witterlee / ic-token

Token canister templates for the DFINITY Internet Computer.

Introduction

Token standard is essential for the Internet Computer ecosystem, especially for the decentralized finance(DeFi) system, this repository contains code of several token canister templates, developers can choose whichever implementation to issue their own tokens.

Token templates:

• simple-erc20: Simple ERC20 style token canister implemented in motoko
• erc20: Improved ERC20 style token canister template implemented in motoko
• token-rs: Rust implementation of token canister templates

Development

You need the latest DFINITY Canister SDK to be able to build and deploy a token canister:

sh -ci "$(curl -fsSL https://sdk.dfinity.org/install.sh)"

Navigate to a token sub directory and start a local development network:

cd erc20
dfx start --background

Create canisters:

dfx canister create --all

Install code for token canister:

dfx build

dfx canister install token --argument="(\"<NAME>\", \"<SYMBOL>\", <DECIMALS>, <TOTAL_SUPPLY>, <YOUR_PRINCIPAL_ID>)"
e.g.:
dfx canister install token --argument="(\"DFinance Coin\", \"DFC\", 8, 10000000000000000, principal \"4qehi-lqyo6-afz4c-hwqwo-lubfi-4evgk-5vrn5-rldx2-lheha-xs7a4-gae\")"

Refer to demo.sh in the corresponding sub directory for more details.

Contributing

We'd like to collaborate with the community to provide more and better token template options for the developers on the IC, if you have some ideas you'd like to discuss, submit an issue, if you want to improve the code or you made a different implementation, make a pull request!