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		schemescape on March 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Roni... Does “gas-free RPC” mean just a regular non-blockchain endpoint?

michaelmarkell on March 29, 2022 [–]

No, In Ronin for a while there was no ether (they wanted free transactions) so they had a special rpc endpoint that could accept “free” transactions with gas priced at 0. They still process 4/9 of the transactions on ronin even though they introduced a paid gas now — RON

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