Implement ERC20 Reward Token with Mint/Burn Roles

[dDevAhmed]

📚 Overview

TruthBounty requires a native ERC20 token to reward verifiers, power staking, and enable slashing.
This issue implements the core reward token with controlled minting and burning.

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🎯 Objectives

• Create ERC20 reward token
• Enforce role-based minting and burning
• Enable future integration with staking and slashing

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🧩 Technical Scope

• Use OpenZeppelin ERC20
• Implement roles:
  • MINTER_ROLE
  • BURNER_ROLE
• Restrict mint/burn to authorized contracts
• Emit events for transparency

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✅ Acceptance Criteria

• ERC20 token deployed
• Minting restricted to role
• Burning supported
• Tests cover role enforcement

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⏳ Complexity & Effort

Complexity: Medium
Estimated Effort: ~0.5 day

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🏷️ Labels

• contracts
• erc20
• rewards
• drips-wave

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[emarc99]

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I would love do this!

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I'm Anonfedora, I have vast experience in contributing and building on the Stellar ecosystem with the Rust using soroban's SDK.
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[aguilar1x]

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Hey, I’m Matias Aguilar full-stack & smart contract dev in the Stellar ecosystem and Parhfinder role in stellar community.

I’ve been building RWA tooling and DeFi apps with Soroban, and I love tackling technical challenges with fast-moving teams. Super excited to jump in and help with this one!

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I’m a blockchain developer with strong expertise in Stellar, Rust,TS and Stellar SDK integrations. I’ve worked on multiple Stellar-based smart contract and backend systems.

I understand the scope of this issue and can deliver a reliable, production-quality solution with proper tests and documentation.
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