What is a unit of Solana?

SOL is the native token of Solana that is required to be passed through Solana nodes in the cluster to run a smart contract program on the blockchain or validate the output. The smallest unit of Solana is called a Lamport named after a famous technical influence, Leslie Lamport. A Lamport equals 0.000000001 SOL.

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Why Solana has no max supply?

Solana does not have a fixed max supply of SOL. Instead, what is fixed is the inflation rate YOY . The current total supply is 504,095,110 SOL, with a circulating supply of 296,693,628 SOL as of September 2021 (via Solana). When the Solana network first launched, it had an initial total supply of 500,000,000 SOL.17 Eyl 2021

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