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Generates and returns an estimate of how much gas is necessary to allow the transaction to complete. This method will use 40 Compute Units.
Unichain Mainnet keeps historical state for roughly the last 10,000 blocks, about 2.8 hours at Unichain’s 1-second block time. Requests for an older block return JSON-RPC error -32603 with a message that contains state at block #<number> is pruned.

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Parameters

from - [optional] String of the address the transaction is sent from. to - [optional] String of the address the transaction is directed to. gas - [optional] Integer of the gas provided for the transaction execution. gasPrice - [optional] Integer of the gasPrice used for each paid gas encoded as a hexadecimal. value - [optional] Integer of the value sent with this transaction encoded as a hexadecimal. data - [optional] String of the hash of the method signature and encoded parameters. For more information, see the Contract ABI description in the Solidity documentation.
  1. QUANTITY | TAG - [optional] integer block number, or the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending", see the default block parameter

Returns

String - hex string value representing an integer of the amount of gas units used.