Every onchain transaction needs to be priced, but the gas markets today are opaque and inefficient. In the past year, onchain actors spent more than $5 billion on gas, and as much as 20% of global fee spend may be wasted due to poor pricing signals. That's on the order of $1 billion in wasted fees. 

Today, we are launching a simple new onchain game called Capture the Gap to help the community better understand gas market dynamics and enable broad participation in our mission to provide best-in-class decentralized gas infrastructure. With Capture the Gap, technical, and non-technical Web3 users alike can earn onchain points by pushing the latest gas data and improving onchain gas estimates. 

Frequent gas oracle updates mean wallets, rollups, bridges, and even autonomous agents relying on Gas Network will operate on fresher data provided by a decentralized ecosystem of incentivized gas agents, competing to provide the best estimates across all networks. Increasing accessibility of onchain gas estimates for everyone!

The objective of the game is to earn points by 'capturing the gap' between the current onchain gas oracle values and their actual real-time values. Each gap consists of two factors: the time since the oracle was last updated and the gas price variation. The longer the time since the last update, and the more that gas prices have changed since then, the more points you'll earn. 

The game exists at the intersection of onchain oracles and gas markets.

To start, the game will be live on Ethereum mainnet and Base – with more oracle chains to be added in the weeks ahead. Be sure to follow @gasdotnetwork on X to learn when the game is expanded.

The gas price feeds available via Capture the Gap are Arbitrum One, Base, Ethereum, Linea, Optimism, and Unichain. 

Figure 1: Gas Price data to Oracle Chain.  Select the gas price data (estimates) on the left side and the Oracle chain you want to update on the right side. 

Figure 2: Rewards for capturing the gap – The longer an oracle sits idle and the more the gas price has moved, the wider the gap and the higher the potential score.

Capture the Gap is another step in our wider journey towards transparent gas markets, optimal gas pricing, and seamless UX for all.

 Ready to play?  👉 Go hands on at https://game.gas.network

Gas Network is actively developing additional infrastructure to take us closer to our goal of gas being decentralized, transparent, efficient, and abstracted for everyday users.

We are building towards autonomous gas sponsorship via ERC-7702, permissionless gas price derivatives and block space futures markets, all aiming to deliver a universally seamless transaction-fee UX for mass adoption.

Capture the Gap is another step on our shared journey towards fully protocolized and community governed universal gas infrastructure. 

Join us! Start by playing the game and earning points. Then follow us to get the latest on Capture the Gap and the new capabilities we are bringing to the community.