feat: add information about gas fees (#118)

* feat: add information aboout gas fees * docs: expand explanations about gas fees --------- Co-authored-by: Paul Razvan Berg <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/docs/concepts/06-glossary.md b/docs/concepts/06-glossary.md
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ The technical architecture of Ethereum, which many other blockchains have approp
 
 [Foundry][foundry] is the application development toolkit that has been used to develop the Sablier Protocol.
 
+## Gas Fee
+
+[Gas fees](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gas-ethereum.asp) are transaction fees paid to the blockchain validators
+in native tokens such as ETH. Sablier Labs does not take any cut from this.
+
+Gas is paid only when streams are created, canceled, transferred, or withdrawn from. It does not accrue in real-time.
+
 ## Lockup
 
 A term coined by us to refer to the requirement of locking up assets in order to create a stream.

diff --git a/docs/concepts/protocol/07-fees.mdx b/docs/concepts/protocol/07-fees.mdx
@@ -50,3 +50,18 @@ hard-coded limit of 10%.
 The protocol fee is currently set to 0% for all ERC-20 assets.
 
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+## Gas Fees
+
+### Q: What are gas fees?
+
+A: [Gas fees](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gas-ethereum.asp) are transaction fees paid to the blockchain
+validators in native tokens such as ETH. Sablier Labs does not take any cut from this.
+
+### Q: When are gas fees paid?
+
+A: Gas is paid only when streams are created, canceled, transferred, or withdrawn from. It does not accrue in real-time.
+
+### Q: Does Sablier receive any portion of the gas fee?
+
+A: No. 100% of the gas fee goes to the blockchain validators, which are not affiliated with Sablier Labs.