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Solana
Lamport
Smallest SOL unit: 1 SOL = 1,000,000,000 lamports
What is Lamport?
Solana's analog to Bitcoin's satoshi. Named after Leslie Lamport (distributed systems pioneer). 10^-9 SOL. All on-chain balances/fees displayed in lamports at the protocol level.
Context anchor
Like satoshis on Bitcoin or wei/gwei on Ethereum.