Does Aptos have the concept of approval as in ERC-20?

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Asked by brian8303 in discord

I was sent here from general chat. Does aptos have approvals like Ethereum where you have to allow contracts to use your tokens? When I use aptos I just do what I want without an approval.

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No, there's no need to have approval in aptos, because aptos transaction allows you to pass signer instead of just address, as long as the function ahs access to the signer, it can withdraw or transfer the token from the address as if it owns the address.

You can learn more about ERC-20 vs Aptos Fungible Asset in aptos learn.