# Memo Field in Transactions

**URL:** https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/memo-field-in-transactions/3073
**Category:** Research and Development
**Created:** [May 2, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/memo-field-in-transactions/3073 "2021-05-02T15:09:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![TezosGovernance](https://forum.tezosagora.org/user_avatar/forum.tezosagora.org/tezosgovernance/32/705_2.png) [@TezosGovernance](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/TezosGovernance)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/memo-field-in-transactions/3073/1 "2021-05-02T15:09:14Z")

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Tiamat writes “I’m looking for a way to store information (few bytes) in a Tezos transaction, on BTC I’m using OP\_RETURN field but is there a similar field in Tezos transactions ?”

Arthur replied “… it wouldn’t be a bad idea to add native support for a memo field in transactions in future protocol versions.”

> <https://tezos.stackexchange.com/questions/2483/is-there-an-op-return-or-memo-field-in-tezos-transactions>

A memo field would extend the functionality of Tezos by a lot without much code change. It would help create easy integration points and allow Tezos to act more like a database. The link above describes that we currently need to jump through many hoops for something that could be taken care of by a simple memo field. Bitcoin and many other coins have this native ability including our competition Algorand. I highly advise this be added to a future protocol version before developers discover the power of the memo field in other coins.

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### Author: ![tezoswakenbake](https://forum.tezosagora.org/user_avatar/forum.tezosagora.org/tezoswakenbake/32/494_2.png) [@tezoswakenbake](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/tezoswakenbake)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2021, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/memo-field-in-transactions/3073/2 "2021-05-06T02:42:43Z")

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Agree, let’s do it.

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### Author: ![dungar](https://forum.tezosagora.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@dungar](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/dungar)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/memo-field-in-transactions/3073/3 "2021-05-09T04:19:00Z")

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Would [TZIP Explorer](https://tzip.tezosagora.org/proposal/tzip-21) address this functionality?

If not, why not? What could a memo field do that the above cannot do?

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### Author: ![asbjornenge](https://forum.tezosagora.org/user_avatar/forum.tezosagora.org/asbjornenge/32/689_2.png) [@asbjornenge](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/asbjornenge)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/memo-field-in-transactions/3073/4 "2021-05-12T08:52:02Z")

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Great idea! 🙌

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### Author: ![TezosGovernance](https://forum.tezosagora.org/user_avatar/forum.tezosagora.org/tezosgovernance/32/705_2.png) [@TezosGovernance](https://forum.tezosagora.org/u/TezosGovernance)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/memo-field-in-transactions/3073/5 "2021-05-12T15:26:41Z")

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Hi dungar that is an excellent TZIP however that one is geared towards the metadata of a token and I am more concerned with the metadata of a transaction. Each transaction can act as a record in a database.