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Glossary

ERC-1155

An Ethereum token standard that combines fungible and non-fungible balances in one contract, with batched transfers — widely used by games.

Designed at Enjin for game inventories. An ERC-1155 contract can hold arbitrarily many token IDs, where each ID can be either fungible (many owners, balances per ID) or non-fungible (supply of one, single owner).

The standout feature is batched transfers: many IDs can move in a single transaction, saving substantial gas versus one ERC-721 transfer per token. Most onchain games and many newer NFT collections issue via ERC-1155 instead of ERC-721.