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The Relics

The tokens in rotation, from Ethereum’s first eleven months. August 2015 to June 2016, when deploying a token was a weekend project and a forum thread. These are the artifacts the machine hands out. It does not print anything: every discovery is a real purchase on the relic’s own market, and what lands in your wallet is the token itself.

Chance picks which relic you get, never how much it is worth. There is nothing to hold out for. Just a different piece of the dig each time.

DemoSimulated: no contract, no wallet, no real money. The fee, the distribution and the caps match the deployed machine, so the numbers move the way the real ones do.
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MistCoin

WMC
Deployed
November 2015
Created by
Fabian Vogelsteller
Wrapped
July 2022 · 1:1 on MistCoin (MC)
Status
In rotation (demo)

Fabian Vogelsteller deployed MistCoin on 3 November 2015 as a test token, while working out the token interface he was building into the Mist wallet. Sixteen days later he filed that interface as Issue #20 on the EIPs repo, and it became ERC-20. MistCoin is not itself an ERC-20 token. It has transfer and balanceOf but no approve, allowance, transferFrom or totalSupply. MistCoin was the first token created through Mist wallet's experiment in letting users deploy standard tokens with the click of a button.

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Unicorn Meat

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Deployed
March 2016
Created by
Alex Van de Sande (avsa)
Wrapped
July 2025 · 1:1 on Unicorn Meat (🍖)
Status
In rotation (demo)

Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation deployed Unicorn Meat in March 2016, seven minutes after the Unicorn Meat Grinder Association, a quadratic-voting DAO that let holders of the Foundation's Unicorn token grind them into Meat. It is a joke and a primary source at once: one of the first demonstrations of turning one token into another, and of on-chain governance. Piper Merriam took control of the Association by proposal later that year; in 2025 the same mechanism was used again to fix supply at 100 million and renounce the contract for good.

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HashToken

HTK
Deployed
June 2016
Created by
RexetBlell
Status
In rotation (demo)

A self-limiting mineable token, deployed 17 June 2016: you earn HTK by finding a value whose hash against the previous one lands under a target, and every successful mint tightens that target by one percent, permanently. It is the first Ethereum token to put an increasing-difficulty hash puzzle inside the contract itself rather than trusting work done somewhere else. Early mints were done by hand through Mist; after the contract was rediscovered in 2025, people were mining it with GPUs.

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AyeAyeCoin

WAAC
Deployed
August 2015
Created by
Linagee
Wrapped
May 2024 · 1:1 on ayeAyeCoin
Status
In rotation (demo)

Linagee deployed AyeAyeCoin on 20 August 2015, three weeks after Ethereum's mainnet launch, naming it after a lemur. It is the earliest known Ethereum token with an animal identity, and the earliest known to hand itself out through an on-chain faucet: six million coins, one per call, until they were gone. It predates ERC-20 by more than a year, which is why it needs a wrapper to reach a modern market.

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Meme

MEME
Deployed
April 2016
Created by
Matt Beton
Status
In rotation (demo)

Deployed in April 2016 by Matt Beton, who was thirteen years old at the time, mining ETH on a GTX 970 to experiment on mainnet. Meme is a puzzle token: you mint by calling rewardMathGeniuses() with the exact cube root of the current challenge. Submit a wrong answer and the supply locks forever. The code came from a snippet that was once on ethereum.org itself. Nine years later, tschoerv hard-capped total supply at 690,420.

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VEGASCOIN

THE MACHINE ITSELF
Deployed
January 2017
Supply
777,777,777
Template
ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken
Standard
Already ERC-20 compatible. No wrapper needed.

VegasCoin was deployed to Ethereum in January 2017, one of roughly a dozen tokens from that era. Built from the ConsenSys MyAdvancedToken template, it shipped close enough to the emerging ERC-20 standard that it did not need wrapping to trade on modern infrastructure. ERC-20 would not be finalized for another eight months, and the ICO summer that made token contracts routine had not started yet. It is the token the machine runs on, and it is the thing you are buying.

VegasCoin on EthereumHistory.com
About this roomEvery relic in rotation was deployed before ERC-20 was finalized in September 2017. Each implements its own variation of the token interface. MistCoin was the first token created through Mist wallet's one-click token deployment experiment. Most needed 1:1 wrappers to trade on modern infrastructure; HashToken and VegasCoin were close enough to the standard that they did not. What the placard dates is the original underneath the wrapper. Every date and name here is the deployment EthereumHistory records, checked against the block timestamp of the creation transaction. Contract addresses come from the environment and are never guessed: an unconfigured relic reads “not configured” rather than showing a plausible-looking address. Counts are tallied from events seen in this browser session, so they start at zero on every reload. A lifetime count would need an indexer reading the machine’s delivery logs.