Gas is the fee you pay to submit transactions to the Ethereum network. Whether you’re transferring ETH, sending tokens, or interacting with a smart contract, you owe gas in the form of Ether (ETH), the native currency of the Ethereum network. Think of gas fees as fueling the network. Why do you pay gas? First, …
Welcome back to EGS Garage with Chaz, a journey through the process of building an Ethereum DApp from idea to deployment. This isn’t formal coding advice; it’s an open diary of my experience and what I’ve learned along the way. Smart contracts can be hard – but far from impossible to learn if you’ve got …
Whether you’re new to Ethereum or a hardened veteran, you’ve likely come across the word Gwei before. The most common situation where you’d notice the word gwei is when choosing a gas price for your Ethereum transaction that won’t make you wait or get stuck. And even then, you probably just paid attention to the …
Welcome back to EGS Garage with Chaz, a journey through the process of building an Ethereum DApp from idea to deployment. This isn’t formal coding advice; it’s an open diary of my experience and what I’ve learned along the way. Smart contracts are hard – but far from impossible to learn if you’ve got the …
Help! My Ethereum transaction is stuck We’ve all been there. You’ve been waiting and waiting, but that Ethereum transaction just isn’t going through. A stuck transaction can be especially frustrating when you aren’t sure what to do. What’s worse, one pending transaction can prevent all the rest of your transactions from completing. Don’t punch a …
The answer is: it depends. The time for an Ethereum transaction to complete depends on how much you pay in gas (i.e., transaction fees) and how congested the Ethereum network is. As a refresher, every transaction you submit to the Ethereum blockchain must be accompanied by a fee known as gas. You get to decide …
Welcome back to EGS Garage with Chaz, a journey through the process of building an Ethereum DApp from idea to deployment. This isn’t formal coding advice; it’s an open diary of my experience and what I’ve learned along the way. Smart contracts are hard – but far from impossible to learn if you’ve got the …
Catching up If you read my first post, you may recall that I began the process of creating BridgeBurner back January, when I started laying out the DApp’s initial structure following a Twitter brainstorm session. From then until I began this series in April, I had been coding BridgeBurner behind the scenes. But like with many …
Welcome back to EGS Garage with Chaz If you read the first installment of EGS Garage with Chaz, you know we’re here to create a DApp from scratch. Much like cooking from scratch, you’re going to need a few simple ingredients. To get started programming smart contracts, you need 3 things: the skills, the tools, and a …
An upgrade to Ethereum gas fees? The Ethereum gas fees you’re familiar with may be changing thanks to EIP-1559. This proposal seeks to do away with the old and sometimes frustrating gas fee auction system. As an alternative, EIP-1559 proposes a BASEFEE, which would make the experience of paying for transaction fees so much smoother. …
Prysmatic Labs’ public Proof of Stake testnet is live! You have to hand it to the folks at Prysmatic Labs for working behind the scenes for months and emerging with something truly remarkable. I won’t try to summarize everything covered in Prysmatic Labs’ announcement of the Prysm Ethereum 2.0 Proof of Stake testnet. In fact, …
What is the Ethereum Name Service (ENS)? In short, the Ethereum Name Service (or ENS) is a service that lets you turn your Ethereum address from something like this: 0xA19FCDaD77C1F0fd1… to something humans understand, like this: PayMe.eth. It’s the Ethereum equivalent of IP addresses and DNS domains. ENS launched its original registry in May 2017. The ENS …
