diff --git a/src/docs/guides/wallet-dev.md b/src/docs/guides/wallet-dev.md index 2389cd463..2af004657 100644 --- a/src/docs/guides/wallet-dev.md +++ b/src/docs/guides/wallet-dev.md @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ If it takes the user fourteen seconds to approve the transaction in the wallet, The base fee specified in the transaction is not necessarily the base fee that the user will pay, *it is merely an upper limit to that amount*. In most cases, it makes sense to specify a much higher base fee than the current value, to ensure acceptance. + For example, as I'm writing this, ETH is about $2000, and a cent is about 5000 gwei. Assuming 20% of a cent is an acceptable base fee for a transaction, and that the transaction is a big 5,000,000 gas one (at the target block size), this gives us a base fee of 200,000 wei. That would be the value to put in the transaction, even though the L2 base fee (as I'm writing this) is 2,420 wei. @@ -96,4 +97,4 @@ You **MUST** deduct both the L2 execution fee and the L1 data fee or the charged ### Displaying the gas prices -If you want to display the current gas prices, you can use [`eth_gasPrice`](https://docs.alchemy.com/reference/eth-gasprice). \ No newline at end of file +If you want to display the current gas prices, you can use [`eth_gasPrice`](https://docs.alchemy.com/reference/eth-gasprice).