The highest consumer of Gas units are :

1. Aurora - Aurora is the EVM implementation on NEAR chain. This allows easy porting Ethereum DApps to NEAR. As Aurora is a L2 on NEAR and is also the most popular, its the largest consumer. Aurora has generated almost 210,000 NEAR in transaction fee for the validators.
2. NEAR Crowd is a early faucet for NEAR, allowing users to obtain some NEAR for completion of microtasks
3. Paras is a NFT Marketplace, and given the popularity of NFTs as an entry point or retail users, Paras is a major Guzzler
4. Other major ones are the Bridge and Ref Finance, one of the earliest Liquidity Protocol on NEAR

Interestingly, The top 8 or 9 contracts, don’t change or interchange positions.

• Aurora is still highest Gas Guzzler, making almost 90% of the total Gas consumption on a daily basis
• Post June 11, we saw a tremendous reduction in Gas consumption, before increasing in July 15th.
• This reduction is purely attributed to Aurora
• NearCrowd comes next.
• USN was a popular guzzler until the beginning of July, since when it has not made into Top 10.
• Zomland, a P2E has been popular recently comes 3rd
• Oracle and Bridges are essential for the functioning, comes 4th and 5th respectively
• Ref and Wrapped Near, essential cogs of DeFi on NEAR come 6th and 7th
• Paras the NFT marketplace comes 8th

The trend is pretty much the same over the past 4 months on the weekly:

• Aurora has remained the primary gas guzzler
• Removing Aurora from the equation, removes volatility in the Gas consumption by a great amount
• Near Crowd comes second
• Oracle, Bridge and Paras, who were in the bottom half of the daily top 10, find themselves consistently on the upper half on the weekly
• Its a similar case for DeFi lynchpins wrapped NEAR and Ref Finance
• Zomland has sprung into popularity only over the past two months
• USN was a major guzzler between late April and July beginnings
• Other contracts, mostly just pop in and out of the top 10.

> # Top Guzzlers

Gas is the equivalent of computational power required to process a given transaction. As this processing power is provided by the Validators, the Gas determines the Payment made to the Validator, i.e the transaction fee.

This section plots the top 10 Gas consuming Contracts on NEAR blockchain. The data is for the entire history stored in the Flipside Database. It must be noted that the y-axis is in term of Giga Gas Units (10^9 Gas units) consumed, i.e if a contract’s value is showed a 1 Billion, it means it has consumed 1 Billion Giga Gas Units, i.e 1 Billion Billion Gas Units.

> # Daily Top Guzzlers

Over the past two months, we will look at the top 10 Gas Guzzling contracts each day. This will show if the contracts above are currently still trending with respect to NEAR blockchain community.

> # Weekly Top Guzzlers

Over the past four months, we will look at the top 10 Gas Guzzling contracts each week. This will show if the contracts above are currently still trending with respect to NEAR blockchain community. Weekly timescale will filter out the daily noise, i.e small pumps and dumps in Gas consumption, and gives us a better picture in a longer timeframe.