EthHub founder Eric Conner said he has written a new Ethereum Request for Comments proposal, ERC-8391, aimed at giving tokenized stocks and real-world assets an onchain asset-status interface. The proposal addresses a practical gap in current smart-contract design: tokenized equities can trade around the clock onchain, while the New York Stock Exchange is open only 32.5 hours per week. In that setup, contracts may struggle to tell whether a stale price reflects a normal market closure, a broken oracle feed, or a corporate event such as an acquisition during off-hours. Those situations can look identical at the byte level onchain, even though the correct contract response would differ. Conner also pointed to other pieces of information that prices alone do not convey, including trading halts, limit-up or limit-down locks, and redemption windows. Under ERC-8391, the standard would define what questions a contract can query about an asset’s status, covering market phase, halts, valuation activity, and redemption windows. Oracles would be able to feed that data into the interface, with the token responding to those queries.