lib.rs

// This file is part of Substrate.

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//! Low-level types used throughout the Substrate code.

#![warn(missing_docs)]
#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)]

use sp_runtime::{
	generic,
	traits::{BlakeTwo256, IdentifyAccount, Verify},
	MultiSignature, OpaqueExtrinsic,
};

/// An index to a block.
pub type BlockNumber = u32;

/// Alias to 512-bit hash when used in the context of a transaction signature on the chain.
pub type Signature = MultiSignature;

/// Some way of identifying an account on the chain. We intentionally make it equivalent
/// to the public key of our transaction signing scheme.
pub type AccountId = <<Signature as Verify>::Signer as IdentifyAccount>::AccountId;

/// The type for looking up accounts. We don't expect more than 4 billion of them.
pub type AccountIndex = u32;

/// Balance of an account.
pub type Balance = u128;

/// Type used for expressing timestamp.
pub type Moment = u64;

/// Index of a transaction in the chain.
pub type Nonce = u32;

/// A hash of some data used by the chain.
pub type Hash = sp_core::H256;

/// A timestamp: milliseconds since the unix epoch.
/// `u64` is enough to represent a duration of half a billion years, when the
/// time scale is milliseconds.
pub type Timestamp = u64;

/// Digest item type.
pub type DigestItem = generic::DigestItem;
/// Header type.
pub type Header = generic::Header<BlockNumber, BlakeTwo256>;
/// Block type.
pub type Block = generic::Block<Header, OpaqueExtrinsic>;
/// Block ID.
pub type BlockId = generic::BlockId<Block>;