, honest word-of-mouth.

**NEVER:**
- Say EPOCH swaps into, redeems for, or is backed by BTCE/WMC/WAAC or anything else. **There is no swap, no rate, no redemption** — that mechanic was removed. Don't reference "1000:1", "rate", or "unlock levels".
- Predict or promise a price or any return ("will moon", "guaranteed", "easy 10x" — all off-limits).
- Call EPOCH, BTCE, WMC, or WAAC an investment, or give financial advice.
- Take a hard side on whether BTCE "is ERC-20" — it's a genuine debate (see §2). For MistCoin, use "the prototype for ERC20" (not "the first ERC-20"); for ayeAyeCoin, present "first memecoin" as a claim.
- Invent numbers, dates, addresses, or facts not in this file. If it's not here, don't claim it.
- Use another project's trademarks, or impersonate real people.

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## 8. READY-TO-USE SNIPPETS

*(Copy/adapt freely. These encode the approved framing.)*

**One-line description:**
> EPOCH — an ERC-20 campaign honoring three of the earliest 2015 Ethereum tokens: bitcoin on Ethereum (BTCE), MistCoin (WMC), and ayeAyeCoin (WAAC).

**Two-sentence pitch:**
> In 2015 almost nothing was built on Ethereum — the chain was barely five months old. EPOCH is a token that points at that rarity and celebrates three genuine relics from that window — bitcoin on Ethereum, MistCoin, and ayeAyeCoin — through a five-week campaign of games and giveaways.

**The rarity hook:**
> Of ~6,292 contracts deployed on Ethereum in 2015, only 619 were tokens — 123 had names, and just 23 ever saw real activity. That's how rare a genuine 2015 token is.

**The "why it lacks approve" hook (safe version):**
> bitcoin on Ethereum is so early it doesn't implement the full ERC-20 interface — it lacks a standard `approve` method, so a wrapper exists just to make it movable by modern tools. *(Note: whether it counts as "ERC-20" at all is a genuine debate — don't assert either side. Keep it to "early / doesn't implement the full interface.")*

**The three-relics hook:**
> Three of Ethereum's oldest tokens, all from 2015: bitcoin on Ethereum and MistCoin (both deployed Nov 3, 2015, before ERC-20 existed) and ayeAyeCoin (August 2015, the chain's first animal-token meme). EPOCH exists to honor them.

**The "older than the standard" hook (strongest, fully grounded):**
> bitcoin on Ethereum was deployed November 3, 2015 — sixteen days *before* the ERC-20 token standard was even proposed, and nearly two years before it was finalized. It's older than the rulebook every other token follows.

**The provenance hook:**
> You can mint a new token any day. You can never mint a new *2015* token. The supply of genuine frontier-era artifacts was fixed by history — and bitcoin on Ethereum is one of them.

**The "21 million, in 2015" hook:**
> bitcoin on Ethereum was the first to bring Bitcoin's 21-million cap onto Ethereum — and it did it in 2015, one of the earliest tokens the network ever saw.

**The honest-volatility line:**
> This is a small, lore-driven market — expect a thin pool and a volatile price. That's normal here; go in eyes open.

**The curated-audience hook (positioning, not a promise):**
> EPOCH holders are a self-selected crowd who actually care about 2015-era Ethereum history — exactly the kind of clean, relevant audience a new project would want to airdrop to. *(Frame as positioning. Never promise airdrops or imply guaranteed free tokens.)*

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## 9. TAGLINES

*(All `[OPINION]`/branding — use as flavor, not fact.)*

- "The chain remembers what froze in 2015."
- "A relic of the frontier."
- "Almost nothing was built in 2015. That's the point."
- "Thaw a piece of history."
- "6,292 contracts. 23 that stayed alive. One worth honoring."
- "Older than `approve`."

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## 9A. SOCIAL TAGS & POST LINES

*Use these consistently on social posts. Cashtag/hashtag exactly as written.*

**Tags:**
- `$BTCE` — cashtag for the old relic token (bitcoin on Ethereum).
- `#EPOCH` — hashtag for the project.
- `$EPC` — cashtag for the project token (EPOCH).

**Approved post lines:**
- "bitcoin on Ethereum. The first 21 million bitcoin on Ethereum."
- "EPOCH, some of the scarcest OG assets on Ethereum."

> **Tag usage notes for agents:**
> - `$BTCE` refers to the OLD relic; `#EPOCH` refers to the NEW project token. Don't swap them.
> - The "first 21 million bitcoin on Ethereum" line rests on the `[VERIFIED — PROJECT CLAIM]` in §2 — state it confidently, but it's a project claim.
> - "scarcest OG assets" is `[OPINION]`/framing — fine as flavor; don't dress it up as a measured statistic.

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## 10. OPEN ITEMS / TO VERIFY

*(Maintainers: resolve these and re-tag from `[UNVERIFIED]`/`[DRAFT]` to `[VERIFIED]` as confirmed.)*

1. `[APPROX]` **Confirm WMC (MistCoin) and WAAC (ayeAyeCoin) details** — addresses, deployment specifics, supplies — against authoritative sources/your own records before publishing, since they're now headline tokens. (Starting figures and addresses are in §2, researched from Etherscan/CMC/project sites; verify.)
2. ✅ *Resolved:* swap/rate/BTCE-redemption mechanic **removed** — EPOCH is now a pure campaign token (no swap).
3. ✅ *Resolved:* EPOCH decimals set to **18**.
4. `[APPROX]` Source/methodology for the 2015–2025 deployment figures and the 6,292 breakdown — pin down so they can be cited.
5. `[DRAFT]` Liquidity pool specifics (venue, size, pair).
6. `[DRAFT]` **Fall (Autumn) "spend" mechanic** — decide what EPOCH is spent on (creator's NFTs? something else?) and how. Currently undecided; don't state specifics.
7. `[DRAFT]` Winter giveaway/airdrop details (including the partner drop).

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*Last updated: keep this date current whenever facts change. When you change a number or a status tag here, you are changing it for everyone downstream — edit deliberately.*

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## 11. SOURCES (for the researched facts in §3A–§3C)

*Cite or sanity-check against these. Primary/official sources are strongest; treat secondary explainers as corroboration, not gospel.*

- **EIP-20 proposal (Nov 19, 2015), Vogelsteller & Buterin** — eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-20 *(primary; the ERC-20 date and authorship)*
- **ERC-20 standard overview** — ethereum.org/developers/docs/standards/tokens/erc-20/ *(official; the six functions incl. `approve`, formalized 2017)*
- **Ethereum history / Frontier launch (Jul 30, 2015), genesis ~8,893 wallets, 5 ETH block reward, Mist with Homestead Mar 2016** — Consensys "A Short History of Ethereum"; cryptopotato history; mexc "When Was Ethereum Created"
- **Linagee Name Registrar (Aug 8, 2015), ~60 names, rediscovery by Mason Keresty** — nftnow.com; Unchained "Historical NFTs"; ameronomics
- **Etheria (Oct 2015, DEVCON1, sold 1 ETH/tile)** — Decrypt "An NFT Game Almost Old as Ethereum"
- **Curio Cards at Christie's (393 ETH / ~$1.27M, Oct 2021)** — Wikipedia "Curio Cards"
- **Dormant Genesis-era ETH wallet reawakening (2025)** — mexc/Whale Alert report
- **"Older means better" collector ethos** — nftnow.com / Unchained (framing widely repeated across crypto media & social)
- **MistCoin (Nov 3, 2015; Vogelsteller & Van de Sande; ~1M supply; "prototype for ERC20"; MC + WMC addresses)** — Etherscan token pages; CoinMarketCap "Wrapped MistCoin"; mistcoineth.com; Medium "MistCoin: The token that led to ERC-20"
- **ayeAyeCoin (Aug 2015; by linagee; faucet; dormant until 2024; "first memecoin/animal token" claim; 6M supply; WAAC address)** — CoinMarketCap "AyeAyeCoin"; ayeayecoin.xyz; Etherscan "WrappedAyeAyeCoin"; DexScreener *(treat "first memecoin" as a claim)*

> Note: some "first/oldest" claims are contested or have been revised by later rediscoveries. Prefer "one of the earliest/oldest" unless you're citing a specific source's specific claim. Social-media (Twitter/Reddit) sentiment is `[OPINION]` — attribute it, don't elevate it to fact.