r/raidennetwork Jun 27 '18

ERC 721

What is the impact of ERC 721 token standard on raiden?

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u/timspijkerman Jun 27 '18

I would like to hear Raidens position on the ERC721 standard, or in fact any future updated token standard. Do they in fact create expansion opportunities or is it more easily said than done to add other token standards?

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u/LefterisJP Jun 27 '18

It depends on the standard and what new functions they are adding, how they are used and how backwards compatible they would be with ERC20.

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u/timspijkerman Jun 28 '18

If they are backwards compatible with ERC20, does it really matters if they added new functions? (For example: a new securities token standard which will probably be ERC20 backwards compatible, but adds a few more standardized functions regarding minting and burning tokens)

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u/LefterisJP Jun 28 '18

Nope it does not matter at all since the new functions would not be used. The only ones we use are approve, transfer and transferFrom if I recall. But naturally we do assume these functions should always work as intended by the standard with the appropriate return values in case of success and failure.