Gm,

This is a quick guide to help you navigate gas settings while trying to mint any NFT utilising Metamask or any other comparable wallet.

Metamask:

To enable advanced gas controls on Metamask, go to Settings → Advanced → Toggle Advanced Gas Controls to On.

Now, when you press the buy now or mint button, this is the pop-up you’ll usually see:

Click on the ‘edit’ button

There are 3 components to gas:

Gas Limit

Max Priority Fee(Miner Tip)

Max Fee

Do not touch the gas limit column, its set by the function you are calling in the contract. Any change on the gas limit will most likely cause your transaction to fail.

What you see as default in the other 2 columns is Metamask’s estimation of an optimal gas fee in order to get your transaction through.

Max priority fee is the miner tip- I usually set this to 5-10 gwei depending on my estimation of how hyped the mint is.

Max fee: Whatever the base estimate is (in this case 18 gwei), I bump this up between 10-20 gwei depending on the mint again.

So this is what it would look like:

And that’s it, click on save and confirm the transaction and you should be good!

The same settings apply in mobile, here’s a screenshot from Trust App but almost all other wallets should have similar settings:

Hot Tip: a hot software wallet has an advantage here as it doesn’t have to go through the additional step of hardware verification. I would advise you to setup a hot minting wallet for optimal speed.

may the memes be with you