Create IRC721 Token

IRC721 Standard (deprecated)

A standard interface for non-fungible tokens.

Notice

IRC721 was the NFT standard for IOST. But later we found its design has some flaws which are not easy to be fixed, so now we encourage developers to use another pure javascript NFT standard: IRC722.

Abstract

The non-fungible token issued on IOST must be implemented based on the system contract token721.iost. Most of the time you can issue tokens directly through the token721.iost contract, but if you want to issue a token with customization, you need to implement and publish your own token contract.

Note: Although token721.iost can be used now, it is not yet fully implemented. We plan to release a full-featured version in the near future, so don't use it in production environment until then.

Customized non-fungible token contracts need to implement the following interfaces to support applications such as wallets and browsers.

ABI

{
    "lang": "*",
    "version": "*",
    "abi": [
        // optional
        {
            "name": "issue",
            "args": [
                "string",   // token_symbol
                "string",   // to
                "string"    // meta
            ]
        },
        // required
        {
            "name": "transfer",
            "args": [
                "string",   // token_symbol
                "string",   // from
                "string",   // to
                "string"    // token_id
            ]
        },
        // required
        {
            "name": "approve",
            "args": [
                "string",   // token_symbol
                "string",   // from
                "string",   // operator
                "string"    // token_id
            ]
        },
        // optional
        {
            "name": "balanceOf",
            "args": [
                "string",   // token_symbol
                "string"    // owner
            ]
        },
        // optional
        {
            "name": "ownerOf",
            "args": [
                "string",   // token_symbol
                "string"    // token_id
            ]
        },
        // optional
        {
            "name": "tokenOfOwnerByIndex",
            "args": [
                "string",   // token_symbol
                "string",   // owner
                "number"    // index
            ]
        },
        // optional
        {
            "name": "tokenMetadata",
            "args": [
                "string",   // token_symbol
                "string"    // token_id
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Specification

token information

Token information is stored in token721.iost, and applications such as wallets should directly use the information stored in the token721.iost contract to ensure the reliability of the information.

issue(tokenSymbol, acc, metaJson)

Optional: applications MUST NOT expect this method to be present

Authority required: issuer of tokenSymbol

Issue tokenSymbol to acc account, metaJson is a json string of the newly issued token.

transfer(tokenSymbol, accFrom, accTo, tokenId)

Authority required: accFrom

Transfer tokenSymbol from accFrom to accTo with tokenId, If transfer needs to be called by a contract or other user (different from accFrom), accFrom must first call approve, otherwise an exception will be thrown. In the case of a contract call, you can call approve and then call the contract in the same transaction.

The criteria for successful transfer are consistent with the standard of the token721.iost contract: on the premise of successful transaction, the func_name field of the receipts field in tx_receipt is equal to token721.iost/transfer, the transfer is made. The currency, account, and tokenId need to be further parsed from the content field of this item.

approve(tokenSymbol, accFrom, accTrans, tokenId)

Authority required: accFrom

Allow accTrans to transfer the tokenSymbol token of a specific tokenId.

Throws if tokenId does not belong to accFrom.

Throws if approve is called by a contract.

The criteria for successful approval are consistent with the standard of the token721.iost contract: on the premise of successful transaction, the func_name field of the receipts field in tx_receipt is equal to token721.iost/approve, the approval is made. The currency, account, and tokenId need to be further parsed from the content field of this item.

balanceOf(tokenSymbol, acc)

Optional: applications MUST NOT expect this method to be present

Authority required: null

Query the balance of an account of tokenSymbol.

ownerOf(tokenSymbol, tokenId)

Optional: applications MUST NOT expect this method to be present

Authority required: null

Query the owner of a specific tokenSymbol token with tokenId.

tokenOfOwnerByIndex(tokenSymbol, owner, index)

Optional: applications MUST NOT expect this method to be present

Authority required: null

Query the meta info of a specific tokenSymbol token owned by owner with index.

tokenMetadata(tokenSymbol, tokenId)

Optional: applications MUST NOT expect this method to be present

Authority required: null

Query the meta info of a specific tokenSymbol token with tokenId.