An ancient Ethereum advertising experiment from before NFTs had a universal standard—carried into ERC‑721 in 2018 and reactivated as 106 scarce, verifiable MEH Genesis Rights.
The Genesis story
Ethereum has a long memory. MillionEtherHomePage entered that memory on December 13, 2016—at block 2,800,200—when the idea of owning a unique piece of a digital world was still experimental. That lineage now stands among the oldest surviving NFT-era artifacts accessible on Ethereum.
The first contract divided a million-pixel canvas into 10,000 individually addressed 10×10 parcels. It tracked landlords, resale prices, image assignments, referrals, and advertising state directly in a smart contract. This was digital property logic before “NFT” became the category everyone knows today.
On September 5, 2018, the project’s later contract carried the concept into ERC‑721. Million Ether Homepage concentrates that history into an exceptionally limited Genesis set: the exact 106 parcels already sold in the earlier ledger, preserved by an immutable Merkle root and connected to modern advertising and trading utility.
Why this artifact matters
The 2016 contract assigned specific grid coordinates to specific Ethereum addresses and let those owners control and resell their space. The mechanism is recognizably NFT-like even though ERC‑721 did not yet exist.
Dates, owners, coordinates, sales logic, and contract bytecode are not claims in a marketing database. They survive in public blocks that anyone can inspect independently.
Million Ether Homepage does not open the full 10,000-block grid. Its immutable allowlist recognizes only the 106 blocks present in the original sold set—a sharply bounded edition tied to the earliest ledger.
A qualifying owner can publish an ad, claim a transferable MEH Genesis Right, move it to another wallet, list it in ETH escrow, receive funded bids, and settle sales atomically.
The historical clock
Two dates matter: the project’s pre-standard property ledger in 2016, and its ERC‑721 artifact in 2018. Keeping those eras distinct makes the history stronger—not weaker.
The coordinate-based ownership and advertising ledger is deployed to Ethereum.
Arrives more than six months after the MEH property grid.
Arrives nearly a year after MEH’s first contract.
The standard NFT interface is proposed after MEH had already modeled unique digital parcels on-chain.
The grid enters the standardized NFT era as a 2018 ERC‑721 artifact.
The landmark on-chain generative art collection follows the MEH ERC‑721 deployment.
The generative art platform launches more than two years after the 2018 MEH artifact.
The profile-picture era arrives years after both generations of MEH.
The Genesis constraint
The original canvas contained 10,000 possible parcels. MEH Genesis eligibility is limited to 106 verified token IDs. The set is committed in the Genesis Rights contract as a fixed cryptographic root; there is no administrator who can expand it, substitute another ID, or dilute the edition.
Each ID also preserves its spatial meaning. Token #4550, for example, resolves to a precise X/Y location on the historical grid. Scarcity is both numerical and geographic: every right points to one specific piece of the canvas.
What Million Ether Homepage does now
The site reads the legacy contracts and proves whether a wallet controls one of the 106 eligible Genesis IDs.
The eligible legacy owner can mint the matching MEH Genesis Right once. The token ID stays aligned with its historical parcel.
The current controller can publish an image, headline, and destination link through the owner-controlled ad registry.
The right can move between wallets or enter fixed-price custody escrow with a transparent, immutable 3% settlement fee.
Collectors can place funded ETH offers. Matching asks and bids settle atomically during the signed market transaction.
The new owner inherits the ability to advertise, transfer, hold, or resell the MEH Right associated with that Genesis location.
Built for credible permanence. The MEH Rights and advertising contracts contain no administrator pause, upgrade switch, or power to confiscate a right. The escrow deployer’s special authority is limited to withdrawing the fixed 3% fees already earned by completed sales.
Veracity over mythology
Where it goes from here
Million Ether Homepage already provides ownership verification, transferable Genesis Rights, owner-controlled advertising, fixed-price listings, funded offers, automatic order matching, escrow settlement, and public market history.
There is no promised roadmap. Million Ether Homepage may evolve, remain exactly as it is, or inspire independent tools and experiences around the Genesis set. Ideas such as richer creative formats, token profiles, analytics, identity integrations, decentralized media, APIs, and historical exhibitions are possibilities only—not commitments, deadlines, or guarantees.
The artifact does not depend on future delivery to be real. Its origin, 106-token boundary, contracts, and on-chain history already exist. Any later development would be optional, subject to feasibility and interest, and should add around that record without rewriting it.
Verifiable Genesis profile
Ownership, advertising, analytics, and market history are read from Ethereum and Million Ether Homepage’s privacy-preserving site metrics.
Counts interactions on x1city.xyz. No raw IP addresses are persisted.
| Select a token to load history. |
The live city · 106 founding plots
A concentrated display of every Genesis Right. Live advertisements fill their plots; open plots remain visible invitations to join the city.
Reading current advertising creatives from Ethereum…
The original coordinate field
Owner utility
Before claim, control follows the frozen artifact owner. After claim, control follows the transferable MEH Genesis Right.
One-time genesis claim
Only the current owner of a verified genesis MEH token can claim its matching MEH Right. Claiming does not move or alter the original NFT.
How it works
A Merkle proof limits claims to the exact 106 genesis IDs.
Your MEH Right becomes the ad controller and market asset.
The original artifact remains frozen and unchanged.
Owner-controlled ads. The ad registry has no owner, pause function, fee switch, or upgrade key.
Owner command center
Portfolio intelligence
| Genesis | Right | Ad | Ask | Top bid | Impressions | Clicks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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MEH Rights OTC
Live on-chain market
Fixed-price custody listings, funded offers, and completed MEH Right sales.
Automatic matching: bids at or above an active ask settle at the ask; new asks at or below the highest funded bid settle at the bid.
| Asset | Ask | Top bid | Sales | Last sale | Seller | |
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| Asset | Bid | Current ask | Bidder | Updated | |
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| Asset | Price | Settlement | Seller | Buyer | Date | |
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Funded advertising offers and time-limited Genesis Right leases.
| Status | Asset | Payment | Term / expiry | Sponsor | Updated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Multi-right custody listings that transfer every included asset together.
| Listing | Assets | Price | Seller | Listed | |
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Reserve auctions with funded bids, public settlement, and anti-sniping extensions.
| Auction | Asset | Current / reserve | Top bidder | Ends | Seller | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Advanced owner utility
Verifying the live campaign, bundle, and auction contracts…
Advertisers fund an offer with creative and duration. An owner may accept, receive settlement credit, and place the MEH Right in term-limited custody while the sponsor controls the advertisement.
Package two to twenty-five MEH Rights into one custody listing. Every token transfers together or none of them do.
Run time-boxed auctions with custody, pull-payment refunds, public settlement, and a ten-minute anti-sniping extension.