Why does my smart contract tokens not show up in MyEtherWallet or MetaMask?

Question

I have deployed a very basic smart contract to the Rinkeby test network. The contract's address is 0xb145b6d8757b40ac80b5fe2a98ab6c8450a54585. I have made transactions to it using MetaMask, and they show up on Etherscan, for instance this: https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0x63802d405b809434a34050176c7050549e323b75443b0ae8096ab81985f18b9f . The transaction also shows as "confirmed" in MetaMask. I am also able to confirm that my MetaMask account has tokens using truffle console and checking the account address's balance of tokens.

However, even though I add the token in MetaMask with contract address=0xb145b6d8757b40ac80b5fe2a98ab6c8450a54585, symbol=BRR and decimals=18, they don't show up in MetaMask. The same thing happens if I "watch token" in MyEtherWallet. What could I be doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to give Metamask the address of the token itself, not the address of the contract that created the token, like you did. I made the same mistake myself.

Answer 2

I have found why i could NOT see my tokens in my metamask wallet,

1) Login into My Ether Wallet & Access MetaMask wallet

2) CLICK ethplorer.io under TOKEN BALANCES (The token contract address used previously from etherscan.io, to create token wallet was INVALID)

3) Search & Copy contract address from ethplorer.io

4) Search & Copy number of token decimals from etherscan.io

5) Add custom token wallet in MEW or MetaMask

6) Refresh and balances of tokens should show

Thank you