How to detect if an ethereum address is an ERC20 token contract

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If only get an ethereum address from input, is there anyway to find out whether it match ERC20?

Sep 25, 2018 in Blockchain by sabby
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There are many possible ways to achieve this. One possible quick and dirty solution is to check if a ERC20 function exists on the contract address by calling the following:

eth.call({to:contractAddress, data:web3.sha3("balanceOf(address)")})

A non-ERC20 will return a 'null' 0x hex response whereas an ERC20 will give you a 32byte uint, in this case 0 but if you provide an address in the data then it will give you the actual token balance for that address.

This is not a guaranteed way of determining a contract is ERC20 since other contracts may expose the same function, however it is a quick and easy check. You could add additional calls on totalSupply() etc. for more confirmation.

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answered Sep 25, 2018 by Christine
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