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= Creating ERC20 Supply
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-In this guide you will learn how to create an ERC20 token with a custom supply mechanism. We will showcase two idiomatic ways to use OpenZeppelin Contracts for this purpose that you will be able to apply to your smart contract development practice.
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+In this guide, you will learn how to create an ERC20 token with a custom supply mechanism. We will showcase two idiomatic ways to use OpenZeppelin Contracts for this purpose that you will be able to apply to your smart contract development practice.
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The standard interface implemented by tokens built on Ethereum is called ERC20, and Contracts includes a widely used implementation of it: the aptly named xref:api:token/ERC20.adoc[`ERC20`] contract. This contract, like the standard itself, is quite simple and bare-bones. In fact, if you try to deploy an instance of `ERC20` as-is it will be quite literally useless... it will have no supply! What use is a token with no supply?
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}
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-Starting with Contracts v2 this pattern is not only discouraged, but disallowed. The variables `totalSupply` and `balances` are now private implementation details of `ERC20`, and you can't directly write to them. Instead, there is an internal xref:api:token/ERC20.adoc#ERC20-_mint-address-uint256-[`_mint`] function that will do exactly this:
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+Starting with Contracts v2, this pattern is not only discouraged, but disallowed. The variables `totalSupply` and `balances` are now private implementation details of `ERC20`, and you can't directly write to them. Instead, there is an internal xref:api:token/ERC20.adoc#ERC20-_mint-address-uint256-[`_mint`] function that will do exactly this:
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[source,solidity]
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The internal xref:api:token/ERC20.adoc#ERC20-_mint-address-uint256-[`_mint`] function is the key building block that allows us to write ERC20 extensions that implement a supply mechanism.
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-The mechanism we will implement is a token reward for the miners that produce Ethereum blocks. In Solidity we can access the address of the current block's miner in the global variable `block.coinbase`. We will mint a token reward to this address whenever someone calls the function `mintMinerReward()` on our token. The mechanism may sound silly, but you never know what kind of dynamic this might result in, and it's worth analyzing and experimenting with!
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+The mechanism we will implement is a token reward for the miners that produce Ethereum blocks. In Solidity, we can access the address of the current block's miner in the global variable `block.coinbase`. We will mint a token reward to this address whenever someone calls the function `mintMinerReward()` on our token. The mechanism may sound silly, but you never know what kind of dynamic this might result in, and it's worth analyzing and experimenting with!
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[source,solidity]
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