Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency symbol or code ticker options. Assigned by liquidity providers and exchanges.

The quantity of a cryptocurrency asset. This is a decimal number with a scale defined for each cryptocurrency by its founders. For example, Bitcoin (BTC) has 8 as its scale, Ethereum (ETH) has 18 as its scale. The PayPal Cryptocurrency platform handles the scale to 8 digits for Bitcoin. including its forks or offshoots, as well as Ethereum.

The quantity of a cryptocurrency asset in the currency's sub units.
Amount is an integer in a string format.
Floating point should be avoided to avoid precision errors. For example:

Bitcoin(BTC) has 8 decimals,

so 1 BTC will be represented as 100000000 (1 followed by 8 zeroes).

Ethereum(ETH) has 18 decimals,

so 1 ETH will be represented as 1000000000000000000 (1 followed by 18 zeroes).

The number of decimal digits supported by this cryptocurrency. For example, for Bitcoin this value is 8 because there are 10^8 satoshis in one Bitcoin and for Ethereum it's 18 since there are 10^18 wei in one Ether.