Token Units

1 aergo = 1 * 10^18 aer = 1 * 10^9 gaer

The Aergo CLI and client libraries have support for these units, i.e. you can specify transaction amounts as 1 aergo instead of 1000000000000000000.

Note that amounts in the base unit aer exceed the range of 64-bit integers. You need some implemention of Big Integer to deal with these numbers. Aergo SDKs come bundled with a recommended way to do that. In most cases, you can just use strings instead of numbers. For example, when creating a JSON transaction, set

    "amount": "1000000000000000000"