Here is the answer: A bit more than Nine Quintillions
nine quintillion two hundred twenty three quadrillion three hundred seventy two trillion thirty six billion eight hundred fifty four million seven hundred seventy five thousand eight hundred and seven to be exact. Or just 9,223,372,036,854,775,807
When I’ve tried to mint really huge amount of tockens with cardano-cli, i’ve got meaningful error message:
unexpected " "
expecting quantity (word64)
expecting word64, but the number exceeds the max bound: MyHugeNumber
word64 can carry 2^64 in Decimal, which is 18446744073709551616, so I’ve tried to issue this amount of tokens and got:
unexpected " "
expecting quantity (word64)
expecting word64, but the number exceeds the max bound: 18446744073709551616
but 18446744073709551615 was just fine. It’s expected - 2^64 is the overflow and 2^64 - 1 is just fine.
But when trying to sign this transaction i’ve got the following:
Command failed: transaction sign Error: matx.raw: TextEnvelope decode error:
DecoderErrorDeserialiseFailure “Shelley TxBody” (DeserialiseFailure 209 “overflow when decoding mint field. min value: -9223372036854775808 max value: 9223372036854775807 got: 18446744073709551615”)
Probably it’s a bug in CLI, it sould not allow to build a raw transaction it can not sign.
I’ve repeated the steps with the 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 tokens to mint and succesfully sign and submit the transaction with the regular fee on 0.2 USD.
It was anticipated, but needs to be highlighted:
Minting fee does not depend on the number of tockens being minted.
I’ve minted 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 tokens which I’ve called ATHOM s. In appreciation of Democritus atomic theory of the universe and a British name ATHOM which means “Success comes easily to you” To the date ATHOM s are the most numerous Native Tockens at Cardano Blockchain.
UP2. I’ve found a bug in Daedalus Flight. For some reason I can sent something like a quntillion of ATHOMs with it. PROOFPIC
Probably it’s only possible to send a 100s time less then the total ATHOMs count. And I see no reason it shouldn’t be possible.
Is there anyone ready to accept One Quadrillion ATHOMs for testing purposes?