# Data & Encoding

## Overview

Everything on Ethereum bottoms out in byte data. Ox represents it with two primitive types —
[`Hex`](/api/Hex) and [`Bytes`](/api/Bytes) — and ships the codecs that move values between them
and the wire: RLP for protocol serialization, Base64/Base58/Bech32m/CBOR for ecosystem interchange,
plus bigint-safe JSON and lossless ether/gwei unit conversion.

```ts twoslash
import { Hex, Value } from 'ox'

const amount = Value.fromEther('1.5')
// @log: 1500000000000000000n

const quantity = Hex.fromNumber(amount)
// @log: '0x14d1120d7b160000'
```

<Cards>
  <Card icon="lucide:binary" title="Base32 Coding" description="Encode and decode raw BIP-173 base32 data." to="/guides/data/base32" />

  <Card icon="lucide:binary" title="Base58 Coding" description="Handle Bitcoin-, IPFS-, and Solana-style identifiers." to="/guides/data/base58" />

  <Card icon="lucide:binary" title="Base64 Coding" description="Encode payloads for data URLs, HTTP, and WebAuthn transport." to="/guides/data/base64" />

  <Card icon="lucide:at-sign" title="Bech32m Coding" description="Encode and verify checksummed, prefixed addresses (BIP-350)." to="/guides/data/bech32m" />

  <Card icon="lucide:package" title="CBOR Coding" description="Round-trip WebAuthn attestation and COSE payloads." to="/guides/data/cbor" />

  <Card icon="lucide:ruler" title="CompactSize Coding" description="Encode and decode Bitcoin wire-format varints." to="/guides/data/compact-size" />

  <Card icon="lucide:coins" title="Format Ether & Gwei Values" description="Parse user input to wei and format bigint values for display." to="/guides/data/value" />

  <Card icon="lucide:braces" title="Serialize JSON Safely" description="Stringify, parse, and canonicalize JSON with bigint support." to="/guides/data/json" />

  <Card icon="lucide:hash" title="Work with Bytes & Hex" description="Instantiate, convert, and manipulate Ox's two primitive data types." to="/guides/data/bytes-hex" />

  <Card icon="lucide:list-tree" title="Work with RLP" description="Encode and decode Recursive Length Prefix data." to="/guides/data/rlp" />
</Cards>