Wallet Ops

Gas cost is the most predictable drag on a small wallet. If I do not know the typical fee range for a swap, approve, or deposit, I cannot tell whether I am overpaying, or whether the chain is simply expensive that day. This post is my short, repeatable process for building a gas baseline from real receipts and using EIP-1559 math to interpret those receipts.

Block explorers are the fastest way I know to understand how a wallet really behaves. Before I move any funds, I map a wallet’s activity to see which contracts it touches, which tokens it moves, and how much gas it burns per workflow. This post covers the exact explorer tabs I use, how I interpret traces, and a small Python helper for normalizing CSV exports so I can compare activity across chains.