Glossary
Lamport
Also written or said as: lamports
The smallest unit of SOL: one billionth of a SOL.
1 SOL is 1,000,000,000 lamports, named after the computer scientist Leslie Lamport. Fees are counted in lamports: Solana's base fee is 5,000 lamports per signature, which is 0.000005 SOL.
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