Asset Lists

Description

Asset Lists are inpsired by the Token Lists project on Ethereum, which helps discoverability of ERC20 tokens by mapping ERC20 contracts to their associated metadata. Asset Lists offer a similar mechanism to allow frontends and other UIs to fetch metadata associated with Cosmos SDK denominations, especially for assets sent over IBC, although, this standard is a work in progress. You'll notice that the format of assets in the assetlist.json structure is a strict superset json representation of the banktypes.DenomMetadata from the Cosmos SDK; this is purposefully done so that this standard may eventually be migrated into a Cosmos SDK module in the future, so it can be easily maintained on chain instead of on GitHub. The assetlist JSON Schema can be found at the Chain Registry here.

Prerequisite

The .assetlist.json files herein are generated, which will be triggered by additions to the corresponding osmosis.zone_assets.json file, fetching the metadata from the Cosmos Chain Registry. One prerequisite to adding an asset here is complete registration of the asset and it's originating chain (and the IBC connection between the origin chain and Osmosis, if not native to Osmosis) to the Cosmos Chain Registry, so please make sure that's done first.

How to Add Assets

Please see the asset listing requirements to display assets on Osmosis Zone web app.

To add an asset, add a new asset object to the very bottom of the osmosis.zone_assets.json file, containing the asset's base denom and chain name.

base_denom is the indivisible, minimial (exponent 0) denomination unit for the asset, which is also the value defined as base for the asset in the Chain Registry.
chain_name must be the exact value defined as chain_name for the chain in the Chain Registry--it is also the name of the chain's directory in the Chain Registry.
path is required for all ics20 assets (assets that have been transferred from another chain to Osmosis via IBC), which includes the vast majority of tokens except for those deployed directly on Osmosis. It requires: the IBC port; the IBC channel; and the base denomination representation that is used as input for the IBC denomination hash function (which is usually just the base denom of the asset on the origin chain (e.g., uatom), but sometimes can be different)
- e.g., "path": "transfer/channel-8008135/ucoin"
In the Pull Request, be sure to add in the description, or leave a comment, of the pool_id of the liquidity pool(s)
You may also notice some booleans:
- osmosis_verified should always be set to false unless modified by, or explicitly instructed otherwise by, Osmosis Labs or maintainers of this repository. This indicates whether the 'Unverified Assets setting must be toggled to reveal the asset by default on various Osmosis Zone app pages (Swap, Assets, Pools).
- osmosis_unlisted should always be included and set to true(, meaning it will NOT show up on Osmosis Zone app,) until after the asset's respresntation, transfer experience, and explorer URL to the transaction hash have all been validated by Osmosis Labs, at which point it can be set to false (or, preferrably, removed).

Zone Example

An example asset object in osmosis.zone.json:

{
  "base_denom": "uosmo",
  "chain_name": "osmosis",
  "osmosis_verified": true,
},
...
{
  "base_denom": "ustk",
  "chain_name": "steakchain",
  "path": "transfer/channel-69/ustk",
  "osmosis_verified": true,
  "listing_date_time_utc": "2024-01-24T10:58:00Z"
},
{
  "base_denom": "ufoocoin",
  "chain_name": "fubarchain",
  "path": "transfer/channel-420/ufoocoin",
  "osmosis_verified": false
  "osmosis_unlisted": true
}

Dependencies

Note that there are apps, interfaces, and tools that look at this repository as a data dependency: