From 7e41e332ee750c21cff633d4c6ae801de3cabd4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Desant pivo Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:14:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update tokens.adoc --- docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc index 217c5e04756..ba19e3f5e73 100644 --- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc +++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ A token is a _representation of something in the blockchain_. This something can Much of the confusion surrounding tokens comes from two concepts getting mixed up: _token contracts_ and the actual _tokens_. -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 than a mapping of addresses to balances, plus some methods to add and subtract from those balances. +A _token contract_ is simply an EVM-compatible 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 than a mapping of addresses to balances, plus some methods to add and subtract from those balances. It is these balances that represent the _tokens_ themselves. Someone "has tokens" when their balance in the token contract is non-zero. That's it! These balances could be considered money, experience points in a game, deeds of ownership, or voting rights, and each of these tokens would be stored in different token contracts. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ In a nutshell, when dealing with non-fungibles (like your house) you care about == Standards -Even though the concept of a token is simple, they have a variety of complexities in the implementation. Because everything in Ethereum is just a smart contract, and there are no rules about what smart contracts have to do, the community has developed a variety of *standards* (called EIPs or ERCs) for documenting how a contract can interoperate with other contracts. +Even though the concept of a token is simple, they have a variety of complexities in the implementation. Because everything in EVM-compatible blockchains is just a smart contract, and there are no rules about what smart contracts have to do, the community has developed a variety of *standards* (called EIPs or ERCs) for documenting how a contract can interoperate with other contracts. You've probably heard of the ERC-20 or ERC-721 token standards, and that's why you're here. Head to our specialized guides to learn more about these: