Question 1

What does the QRL gas distribution chart show?

Accepted Answer

It groups each day's transactions into buckets by how much EVM gas they consumed and stacks the counts, so you can see the composition of activity rather than just the total. A tall low-gas band means the day was mostly simple transfers; a growing high-gas band means heavier smart-contract usage.

Question 2

Why does each QRL transaction use a different amount of gas?

Accepted Answer

Gas measures the EVM computation a transaction performs. A plain value transfer does the minimum work and costs a fixed 21,000 gas, while a QRC-20 token transfer, a contract call, or a contract deployment each run more opcodes and storage writes and so consume more. The chart buckets transactions by the actual gas used, read from each transaction's receipt.

Question 3

How are the gas buckets defined?

Accepted Answer

Buckets are fixed ranges of gas used per transaction, from the 21,000-gas floor of a plain value transfer up through the larger amounts that contract calls and deployments require. Each transaction falls into exactly one bucket based on its actual gas used, and the chart counts how many transactions landed in each bucket per day.

Question 4

How much gas does each type of transaction use?

Accepted Answer

A plain QRL value transfer sits at the 21,000-gas floor. QRC-20 token transfers usually land in the 21k–50k band, ordinary contract calls in the 50k–250k range, and contract deployments or complex multi-step calls climb into the hundreds of thousands and beyond. These are typical ranges, not fixed prices — actual gas depends on the opcodes and storage a transaction touches.

Question 5

What is the difference between gas used and gas limit?

Accepted Answer

Gas limit is the maximum a sender allows a transaction to spend; gas used is how much it actually consumed once executed. This chart buckets transactions by gas used — the real workload — not the limit. Multiplying gas used by the effective gas price gives the fee paid, which feeds the fee percentiles and base-fee burn charts.

Question 6

How is this different from daily gas used?

Accepted Answer

Daily gas used is a single total line — the sum of all gas consumed that day. Gas distribution instead shows the breakdown: the same total can come from many cheap transfers or a few expensive contract calls, and only the distribution tells the two apart.

Question 7

Why is there no gas distribution for the Proof-of-Work chain?

Accepted Answer

Gas is an EVM concept, and only QRL 2.0 (the Proof-of-Stake chain) runs the EVM. The original Proof-of-Work chain has fixed transaction subtypes priced with a flat fee in shor rather than metered gas, so there is nothing to bucket — the chart carries a “QRL 2.0 only” badge.

QRL Gas Distribution

Gas Distribution

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QRL Gas Distribution

Gas Distribution

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