MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
I spent years advocating for a new kind of web where you owned your own content. Worked on tools for decentralized storage, blockchain usernames, p2p networking.
Last week I asked an agent to scour the web for everything I ever posted on flickr, posterous, mirror, medium and the internet archive etc and to convert it into files I own locally. I took back control of my own content and digital life and all I needed was git and markdown.
blog.vandesande.design
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
Ethereum team introducing tokens in November 2025. Few days before DevCon 1 and few days before ERC20 standard proposal.
MistCoin is the memecoin for the “Tokenization supercycle”
ethereum:0x7fd4d7737597e7b4ee22acbf8d94362343ae0a79
xitter.cf/feindura/status/661550…
#Ethereum Wallet Beta 3 released - Including contract deployment and token support!
reddit.com/r/ethereum/commen…
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
One day, not too far, people will start to wonder why every stablecoin, every tokenized stock, every tokenized bond or in short, every tokenized asset, is called “ERC20 token”.
They’ll find out this post. And right after, they’ll find out about ethereum:0x7fd4d7737597e7b4ee22acbf8d94362343ae0a79
xitter.cf/feindura/status/186185…
I didn’t pick the number randomly, it was the GitHub issue number 20.
The idea was not that this becomes the official standard, but to be thr discussion for a future standard 😉
People just went with my written specification, and used the name ERC20
github.com/ethereum/EIPs/iss…
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
MistCoin on Ethereum History
ethereumhistory.com/contract…
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
The cryptographic world computer:
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties.
FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
Looks quite interesting for MistCoin ethereum:0x7fd4d7737597e7b4ee22acbf8d94362343ae0a79.
The 2015 token deployed by the ERC-20 author to prototype the standard token 16 days before proposing the standard with Vitalik.
God candles commence.
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
BIC has started posting token verifications on fomo to best inform traders on which tokens are authentic collectibles from their original creators
fomo.family/r/BIC_dao
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
memecoins are collectibles
you wouldn't buy fake pokemon cards printed by some random guy
so why do you buy memecoins minted by anon extractors?
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
Hey @VitalikButerin, I think we need to wrap your 2015 currency token so when you add Vb 2 it shows.
Sending you some MistCoin and Unicorn Meat.
📖
Introducing: Collectors 📖
1. Enter your address or ENS.
2. Generate your stats and card.
3. See where you rank and share!
Create an account or sign in to add multiple wallets into your score.
ethereumhistory.com/collecto…
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MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
What does tokenizing mean?
In most cases, it means converting a real-world asset into a token that follows the ERC-20 standard.
MistCoin was the proof of concept for that standard.
ethereum:0x7fd4d7737597e7b4ee22acbf8d94362343ae0a79
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
In 2015, someone deployed a token experiment on Ethereum.
Eight years later, 2,900 of those tokens landed in my wallet.
I sold them all for around $1 each.
Then I watched them run past $60.
The token was MistCoin. 🧵 #ETH2015
🤖 Made with AI
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
I traced the ERC-20 token standard back to its first line of code.
Every commit, every edit, every deployed contract, from June 2015 to September 2017. Primary sources only.
The full research is live on Ethereum History. 📖
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MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
MistCoin ethereum:0x7fd4d7737597e7b4ee22acbf8d94362343ae0a79 just hit $2 per coin.
MistCoin was deployed Nov 3, 2015 by EF dev Fabian Vogelsteller, working on the token standard and the Ethereum Wallet.
16 days after, just after DevCon 1, Fabian and Vitalik proposed ERC-20.
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MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
Ethereum turns 11 today.
Since mainnet went live on July 30, 2015, Ethereum has:
→ Never halted. Not once, across 11 years of continuous block production.
→ Become the settlement layer for stablecoins, holding more than half of all supply
→ Taken the largest share of tokenized real world assets of any network
→ Built the largest DeFi ecosystem in crypto, ~8x the next largest chain by TVL
→ Grown the largest developer ecosystem in the industry
→ Become the default venue for institutions coming onchain
No company owns it. No one can switch it off. Credibly neutral. Everything onchain is verifiable.
Here's to the next 11 years as Ethereum becomes the home of finance.
MistCoin | Origin of ERC-20 retweeted
🔥 TODAY: Ethereum’s mainnet genesis block was mined 11 years ago.
Happy birthday, $ETH.
