Quick Reference

How Fees Work

EVM transactions use the standard gas fields expected by Ethereum tooling:
Users specify:
  • maxFeePerGas: Maximum total gas price willing to pay
  • maxPriorityFeePerGas: Maximum priority tip
  • gasLimit: Upper bound on gas consumption

Key Differences from Ethereum

c8ntinuum uses EIP-1559-style fee-market parameters. EIP-1559 defines a protocol base fee that adjusts with block fullness, a priority fee, and a maximum fee cap; c8ntinuum uses the same developer-facing fee fields. The base fee is burned. Gas parameter changes are governed through the governance module.

Cosmos SDK Transactions

Non-EVM (Cosmos SDK) transactions specify:
  • GasLimit: Upper bound on execution gas
  • FeeAmount: Maximum fee willing to pay
Gas is consumed during execution. If GasLimit is insufficient, the transaction fails and fees are not refunded.

Cross-Chain Gas

IBC and relayer integrations may introduce integration-specific fees outside normal EVM execution gas. Confirm the target IBC route and relayer policy before building user-facing fee estimates.