Contracts Deployed using Nick's Method

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It is common in EVM-compatible chains to deploy "common good contracts" or "standards" using Nick's method, a way to send transactions using mocked signatures, which provides reassurance that no one actually has a private key for the generated address that sent the transaction.

Some example contracts that are deployed this way:

• ERC-1820 Registry

  • Implementation repo: https://github.com/0xjac/ERC1820
  • Mainnet contract (0x1820a4B7618BdE71Dce8cdc73aAB6C95905faD24):
    https://etherscan.io/address/0x1820a4B7618BdE71Dce8cdc73aAB6C95905faD24

• Deterministic Deployment Proxy (0x4e59…b4956C)

  • Implementation repo: https://github.com/Arachnid/deterministic-deployment-proxy
  • Mainnet contract (0x4e59b44847b379578588920cA78FbF26c0B4956C):
    https://etherscan.io/address/0x4e59b44847b379578588920cA78FbF26c0B4956C

• EIP-2470 Singleton Factory

  • Spec + reference code: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2470
  • Mainnet contract (0xce0042B868300000d44A59004Da54A005ffdcf9f):
    https://etherscan.io/address/0xce0042B868300000d44A59004Da54A005ffdcf9f

• Multicall3 (0xcA11…CA11)

  • Implementation repo: https://github.com/mds1/multicall3
  • Mainnet contract (0xcA11bde05977b3631167028862bE2a173976CA11):
    https://etherscan.io/address/0xcA11bde05977b3631167028862bE2a173976CA11

All of these are “common good” or infrastructure-style contracts that are either keyless deployments using Nick’s method or are deployed via canonical, immutable factories to provide strong guarantees about code and address consistency across chains.