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Returns transaction base fee per gas and effective priority fee per gas for the requested/supported block range. This method will use 40 Compute Units.

Parameters

  • blockCount - Integer number of blocks in the requested range. Between 1 and 1024 blocks can be requested in a single query. If blocks in the specified block range are not available, then only the fee history for available blocks is returned.
  • newestBlock - String representing the highest number block of the requested range, or one of the string tags latest, earliest, or pending.
  • rewardPercentiles - (optional) A monotonically increasing list of percentile values to sample from each block’s effective priority fees per gas in ascending order, weighted by gas used.

Returns

  • oldestBlock - Lowest number block of the returned range expressed as a hexadecimal number.
  • baseFeePerGas - An array of block base fees per gas, including an extra block value. The extra value is the next block after the newest block in the returned range.
  • gasUsedRatio - An array of block gas used ratios. These are calculated as the ratio of gasUsed and gasLimit.
  • reward - An array of effective priority fee per gas data points from a single block. All zeroes are returned if the block is empty.