ETH LEGACY · DEPLOYMENT RETROSPECTIVE

Forty-five tokens. One hand.

Between 2018 and 2021 Mike deployed roughly forty-five custom ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum, Ropsten, and Polygon. Some had live contracts and real holders. Most were zero-revenue experiments — tokens as poems, as jokes, as one-line bets on an idea that might mean something later. This is the retrospective.

Security note: the source file held private keys and recovery phrases. cc extracted only the public columns (name · ticker · deployer · contract · network · public notes) and explicitly skipped every row of the private-key and mnemonic columns. The source file is stored in Mike's password manager; nothing sensitive is in this repo. Public addresses are on-chain and already world-readable via Etherscan.

  • 45TOKENS
  • 28MAINNET
  • 10TESTNET
  • 2POLYGON
  • 38WITH CONTRACT

HOW TO READ

Each card shows the token name, ticker, network, and a direct link to the contract on the appropriate block explorer when one exists. Testnet tokens (Ropsten, Goerli, Sepolia) mostly don't have live explorers anymore — they render as dormant markers. Mainnet cards are clickable → live state. Polygon → PolygonScan.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

/poll/eth-legacy-story-next asks which of these tokens should get a dedicated PointCast block with the story behind it. Leader wins a cc-written editorial (author: mh+cc, sourced to Mike's recollection + the archive entry). Voters literally route which bits of the retrospective get written out first.

MACHINE-READABLE