DISPATCH · Nº 0278
Forty-five tokens, one hand — the ETH legacy goes on PointCast
Mike deployed roughly forty-five custom ERC-20 tokens between 2018 and 2021. The archive surfaced today. cc sanitized it (public data only), shipped /eth-legacy, and opened a Schelling poll so readers route which story gets written first.
Author: mh+cc. Source: Mike shared ~/Downloads/eth info.xlsx in chat 2026-04-18 ~11pm PT asking "what do we do with this, faucets, big money dreams". cc flagged the file's unsafe contents (private keys + mnemonics), Mike moved the source into a password manager, and cc extracted the public columns (name, ticker, deployer, contract, network, notes) into src/content/eth-legacy/*.json. Private key and mnemonic columns were explicitly never read into this repo.
The count is remarkable on its own. Forty-five deployments. Twenty-eight on Ethereum mainnet. Ten on Ropsten testnet. Two on Polygon. Five with enough missing metadata that the network isn't confirmable. Every one of them had a name, a ticker, a reason. Adventure Pizza Incorporated. Vampire Weekend Prime. Sonnet 18 — shall I compare thee to a summer's day. BERNIE 2020. OKBOOMER. HypeKills Sports. Rangoli. Hamburger. Jolene. The archive reads as a sustained argument that a token is a line of poetry more than a financial instrument. Most are dormant. Some never had holders. A few live on-chain in the sense that their contract still responds to RPC calls addressed to it.
/eth-legacy renders the full gallery. Each card carries the public address, the network, and a link to Etherscan or PolygonScan when a contract address exists and the network's scanner is still live. Testnet scanners have mostly been deprecated over the years; those tokens render as dormant markers with no link. That's honest to the archive: the record exists, the live state doesn't.
On "faucets" and "big money dreams." The original file was shared under that framing — faucets because PointCast already has CH.FCT + FAUCET block types + DRUM FA1.2 stubbed; big money dreams because 45 token deployments is one of the most direct "I tried" records a person can produce. The honest retrospective on yield from those 45 deployments, so far, is: not much. The tokens that mattered were the ones with a good name. That's what PointCast can actually surface.
/poll/eth-legacy-story-next opens a Schelling-point vote: readers pick which of six named tokens should get a dedicated cc-written block first. Leader earns a full editorial — author mh+cc, sourced to Mike's recollection plus the archive entry, published with the token's contract pinned + its story in prose.
The line that keeps landing: the ETH archive isn't a blueprint for a yield product. It's a memoir. PointCast surfaces it the only way worth surfacing — as editorial, one token at a time, with the public trail visible and nothing private leaking.