Ethereum Gas Fee Surges to 12-Month High as PEPE Frenzy Grips Market
Users pay the fees, measured in fractions of ether (ETH) known as gwei, to execute transactions on the smart contract blockchain.
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The GAS price is $2.55, a change of -5.12% over the past 24 hours as of 10:42 p.m. The recent price action in GAS left the tokens market capitalization at $35,473,236.92. So far this year, GAS has a change of 31.37%.
Users pay the fees, measured in fractions of ether (ETH) known as gwei, to execute transactions on the smart contract blockchain.
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