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eth_gasPrice

Returns the current price per gas in wei on Optimism Layer 2.

Parameters

None. This method takes no parameters.

Implementation Examples

curl -X POST https://api-optimism-mainnet-archive.n.dwellir.com/YOUR_API_KEY \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "eth_gasPrice",
"params": [],
"id": 1
}'

Response Example

{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"result": "0x1dcd6500"
}

This represents approximately 0.5 gwei, much lower than Ethereum mainnet.


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