Asset Notation

Understanding THORChain Asset Notation

MAYAChain uses a CHAIN.ASSET notation for all assets. TICKER and ID are added where required. The asset full notation is pictured.

There are three kinds of assets within MAYAChain:

Asset

Notation

Bitcoin

BTC.BTC (Native BTC)

Bitcoin

BTC/BTC (Synthetic BTC)

Bitcoin

MAYA.BTC (Derived BTC)

Ethereum

ETH.ETH

USDT

ETH.USDT-0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c13d831ec7

DASH

DASH.DASH (Native)

DASH

DASH/DASH (Synth)

CACAO

THOR.RUNE

Layer 1 (L1) chains are always denoted as CHAIN.ASSET, e.g. BTC.BTC.
As two tokens can live on different blockchains, the chain can be used to distinguish them. Example: USDC is on the Ethereum Chain and Arbitrum Chain and is denoted as ETH.USDC and ARB.USDC respectively; note the contract address (ticker) was removed for simplicity.
Tickers are added to denote assets and are required in the full name. For EVM based Chains, the ticker is the ERC20 Contract address, e.g. ETH.USDC-0XA0B86991C6218B36C1D19D4A2E9EB0CE3606EB48. This ensures the asset is specific to the contract address. The pools list shows assets using the full notation.
Synthetic Assets are denoted as CHAIN/ASSET instead of CHAIN.ASSET, e.g. Synthetic BTC is BTC/BTC and Synthetic USDT is ETH/USDT. While Synthetic assets live on the MAYAChain blockchain, they retain their CHAIN identifier.
Synthetic Assets can only be created from MAYAChain-supported L1 assets and are only denoted as CHAIN/ASSET, no ticker or ID is required.
Chain differentiation is also used for Synthetics, e.g. ETH/USDC and ARB/USDC are different Synthetic assets created and redeemable on different chains.

Derived Assets, currently specific to Lending, are denoted as MAYA.ASSET. E.g. MAYA.BTC is Derived Bitcoin.
All Derived Assets live on the MAYAChain blockchain and do not have a Chain identifier.
Currently, Derived Assets are used internally within MAYAChain only.

Last updated 9 months ago