Glossary term

Gas

Definition

A unit measuring computational work on Ethereum and similar networks. The transaction fee equals the gas used multiplied by the gas price.

Example

A simple ETH transfer uses 21,000 gas; for example, at a gas price of 10 gwei the fee would be 210,000 gwei, or 0.00021 ETH.

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