Token decimals converter: raw units to balance

Why a balance reads 1000000 instead of 1

Token contracts have no decimal type. A balance is stored as an integer, and the contract publishes a decimals value saying how many of those integer units make one whole token. USDC commonly uses six decimals, so one USDC is stored as 1000000. Many other tokens use eighteen, matching ether.

This trips people up when reading a block explorer, checking a contract call, or comparing a raw log value against a wallet balance. The number is not wrong; it is the same amount at a different scale.

Confirm the decimals rather than assuming

Eighteen is common but not universal, and assuming it for a six-decimal token misreads a balance by a factor of a trillion. Read the decimals value from the token contract on the network you are actually using — the same token on another network is a separate deployment.

This tool converts a number you supply. It does not read a contract, fetch a balance or confirm that a token is legitimate.