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by nailer 738 days ago
'Token' is the generic term people have settled on. 'Currency' is rare.

A stock would be a 'tokenized equity', in the same way there's 'tokenised real estate', 'tokenised metals', 'tokenised bonds', whatever the real world asset is.

'In-game currency' is indeed used by gaming people, since that was their term from before blockchain.