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description: EVM Network Native Currency Data Model Documentation
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# Native Currency Model

### Name

{% hint style="info" %}
**description:** alphabetical official human readable name

**type:** string - required
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
**requirements**

* **format:** more than 0 characters & less than 21
* **standard:** official name to identify EVM network native currency
{% endhint %}

### Symbol

{% hint style="info" %}
**description:** official EVM network native currency symbol

**type:** string - required
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
**requirements**

* **format:** more than 0 characters & less than 5 & uppercase
* **standard:** official symbol to identify EVM network native currency
{% endhint %}

### Unit Symbol

{% hint style="info" %}
**description:** official EVM network native currency smallest unit symbol

**type:** string - required
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
**requirements**

* **format:** more than 0 characters & less than 7
* **standard:** official symbol to identify EVM network native currency smallest unit - if not defined by the EVM network project, it is defined as the native currency symbol prefixed by the [order of magnitude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude) prefix according to the decimals
{% endhint %}

### Decimals

{% hint style="info" %}
**description:** official EVM native currency number of decimal places

**type:** number - required
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
**requirements**

* **format:** natural integer
* **standard:** official number of decimal places associated with the EVM network
{% endhint %}
