MetaMask feature update: Gas Station

Gas fees are crypto’s version of credit card transaction fees—a small amount that you pay when you transact or execute a contract on Ethereum or other networks. Gas fees keep the network running. They can also make using crypto clunky, time-consuming, and costly. In the before times, if you didn't have enough ETH to cover your gas fees, you couldn’t move forward with your transaction. Instead, you’d need to on-ramp additional ETH in order to continue. But no more. 

Running out of gas when swapping is now a thing of the past thanks to our newly launched Gas Station feature, aka gas-included Swaps. Our Swaps include network fees in the quotes you receive. And, you aren’t limited to a specific liquidity source for your Swaps, meaning we will still compare prices across the same wide variety of providers as we do today. MetaMask Swaps aggregate data from decentralized exchange aggregators, market makers, and DEXs, to ensure you receive competitive quotes with the lowest network fees.

Gas Station is now available on MetaMask Extension via Ethereum mainnet, with mobile release on the horizon. Gas-included swaps are available when you enable Smart Transactions.

Note: Swaps value must be sufficient to also cover the cost of gas, and include the following assets: USDT, USDC, DAI, ETH, wETH, wBTC, wstETH, wSOL. 

Get started with gas-included Swaps in MetaMask browser extension and in MetaMask mobile app. Looking for more? Dive into our recent updates here.