Original title: "After GasNow shuts down the service, what are the alternatives to Ethereum's Gas price prediction tools? "

GasNow is the most dedicated data service in the Ethereum ecosystem to provide Gas price predictions, covering a variety of tools such as Apps, plug-ins, and APIs, but the team has officially closed the service on October 16. Judging from the timing of the closure, it may be related to domestic regulatory policies.

Since GasNow aggregates the mempool data of Spark Mining Pool, it can provide relatively more accurate results than prediction tools based on historical data. Therefore, GasNow's tools have won unanimous praise from the community, which has also led to many people looking for similar alternatives after the GasNow service is offline.

On the other hand, in addition to the more accurate Gas prediction provided by GasNow, it is also because they provide a variety of tools to meet the needs of different users, including browser plug-ins, desktop plug-ins, mobile apps, APIs, etc. There are few other services There are so many categories of tools available.

I actually prefer to use their API and browser plug-in, because this plug-in can be placed next to the MetaMask wallet plug-in, and users can view the Gas price that can be packaged and traded in real time without clicking GasNow, which can be filled in when using MetaMask to trade. value. The API service is very suitable for integration in other custom script logic. For example, I made a script based on iOS shortcut commands, and click a shortcut button to get the gas price.

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Browser plugin: Blocknative

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The number written is the real-time Gas price of Blocknative

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Mobile app or desktop widget: wallets like Zerion

For the mobile terminal, wallet tools generally have built-in Gas data services (mostly aggregated third-party data), but from the experience point of view, Zerion is one of the few applications that directly provides desktop widgets on iOS. Just add this widget to your desktop and you can check the gas price.

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Web page: ETH Gas Station, Etherscan, OKLink

The function of viewing Gas forecast on the webpage may be the most common, but the experience may not be as good as the above-mentioned plug-ins or application integration.

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API services: ETH Gas Station, Etherscan, Blocknative, etc.

For data-type API services, there are more, both paid and free. The most commonly used of these are ETH Gas Station (https://docs.ethgasstation.info), Etherscan (https://docs.etherscan.io/api-endpoints/gas-tracker) or Blocknative (https://docs.blocknative .com/gas-platform), etc. These data APIs all support the most common HTTP calls, and it is quite easy to call and obtain data through iOS shortcut commands or Python.

But as for the forecasting accuracy of these services, it needs more time to observe.