Gas Fees State reliable Theory Audit coming Edit this section section-systems.filecoin_vm.gas_fee Summary State reliable Theory Audit coming Edit this section section-systems.filecoin_vm.gas_fee.summary As is traditionally the case with many blockchains, Gas is a unit of measure of how much storage and/or compute resource an on-chain message operation consumes in order to be executed. At a high level, it works as follows: the message sender specifies the maximum amount they are willing to pay in order for their message to be executed and included in a block.