Assets on Injective are represented as denoms. Denoms (and the amounts) are not human readable and this is why we need to have a way to “attach” token metadata information for a particular denom.Let’s recap the types of denoms we have in the Getting Started section:
Native denoms - there is only one denom of this type, the inj denom which represented the native coin of Injective,
Peggy denoms - these denoms represent assets bridged over from Ethereum to Injective using the Peggy bridge. They have the following format peggy{ERC20_CONTRACT_ADDRESS}
IBC denoms - these denoms represent assets bridged over from other Cosmos chains through IBC. They have the following format ibc/{hash}.
Insurance Fund Denoms - these denoms represent token shares of the insurance funds created on Injective. The have the following format share{id}
Factory Denoms - these denoms represent a CW20 token from Cosmwasm on the Injective native bank module. They have the following format factory/{CW20_ADAPTER_CONTRACT}/{CW20_CONTRACT_ADDRESS} where the CW20_ADAPTER_CONTRACT is the adapter contract address that converts CW20 and the native Bank module.
We maintain our token metadata list off-chain for faster access to the injective-lists repository.
Verifying your token’s metadata can be done in a couple of ways. Here are the verification levels and what they mean:
Verified → Your asset metadata has been submitted and verified to the @injectivelabs/token-metadata package. You can find a tutorial on how to add your token’s metadata to the package here.
Internal → Your asset’s metadata has been verified on-chain using the MsgSetDenomMetadata message, as explained here.
External → Your asset’s metadata has been verified on some external source like from Ethereum’s contract details, etc.
Unverified → Your asset’s metadata has not been provided anywhere.
