diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc index 7f3253f48..b168756df 100644 --- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc +++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/tokens.adoc @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ A token is a _representation of something in the blockchain_. This something can Much of the confusion surrounding tokens comes from two concepts getting mixed up: _token contracts_ and the actual _tokens_. -A _token contract_ is simply an Ethereum smart contract. "Sending tokens" actually means "calling a method on a smart contract that someone wrote and deployed". At the end of the day, a token contract is not much more a mapping of addresses to balances, plus some methods to add and subtract from those balances. +A _token contract_ is simply an Ethereum smart contract. "Sending tokens" actually means "calling a method on a smart contract that someone wrote and deployed". At the end of the day, a token contract is not much more than a mapping of addresses to balances, plus some methods to add and subtract from those balances. It is these balances that represent the _tokens_ themselves. Someone "has tokens" when their balance in the token contract is non-zero. That's it! These balances could be considered money, experience points in a game, deeds of ownership, or voting rights, and each of these tokens would be stored in different token contracts.