How many decimals for Native Tokens? Maximum Supply?

[Gyther]

Out of Curiousity, what’s the maximum supply a native token can be made out to be? How big a number?

What’s the maximum number of decimal places for a native token?

[nimrod]

Here’s a related thread about “decimals” which is also pending clarification but might give you some idea:

How to Handle Fractions (Decimal Amounts) of Native Tokens?

One thing I’ve noticed with the minting of, and other transactions involving native tokens, is that we only deal with integers. This is well taken care of in the case of ADA and Lovelace… but how do we effectively and gracefully handle transactions involving fractions of native tokens? What if we have existing assets from other blockchains that want to have cross-chain operations with Cardano and they want to preserve their overall total supply? Many (if not all) of those assets allow for fra…