Counterparty Developer Timeline and Asset Timeline (2014-2024)

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This repository is dedicated to publicly organizing and critiquing a public list for Counterparty’s vast historical tokens, projects, wallets, historical sales, developer updates and forks to the Counterparty Protocol since Counterparty’s inception.

The Time.Graphics infographic is a visual representation of the data.

The markdown files include the information shown on the Time.Graphics timeline in an easily readable manner. The JSON files include that same information in a more organized way for future use in presenting the data.

Timeline Data

Counterparty Developer/Token Timeline Visual Infographic

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All Data Included in the Timeline in JSON format

Counterparty Developer Timeline Data in Markdown Format

Counterparty Developer Timeline Data (JSON version)

Counterparty Token/Project Timeline Data in Markdown Format

Counterparty Token/Project Timeline Data (JSON version)

Goal

The goal for this data is to eventually include it all into a cool infographic style Historical Timeline to be published on Counterparty.io in a new page titled “History”.

This timeline idea was originally published in this Counterparty Forum post which was about updating the Counterparty website to include more current information. It was then moved to these two posts: here and here, but now finally lives here in this Github repository.

It is my hope that this data below will give more inspirational education to the current and future Counterparty community, as well as give light on historical and groundbreaking projects done in the past using the Counterparty protocol.

Shoutout to Damian at Rarepepes.com for showcasing the timeline.

Notes From the Author

This is still a public draft.

The process of gathering blockchain information, organizing the data correctly and getting critiques is still underway.

Since Adam Krellenstein recently archived and paused the CIP process, CIP data from before that date of archival is included in the CIP list.

Proposal data from the community has now been moved to the Counterparty Github Forums, or to be found somewhere in the Milestones section of counterparty-core.

I invite you to verify, critique and fork this information to perfect this list so all can benefit off of the goal of publishing this content on Counterparty.io and for any educational purposes beyond that.

Feel free to reach out to me on Telegram or on Twitter if you need to request changes to information or would like to contribute to the data included here.

Updates in Progress

Add Other Notable Blockchain Events

Namecoin Protocol Begins - April 18, 2011
Ethereum Protocol Begins - July 30, 2015
Dogeparty Protocol Begins - August 13, 2014
Ordinal Protocol Begins - January 21, 2023
Mastercoin (Colored Coins with Omni Protocol) - July 31, 2013
First DNS names on Emercoin - July 26, 2014

Blockchain/Github Data to be Shown Visually

overlay Bitcoin Price above mid line
overlay XCP Price above mid line
overlay Number of XCP transactions below mid line
overlay Commits graphic below mid line:

Entries Up Next:

add Robby Dermody Interview: https://youtu.be/FUZJ0QRjVUI
add John Villar interview: https://youtu.be/f7p4izksjxo

add Unspendable Labs 'Horizon' wallet - Sept 25, 2024 - https://x.com/UnspendableLabs/status/1838708329440248022 (https://wallet.unspendablelabs.com/) - https://github.com/UnspendableLabs/Horizon-Wallet

add TESTGALLERY by JL - https://github.com/davestaxcp/CounterpartyTimeline2023/issues/1

change Atomic Swaps developer entry to infer Keyuno's proposal as proposed and (include entry of and..) show Derp Herpenstein's proposal as developed

Next ones to research:

lots of tokens not mentioned related to Lets Talk Bitcoin - https://tokenscan.io/asset/BOOKKEEPER
Tokenly wallet by Adam Levine- 'Tokenly Pockets' - included dispensers, DEx etc etc
Token FM
FLOONIES collection : https://flooney.wordpress.com/
other Rare Pepe cards with token access content (full list: DJPEPE, DROPPEPE, EGGPLANTPEPE, HIPPIEPEPE, JUNSETHPEPE, MAUIPEPE, PAWNTHELAMBO, PEPEAUCTIOND, PEPEBALT, PEPEINTRO, PEPENATION, PEPETANGCLAN, PEPLACE, PEPLACERESLT, RELAXPEPE, THREERARE, YAMAPEPE)
another token by weex? KETF - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2x09wb/steal_this_art_crack_its_key/ - https://tokenscan.io/asset/KETF
more info on Swarm and early tokens: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=664071.msg7487628#msg7487628 - https://tokenscan.io/asset/SWARMPRE - https://tokenscan.io/asset/GOLDTICKET - https://tokenscan.io/asset/SWARM - https://youtu.be/LBBvay6n5kc
vennd.io ? ^ related to Swarm? - VENND - "ICO token dispenser"
DTT - physical gold tokens before it was a thing
XBET-IO and BETXCP - on-chain betting (DEX)
"BlockTT" - institutional (B2B) stablecoin with DEX for settlement on Counterparty, by Matthew Tan et al (DBS Hackathon, Singapore, 2015) - https://x.com/i/status/1854158581735780463 - https://x.com/armchairancap/status/1854433068393877756
Coinify? app coin ico crowd sales?
Topcoin? - https://www.counterparty.io/news/counterparty-update-080316/
Dogeparty fork? when?

https://tokenscan.io/asset/PERMACREDITS - https://x.com/i/status/1854158581735780463
https://tokenscan.io/asset/NICEPLUM - https://x.com/i/status/1854158581735780463
XCPTORCH.Chiguireitor - 2019-03-02 - https://xchain.io/asset/XCPTORCH - related to Lightning Torch? Predated by DUTCHIE? - (1/1 NFT's passing between people who add content to the token) - influenced FAKETORCH in Fake Rares
Bitcoin Comic https://bitcoincomic.org/ - https://x.com/BitcoinComic - https://tokenscan.io/asset/COMICBOOK - https://tokenscan.io/asset/COMICCOIN - relation to SWARM..??... seems there are a few more tokens connected to this as well as SWARM
2019-03-11 – GESAMTKUNSTW.ERK – https://medium.com/chain-of-thoughts/must-we-all-become-a-gesamtkunstwerk-b72fa6098930 - tokenized article with a Nathan copymint on XCP
First serialized NFTs for a poker website?: https://forums.counterparty.io/t/ann-bitnplay-a-new-age-for-poker-partner-tokens/676 - found from: https://jpjanssen.com/a-timeline-of-non-fungible-tokens-on-counterparty/ - Bitcointalk forum post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=906422 - "BNPXX" token 1/1 types: https://xchain.io/search?query=BNP
THEDEVSTAR - https://x.com/jp_janssen/status/1577919227754942465
PETAMINE, EARNFREEBTC, XBTC and SPECULATE: https://forums.counterparty.io/t/petamine-mine-bitcoins-with-your-counterwallet/390 - https://forums.counterparty.io/t/ann-speculate-weekly-payouts/503 - https://forums.counterparty.io/t/ann-earnfreebtc-earn-weekly-dividends/313
Searching for the first XCP asset to use an Ordinal Description
SEIMEI - 2018
The Augmentor's Game - seen on SharkTank? - https://steemit.com/games/@tonylondon/the-augmentor-s-game - GENOFLIGHT as Augmentor card but also in SOG - playable in SOG! - issued by? https://xchain.io/address/1Rjkk2nrfmFbYN3fvxkdsEQi6QtJPnWKS
First Augmented Reality token? Before Fake Rare?
Firsts in Fake Rare? FakeDust (music player/multi layered token) - others?
First 3D designed art on an XCP token?
| The Nakamotos | thenakamotos.club | Unique PFPs tied to each of the Nakamotos cards (RAREPEPE) - instance of "Serialized XCP Tokens"
| Phunchkins | https://phunchkins.com/ | https://web.archive.org/web/20231208182144/https://phunchkins.com/
| Pepemon | https://pepemon.net/ |
| Wojak NPC | https://wojaknpc.com/ |
| PepeVote | needmoney90? | https://soundcloud.com/unconfirmed-transactions/xcp-on-blast-pepe-vote
https://xchain.io/asset/TITFORTAT
https://xchain.io/asset/BLINGZ
https://xchain.io/asset/DIAMONDBOND
https://xchain.io/asset/STEEMSTARS
https://xchain.io/asset/TAHI
https://xchain.io/asset/HQLEADERS
https://xchain.io/asset/KEVCOIN
https://xchain.io/asset/NOVATOKEN
when it all settles down... the 9.6 + 10.4+ protocol fork drama - https://tokenscan.io/asset/UNITYXCP

Acknowledgments

An entire bibliography is included of all works cited.

I'd like to give a huge shoutout to the digital cryptographic archaeological work done by JP Janssen.

Furthermore I would like to thank so many individuals for the help and influence along the way: Whiterabbit1111, Doggfather, Blackstar, Jake Gallen, Shannon Code, RarePepeNews, Scrilla, Theo Goodman, Joe Looney, Nutildah/dogermint, Jdog, LiteBit, Sebuh, ZeroG, Helene, Rob Mitchell, Dan Anderson, Indelible Trade, Christian Moss, Nicolas Sierro, Shaban Shaame and so many more that I have a hard time keeping track of all of the beautiful people who have helped compile this information... the list could go on and on

If I haven't included your name, know I give you all the love in the world. I could not have compiled all of this information without the generous and critical eye of the original and current Counterparty Community.

Rest in Peace John Villar <3

I have pulled my information from many various general sources:

The Bitcoin Talk Forums

These Podcasts:

Art On The Blockchain

The Bitcoin Game

The Adam McBride Show

Bitcoin Uncensored

HODLCast

unconfirmed transactions

Let's Talk Bitcoin

These Interviews: