The symbol must be a maximum of 11 characters

idmr58 · August 27, 2022, 12:29pm

We should be able to add tokens with names more than 11 characters

KBeeTheCapybara · August 29, 2022, 5:42pm

Hey,

I think there is a Github ticket opened with similar request here if you’d like to post there too -

github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension

Increase Token Symbol Length

opened 02:20AM - 15 Aug 20 UTC

adrianmcli

type-enhancement

## What problem are you trying to solve? **In brief:** The token symbol lengt…h requirement of 12 characters is too short, we should raise it to 20 or more if possible. As expiring tokens become more popular, it is often desired to have the expiration date within the token symbol itself. For example, if I were to create a synthetic yielding token pegged to the USD while backed by ETH and expiring in September of 2020, I might want to use a token symbol of `xyUSDETH-SEP20` (14 characers). However, some users in our community at UMA have voiced a desire for lexicographically sortable symbol names. And the best way of doing this is to use the ISO standard of [ISO 8601](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601) calendar date-inspired format of YYYY-MM-DD. A possible desired symbol might be `xyUSDETH-2020.09.01` (19 characters). ## Describe the solution you'd like Increase the allowed token symbol length to 20 (or more). The specific length can be further discussed but I think 20 is a reasonable starting point. ## Additional context Implementation should be quite simple if we follow this previously merged PR: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/pull/5816