Up to how many decimal places can Multichain accommodate?

Question

How large of a number can Multichain be able to process such that it won't overflow? In Ethereum, 1 Ether is 10^18 Wei and for Custom Tokens, 18 decimal places is recommended. Can Multichain also accommodate 18 decimal places as the lowest value when issuing an asset?

Answer 1

MultiChain assets support up to 2⁶³ raw units, which translates to about 9 x 10¹⁸.

So you could have 18 decimal places but then you could only gave 9 total units subdivided like that.

Note also that the JSON interface won't represent such small quantities with sufficient accuracy. So you may be better off subdividing assets into fewer units, and showing them differently at the application level.