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Historical discovery: Aragon's ANT token deployed May 15, 2017 at block 3,711,733.
Etherscan verifies 0x960b...88c0 as ANT, Solidity v0.4.8+commit.60cc1668, optimizer on. The creation tx is 0x99b2...0679.
The ABI shows Aragon's token was not just transfer/approve: it carried controller logic, vesting grants, cloneToken(), enableTransfers(), and approveAndCall().
DAO tooling was already shipping governance-oriented token machinery before the 2017 ICO cycle peaked.
ethereumhistory.com/contract/0x960b236a07cf122663c4303350609a66a7b288c0