#GasFeeImpact
Gas is the fee required to successfully conduct a transaction or execute a contract on the Ethereum blockchain platform. Fees are priced in tiny fractions of the cryptocurrency ether (ETH)—denominations called gwei (10-9 ETH). Gas is used to pay validators for the resources needed to conduct transactions.
The concept of incentives for work paid in fees (gas) was introduced to compensate miners for their work on maintaining and securing the blockchain—in addition to receiving block rewards.
After the proof-of-stake algorithm was rolled out in September 2022, a portion of the gas fee became the reward for staking ETH and participating in validation—the more a user has staked, the more they can earn.