Gas
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
A unit of measurement of the computational effort in conducting transactions or smart contracts on Ethereum blockchain. It is equivalent to 'fuel' - how much fuel (gas) does it take to conduct the requested transaction on Ethereum network.
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