Picture this: You're at the gas station, filling up your car with gas before a long road trip. As you watch the meter tick higher and higher, you can't help but wonder why you have to pay for gas.

Well, just like your car needs gas to run, your Ethereum wallet needs gas to make transactions.

In the world of Ethereum, gas is a fee you pay to miners to process your transaction on the network. Every time you want to buy, sell, or trade an asset on the Ethereum network, you have to pay a certain amount of gas to make it happen. This gas fee is usually paid in Ethereum, or ETH for short.

But here's where things get a little more complicated. Gas is measured in Gwei, which is a sub-unit of ETH. And to pay for gas, you need to have some ETH in your wallet. This is where WETH, or wrapped Ether, comes in. WETH is simply a tokenized version of ETH that you can use to pay for gas and other transactions on the Ethereum network.

But there are good news! Since the Ethereum Layer 2 merge in September 2022, gas fees have substantially been decreased. You can think of it as Ethereum used to be like a busy highway with too many cars and not enough space. Well, they recently did some construction work and merged with another blockchain called 'Polygon' to make the road wider and smoother. And now, with more space on the highway, the traffic is moving faster and the gas fees are lower!

So, what about Matic? Matic Network is a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum that helps reduce the gas fees and transaction times on the network. By using Matic, you can perform transactions at a much lower cost than on the Ethereum mainnet. In fact, the gas fees on Matic are so low that they're often measured in fractions of a cent!