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Token Basics

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A token is a digitally represented unit with rules defined by a protocol or issuer. In Bitcoin education, this topic clarifies differences between native bitcoin units and tokenized or custodial claims.

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Curated resources (3)

• Cryptocurrency (article) Baseline terminology for coins, tokens, and blockchain-native units.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: eCash (article) Bitcoin-adjacent token-like systems and trust assumptions.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Sidechains (article) How external assets and rulesets can anchor to Bitcoin.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Addresses and Outputs
• What Is a Protocol?

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