Gas Settings Explained

Gas settings decide your minting success rate and cost. Once you grasp the idea, it's not hard.

Two gas modes

🔄 Auto

The app raises gas automatically to match market conditions (looks at pending transactions and sets the priority fee a bit higher).

• When: ample supply or less competitive mints, non-urgent mints.
• Pro: no thinking needed. Con: occasionally a bit pricier than necessary.

🎯 Custom

You set the Max fee and Priority fee directly.

• When: hyped mints, low supply, gas wars, high-profit mints.
• You decide the value — preview cost with the gas calculator first.
• For a slow/guaranteed mint, keep Max moderate and Priority around 0.1 = cheapest mint.

In Nogada, set the defaults for auto tip multiplier and minimum priority (gwei) in Settings → Engine, and adjust per task.

⚠️ Leave Gas Limit blank

• Gas Limit is the "upper bound of work for this transaction." Lowering it does NOT save fees.
• Leave it blank or 0 so the app estimates it safely.
• Setting it too low yourself causes "out of gas" failure — you lose the gas fee. Don't touch it unless you're an expert.

Keep enough balance

When using high custom gas, keep 20–50% more ETH than the estimate in the wallet. Complex contracts can require a larger gas limit and more ETH, and if it's short, the transaction won't go out at all.

Flashbots (advanced)

In Settings → Engine, enabling Flashbots bundles submits transactions directly to block builders instead of the public mempool (anti-frontrun, etc.). Leave it default if unsure.

There's no perfect answer

Low-supply FCFS (100–300 items, done in 1–2 blocks) depends on everyone's gas, RPC speed, internet, and the project's API state — sometimes decided by milliseconds. There's no "input this and you'll always succeed." Build your own instinct with experience.

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