The Power of xDai and WordPress

WP Smart Contracts
2 min readMar 2, 2021

Ethereum gas fees have been rocketing since the price of Ethereum and the hype about cryptocurrencies has increased.

Layer 2 is a solution to scalability and more reasonable fees. Layer 2 are the logical step forward to handle scalability problems. The main idea is to handle transactions off the main Ethereum chain (layer 1).

The volatility of the Ether price, together with network congestion can turn the use of Ethereum very expensive.

Benefits of xDai Chain

  • Cheaper transactions
  • Transaction fees in xDai stable coin, pegged to the US Dollar
  • Single token for transactions and gas fees

xDai Chain and WPSmartContracts

Now you can deploy all Smart Contracts flavors in xDai chain.

You only need to switch your Metamask to xDai to start deploying and interacting with Smart Contracts in xDai chain.

Setting up Metamask for xDai

Setting up Metamask to work with xDai Chain mainnet
  1. Open Metamask, and select “Custom RPC” from the Network Dropdown.
  2. In the “Custom RPC” Settings, add in the xDai network details and click Save:

How to Get xDai Tokens

Learn more

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