Asset amount calculation

Glasser

I have been interacting with Stellars API and was just hoping to gain some clarification for when it comes to determining the total amount of a particular asset. For instance if curled the assets endpoint for a particular asset (curl "https://horizon.stellar.org/assets?asset_code=BAT") I will receive an array of records for that asset that contains different issuers and amounts. For this example using BAT as the asset I receive 3 different records that all have different amounts of 1000000.0000000, 10000.0000000, 93515.6050000. My first inclination is that the total amount is the sum of all of those values for that asset.

However when I came across another asset (curl "https://horizon.stellar.org/assets?asset_code=ARG") I received 3 different records that contain different issuers but the exact same amount. Is this just a coincidence or what is the formula for calculating the total amount of that particular asset on Stellar? Thank you for any help or feedback you may have on this topic.

dzham

First,

An asset in Stellar is defined by its issuer and its asset code.

Looking at BAT, you can't be sure they mean the same thing without checking with the issuer what their BAT represents.

For ARG, it might just be as simple as someone testing things, and issuing the same asset from three issuers before they got it right.

In summary, the total amount issued for a particular asset on Stellar, is the listed amount.