For those who are using the faucet funds as intended, you only have a limited amount of ETH to test with, and current (March 4, 2025) transaction prices can cost more than the size of the drip.
Please keep track of the costs to do transactions or you may not have enough ETH to complete an upload.
Here is a link to a price chart, look at the month view. Unfortunately I don’t know of a way to predict the upload transaction fee from the gas fees, but we do understand that the gas limit option (default .02GWei) is per chunk/per replication, so a minimum of 12 transactions, which consumes about 1 Million units of gas per public upload.
Here is the reason for this post.
The faucet currently contributes 5K GigaANT and 50K GigaWei/(50 MicroETH) to your wallet, which was intended to allow up to three transactions.
I’ll continue to monitor the gas fees and will consider adjusting the drip sizes if the prices stay this elevated. In the meantime, you can help protect your ETH by lowering the default gas (for example from .02Gwei to .01Gwei, which you can do with the ant cli tool using the --max-fee-per-gas option. .01Gwei is 10 million units, so --max-fee-per-gas 10000000)