# Gas used Methodology

## Overview

Gas used measures the total gas consumed by an application. It reflects how much users are willing to incur transaction costs when using the application.

Gas used

Y2K Finance

Users deposited into Earthquake vaults for a market epoch, and the outcome depended on whether a depeg event was triggered.

Y2K Finance published the Earthquake contracts on Arbitrum: a vault factory, vaults and a controller that could trigger a depeg event for a market epoch or end the epoch without one. Its GitHub also holds a Carousel vault variant, a self-insured vault fork and cross-chain components.

Y2K Finance

Maintenance

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Gas used

Competitive landscape