According to @jayantramanand, MANTRA Chain will deprecate ERC-20 support to avoid compounding fragmentation, reallocate resources from legacy infrastructure to strengthen MANTRA Chain, and cut integration complexity that arises when platforms must support two token versions (source: @jayantramanand). The author also cited a 5+ month migration timeline and gas costs under $2 for the process, providing concrete parameters for planning across trading venues and integrations (source: @jayantramanand).