Ethereum Gas wars happen when there is lots of competition for a highly anticipated mint, and the mint is for ‘’first come first serve’’. You want to be the fastest to mint or your transaction will fail. Sometimes it’s better to just not participate in a mint… But if you really want that NFT read on.

WARNING THIS WILL COST YOU MONIES, and YOU MIGHT STILL LOSE THE GAS WAR. NO REFUNDS, NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE

The Ethereum blockchain is actually pretty slow, there are a few ways of getting ahead. Some ways are accessible to you, others are not (MEV bribes, more on this in another post).

First do understand how gas works in Gas fees on Ethereum and how to Minting from contract on Ethereum.

It’s not a race on who’s fastest, but who pays the right price at the right moment

1. As soon as the contract is live, or you can mint, send the transaction to Metamask

2. You will need to adjust the fees by clicking EDIT in metamask

OR Site Suggested, then advanced

3. You will arrive at a prompt where you will have to adjust the Max Base Fee and the Priority Fee. Never touch the gas limit

4. This is the tricky part, go too high and you overpay, too low and your transaction will fail. We use https://www.blocknative.com/gas-estimator

5. By inputting the amount of GWEI with highest probability (here it’s 38 gwei for 99% chance of going through), your odds that your transaction goes through are highly likely. Put in the same amount in Max base fee and Priority Fee.
6. Save and confirm the transaction, you will see how it will all cost you in the estimator

Your transaction should go through in seconds (faster than on Terra Network), if not, pray.

As always not financial advice, and adjust at your own risk

What is Gas ‘’blasting’’? If you’re minting something VERY hyped, we recommend going 15-30% over the highest probability on the Gast estimator. This is what is referred to as blasting, since you’re essentially feeding the miners and burning lots of Ethereum.