{"document_id":"BLC-STUDY-0486","slug":"erc-7578","title":"Physical Asset Redemption","authors":"Lee Vidor , David Tan , Lee Smith , Gabriel Stoica","year":2023,"date_label":"2023","publisher":"Lee Vidor , David Tan , Lee Smith , Gabriel Stoica","paper_type":"Design paper","category":"Privacy","topics":["Privacy"],"source_url":"https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7578","source_label":"ERC 7578","legacy_pdf_path":null,"sha256":null,"sha256_note":"No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.","version":"Source cited by the 2023 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.","doi":null,"rights_status":"Official external source only","source_status":"Official source","use_status":"Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.","licence":null,"licence_label":"No licence recorded. Rights status under review.","full_text":null,"full_text_reason":"Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.","editorial_line":"ERC 7578, Physical Asset Redemption. This proposal is an extension of ERC-721 and implements additional functionality and information pertaining to the NFT’s underlying physical asset by capturing information that enables the holder of physical asset backed NFTs to verify authenticity and facilitate redemption of the underlying physical assets.","canonical_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/erc-7578","record_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/erc-7578","study_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/erc-7578","last_reviewed":"2026-10-01","last_checked":"2026-10-01","relationships":[{"rel":"Canonical reading","label":"ERC 7578 study","href":"/whitepaper/erc-7578"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Groth16","href":"/whitepaper/groth16"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Bulletproofs","href":"/whitepaper/bulletproofs"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Taproot","href":"/whitepaper/taproot"}]}