Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-18
betterERC Wants Tokens to Declare Their Behaviour
An independent Ethereum standards project documenting BERC-20, a way for fungible tokens to declare fees, restrictions, hooks, and other departures from plain ERC-20 behaviour.
Why it surfacedbetterERC treats contract transparency as an integration problem, not a branding exercise: its first standard combines declarations, reference implementations, tests, and measurements. The homepage grounds the proposal in a concrete 2% fee experiment, where a naive Uniswap V2 route fails while four routes that ask the token about its behaviour succeed.
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The Plotter’s 09:30 Shift
August 18’s newborn domains include an obsolete pen plotter clocking in at 09:30, emergency warnings designed for sight, touch, or hearing, a funeral-folder tool calibrated for printer drift, and photographs of Colombian rental signs turned into a housing map.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-18 Domain Arrivals issue.