Term
Wei
The smallest unit of Ether; 1 ETH = 10^18 wei.
Type:
units
1
definition
Wei is the base unit used for accounting in Ethereum-style systems. Gas costs and balances are often measured in wei or gwei to avoid floating point errors.
Example 1.1
"A 0.01 ETH transfer equals 10,000,000,000,000,000 wei (1e16 wei)."
Related Terms
Gwei
→A denomination of ETH equal to 10^9 wei, commonly used to quote gas prices.
eth
unit
Gas
→The unit of computational work on EVM chains; users pay gas in the native token to execute operations in smart contracts.
eth
fee
Virtual Machine
→An execution environment that runs smart contract code deterministically across nodes (e.g., EVM).
computing
blockchain
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