Blockchain & Infrastructure
Also: gas fee, transaction fee
Gas
The unit of computation cost for executing operations on Ethereum and EVM-compatible blockchains.
Gas is Ethereum's unit for measuring the computational work required to execute transactions and smart contract operations. Every operation has a fixed gas cost; users set a gas limit and pay a fee in ETH proportional to gas used. After EIP-1559, fees split into a burned base fee and an optional priority tip. High gas prices during network congestion are a barrier to entry and a key driver of user migration to Layer 2s.
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