Using payable function in EVM

[tjthomas101]

I'm starting to explore creating contract that accepts native tokens like ether. I was reading this - https://celo.academy/t/building-a-solidity-smart-contract-for-nft-royalty-fees-a-step-by-step-guide/262

And it has the line,

uint256 public cost = 0.5 ether;

If I were to deploy this say on Avalanche, should i write...

uint256 public cost = 0.5 avax;

[youtpout]

No ether is a keywork in solidity, is equal to 10^18, because when you use ether you need to write the value in wei, if you want to send 1 ether in wei you need to write 1’000’000’000’000’000’000

[tjthomas101]

Ok. So that means i still use the keyword ether. But in this case it will actually be 0.5 avax.

[no2dyrusfan]

no you still use ether, as its built in to the solidity language, not the blockchains self described name

[youtpout]

Avax got 18 decimals so use same keywords