Gnosis Chain Gas Tracker

Gnosis Chain is a proof-of-stake sidechain, not a rollup, and that distinction is the biggest thing separating its fees from the Layer 2 chains elsewhere on this tracker. Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, and the others post batches of transaction data to Ethereum for security, and bill you an L1 data fee for doing it. Gnosis Chain has its own independent set of validators — over 100,000 of them, staking GNO — who reach consensus on their own. There's no data posted to Ethereum and no L1 data fee line item to account for.

That leaves a single fee: an EIP-1559 market, the same base-fee-plus-tip mechanism Ethereum mainnet uses. Every block has a base fee that rises when the block before it was more than half full and falls when it was under, and that base fee is burned rather than paid to a validator. On top of it you can add a priority fee (a tip) to get included faster when the network is busy.

The other distinctive piece is the token you pay in. Gas on Gnosis Chain is billed in xDAI, a token bridged 1:1 from Ethereum's DAI stablecoin. Because xDAI tracks the US dollar, a gas quote here is already in dollar terms — there's no separate step of checking a volatile asset's price to work out what a transaction actually costs.

With no L1 data fee to track, Gnosis Chain's price is driven almost entirely by how full its own blocks are running.

• Block usage vs. the 50% target — The EIP-1559 base fee adjusts block over block based on how full the previous block was relative to its gas limit. Sustained demand above the target pushes the base fee up; quiet stretches let it drift back down.
• 5-second blocks — Gnosis Chain produces a block roughly every 5 seconds, so a burst of activity clears quickly and the base fee rarely stays elevated for long compared to slower networks.
• Activity from chain-native apps — Applications built specifically for Gnosis Chain, such as the Circles basic-income network and Gnosis Pay card settlements, generate transaction volume that's unique to this chain rather than mirrored from Ethereum activity.
• The priority fee you set — Because block space is rarely contested, most wallets default to a minimal tip. Raising it only matters during unusually busy periods, and even then the increase is measured in fractions of a cent.

Most confusion on Gnosis Chain comes from mixing it up with tokens and products that share its name or history.

• GNO is not the gas token — GNO is what validators stake to secure the network and what governance voting uses — it isn't spent on transaction fees. You need xDAI in your wallet to pay gas, even if you're only holding or moving GNO.
• "Gnosis Chain" isn't "Safe" — Safe, the multisig wallet used across Ethereum and its Layer 2s, was originally built by the same team as Gnosis Safe and later span out as an independent product. Fees for using Safe are paid on whatever chain your Safe is deployed to — Gnosis Chain the network is a separate thing from Safe the wallet.
• There's no L1 data fee to look for — If you're used to reading a fee breakdown on a rollup like Arbitrum or Base, expecting a separate Ethereum data-posting cost here, you won't find one — Gnosis Chain doesn't post data to Ethereum, so its entire fee is the L1-style EIP-1559 charge described above.
• Security comes from Gnosis Chain's own validators, not Ethereum's — As a sidechain, transaction finality depends on Gnosis Chain's own validator set reaching consensus, not on Ethereum's. In December 2025, a governance-approved hard fork reversed the effects of a hack that had frozen user funds — a type of intervention a rollup secured directly by Ethereum's consensus wouldn't have available.