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Gas fees are transaction costs paid to validators who process your transaction on blockchain networks. They vary with network congestion: when the network is busy, fees increase; when it’s quiet, they decrease. For institutions processing many transactions, these fees can amount to millions annually.
Institutions can batch non-urgent transactions and execute them during low-fee periods, while keeping urgent transactions in a priority queue that executes immediately regardless of fees. Automated systems handle this without manual intervention. Institutions can also set the speed of each transaction directly in the API: Slow, Market, or Aggressive.
Most institutions either optimise manually (slow and limited to business hours) or rely on tools that monitor gas fees without acting on them, leaving the actual timing and execution decisions to a person. Liminal’s approach combines continuous 24/7 monitoring, intelligent transaction batching, and automatic multi-chain routing into a fully autonomous system. Institutions set governance parameters once, and the system continuously optimises without human intervention, removing the operational overhead that monitoring-only solutions still require.
Yes. Institutions managing assets across Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, and other networks benefit most from optimisation because fee differences between networks are often dramatic. The system compares real-time fees across all connected blockchains and automatically routes transactions to whichever network offers the lowest cost while meeting the institution’s speed and liquidity requirements.
