Ethereum ERC20 contract address

An ERC20 token is a standard used for creating and issuing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain . Smart contracts can then be used to create smart property or tokenized assets that people can invest in. ERC stands for “Ethereum request for comment,” and the ERC20 standard was implemented in 2015.

Writing an ERC20 Token in Solidity

An ERC-20 token contract is defined by the contract’s address and the total supply of tokens available to it, but has a number of optional items that are usually provided as well to provide more detail to users. These are the token’s name, its symbol, and the number of decimals.

A token contract is simply an Ethereum smart contract . “Sending tokens” actually means “calling a method on a smart contract that someone wrote and deployed”. At the end of the day, a token contract is not much more a mapping of addresses to balances, plus some methods to add and subtract from those balances.

Ethereum Token (ETH) ERC20 Token in Binance Smart Chain Mainnet. Token is implemented as ERC20 smart contract with address 0x2170ed0880ac9a755fd29b2688956bd959f933f8 .

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.