Forgotten‑ETH project example
A published project dug through 2015–2019 Ethereum contracts to recover over 76k ETH via a 'Forgotten ETH' tool — a real‑world example of a portfolio project that combined on‑chain investigation, tooling, and impact. The thread surfaced as a model for production‑grade, domain‑specific student projects. (x.com)
The Forgotten ETH project scanned 116 legacy Ethereum contracts from the 2015–2019 era and reported 76,000+ ETH recoverable across roughly 516,000 depositors. (bitbbq.com) The public dashboard lists per-contract stuck balances with top entries including IDEX v1 at 16,248.56 ETH, EtherDelta v2 at 15,246.84 ETH, ENS Old Registrar at 11,841.56 ETH, and DigixDAO at 11,091.60 ETH. (forgotteneth.com) The code is published on GitHub under q84c6tsm95-create/forgotten-eth and is described as a free, open‑source tool that automates discovery of unclaimed balances and produces withdrawal transactions. (github.com) Threaded promotion and coverage of the project state the tooling scans all 116 contracts and crafts the necessary withdrawal transactions, and call out concrete examples such as a single ENS registrar deed holding 10,000 ETH. (bitbbq.com) Reporting places this initiative alongside other on‑chain recovery efforts; interviews with Coinbase product director Conor Grogan document individual recoveries of roughly $322K–$350K and broader research identifying 913,000+ ETH as permanently lost or unclaimable in other analyses. (protos.com) Visible deliverables from the project — contract inventory, per‑contract ETH totals, an automated withdrawal TX generator, a web UI, and an open GitHub repo — align with the production‑grade portfolio signals recruiters cite (live demos, public code, measurable impact) when evaluating engineering candidates. (forgotteneth.com)
