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What is Gwei? Ethereum gas explained

Eric Lastname
Geek Culture
Published in
4 min readJul 16, 2021

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As Ethereum moves more mainstream, its important to understand a bit more of how it works under the hood. Lets explore tokens, Gwei, and Ethereum!

Put simply. 1 Gwei is 0.000000001 Ether (1 billionth of an Ether) that is used to measure the cost of transactions on the Ethereum network.

What are transaction costs?

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Eric Lastname
Geek Culture

Software Developer, AWS. Natural Language Processing and Crypto.