Is a token just a smart contract?

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.

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Can smart contracts be written in Python?

SmartPy is based on Python 3 language and requires Python code syntax . Python developers will feel at home when starting to code smart contracts with SmartPy. However, note that although it is possible to import Python libraries through the import directive, some features will only work in the development environment.

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