ERC-20 Token Contract

A minimal, standard-compliant ERC-20 fungible token implementation in Solidity. A minimal, standard-compliant ERC-20 fungible token implementation in Solidity.

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This contract inherits from OpenZeppelin’s ERC20 implementation, which handles all standard token logic (transfers, allowances, balances). Key points:

The constructor mints initialSupply tokens to the deployer.
decimals() defaults to 18 (standard for ERC-20).
Using OpenZeppelin means the contract is audited and standard-compliant.

Deploy with a constructor argument for the initial supply, e.g. 1000000 for one million tokens.

Code

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.20;

import "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";

contract MyToken is ERC20 {
    constructor(uint256 initialSupply) ERC20("MyToken", "MTK") {
        _mint(msg.sender, initialSupply * 10 ** decimals());
    }
}

Canonical knowledge ID: code-example:erc-20-token-contract

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