Gas

Ethereum

...amental building blocks—accounts, transactions, a Turing-complete language, and gas-metered execution—that developers can combine to create whatever applications t...

Ethereum Accounts

... medium of value transfer and the fundamental unit for paying transaction fees (gas). Unlike Bitcoin's UTXO model where value is distributed across multiple unspen...

Messages and Transactions

...actions, validate them, execute them, and include them in blocks, receiving the gas fees as compensation. Messages are conceptually similar to transactions but ar...

Ethereum State Transition Function

...ed from the sender's account, the sender's nonce is incremented, and an initial gas counter is set to STARTGAS minus a per-byte fee for the transaction data. Next...

Code Execution

...g-term state across transactions. These storage types are priced differently in gas—stack and memory operations are cheap, while storage operations are expensive t...

Miscellanea And Concerns

... bad luck with network propagation. The fee system is based on the concept of "gas," where every computational operation has a fixed gas cost. For example, a mult...

Technology

...ches, and feature additions -- such as support for new compliance mechanisms or gas optimizations -- without requiring users to migrate to a new token address. Thi...