Hi, I’ve noticed that alredy exist some ASA with the same Name and Unit name. Shouldn’t at least one of these two properties, other then the ID, be unique to ensure the uniqueness of the asset for non-expert users?

Both asset name as well as unit name are “user interface artifacts”. It might be tempting to make them unique, but what would happen if someone would create two assets, one named “Dollar” and one named “D0llar”. Visually, they both looks the same ( almost; but some unicode characters might look exa…

Algorand Standard Assets uniqueness

cusma January 6, 2020, 3:05pm 3

Fair enough! IDs are rightly a good univocal key, given that one can always virtualize it through the unit name.

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Algorand Standard Assets uniqueness

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