August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
11h 19m
English
Content preview from Ethereum Cookbook
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The ERC in ERC20 stands for Ethereum Request for Comment. This is similar to the Request For Comments (RFC) concept used by the Internet Engineering Task Force. In Ethereum, ERC is derived from Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP). The EIPs describe standards for the Ethereum platform, including core protocol specifications, client APIs, and contract standards.
The proposals are categorized into three types: standard track, informational, and meta. The standard track proposals describe any change that affects most or all Ethereum implementations, such as a change to the network protocol, a change in block or transaction validity rules, or changes to proposed application standards/conventions. Informational proposals describe ...