Get current gas prices for EVM blockchains. Returns low, medium, and high gas estimates in gwei. Supports Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, Optimism, and Avalanche.
AI agents call getGasPrices to retrieve information from Boosty MCP DeFi Platform without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and returns current gas price data without modifying any state, executing transactions, or triggering operations. It is a simple read/query operation that provides market information to inform decisions, similar to a price feed API. Despite being part of a DeFi platform with high-risk sibling tools, this specific tool itself has no capability to execute trades, move funds, or modify data.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'getGasPrices' and description states it 'Get current gas prices for EVM blockchains. Returns low, medium, and high gas estimates in gwei.' The action is purely informational retrieval with no side effects.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access getGasPrices gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Boosty MCP DeFi Platform, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for getGasPrices:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"getGasPrices": {}
}
}getGasPrices is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get current gas prices for EVM blockchains. Returns low, medium, and high gas estimates in gwei. Supports Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, Optimism, and Avalanche. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Boosty MCP DeFi Platform MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Boosty MCP DeFi Platform MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getGasPrices: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Boosty MCP DeFi Platform. Nothing to install.
getGasPrices is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the getGasPrices rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for getGasPrices. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
getGasPrices is provided by the Boosty MCP DeFi Platform MCP server (nirholas/boosty). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Boosty MCP DeFi Platform, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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