Polygon gas station

Polygon gas station aims to help dApp developers with gas price recommendations, so that they can use it before sending transaction off to the Polygon network.

We received a lot of requests from dApp developers for building a gas price recommendation service. So we took some inspiration from Eth Gas Station and built one.

Polygon gas station has been deployed both on the Polygon mainnet & Mumbai testnet. It queries the RPC for eth_feeHistory and fetches the 10^th, 25^th, and 50^th percentiles of priority fees for transactions in each of the last 15 blocks. The average value of the 10^th, 25^th, and 50^th percentiles become the safeLow, standard, and fast fee predictions.

Important

On Polygon PoS mainnet, it is mandatory to pass a minimum priority fees of 30 gwei.

Usage¶

Mumbai¶

For getting gas price recommendation from this oracle (Polygon Mumbai), send a GET request to https://gasstation-testnet.polygon.technology/v2.

cURL¶

curl https://gasstation-testnet.polygon.technology/v2

JavaScript¶

fetch('https://gasstation-testnet.polygon.technology/v2')
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))

Python¶

import requests
requests.get('https://gasstation-testnet.polygon.technology/v2').json()

Mainnet¶

For getting a gas price recommendation from this oracle (Polygon Mainnet), send a GET request to the Polygon Gas Station V2 to get the gas fee estimates. Polygon Gas Station V2 Endpoint: https://gasstation.polygon.technology/v2.

cURL¶

curl https://gasstation.polygon.technology/v2

JavaScript¶

fetch('https://gasstation.polygon.technology/v2')
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))

Python¶

import requests
requests.get('https://gasstation.polygon.technology/v2').json()

Interpretation¶

An example JSON response will look like this:

{
  "safeLow": {
    "maxPriorityFee":30.7611840636,
    "maxFee":30.7611840796
    },
  "standard": {
    "maxPriorityFee":32.146027800733336,
    "maxFee":32.14602781673334
    },
  "fast": {
    "maxPriorityFee":33.284344224133335,
    "maxFee":33.284344240133336
    },
  "estimatedBaseFee":1.6e-8,
  "blockTime":6,
  "blockNumber":24962816
}

safelow, standard, fast, estimatedBaseFee are gas prices in GWei. You can use these prices before sending transaction off to Polygon, depending upon your needs.
blockNumber tells what was latest block mined when recommendation was made.
blockTime, in second, gives average block time of the network.
On Polygon PoS mainnet, it is mandatory to pass a minimum priority fees of 30 gwei.

Last update: January 17, 2024

Authors: avenbreaks