But not all smart contracts are tokens , according to Martha Bennett, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. “You can have smart contracts running on Ethereum that trigger an action based on a condition without an ERC-20 or ERC-721 token involved,” she said.
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Just like other Ethereum tokens, ERC20 tokens are implemented as smart contracts and executed on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) in a decentralized manner.
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