For principals we use a textual encoding that looks like this: em77e-bvlzu-aq. It is defined in the spec and can encode any blob of data. There is now the very real possibility that the same encoding gets used for other things than principals. The first such use is going to be for account identifie…

Using the principals' textual encoding for other things than principals

timo September 19, 2022, 8:12am 4

ICRC-1 wants to use 0xff for the last byte for account identifiers: Ledger & Tokenization Working Group Update - #21 by roman-kashitsyn

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