Create a gas price strategy that's closer to ethgasstation

raiden/network/rpc/middleware.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import functools
 
 from cachetools import LRUCache
+from web3.gas_strategies.time_based import construct_time_based_gas_price_strategy
 from web3.middleware.cache import construct_simple_cache_middleware
 from web3.types import RPCEndpoint
 
@@ -12,3 +13,7 @@
     cache_class=functools.partial(LRUCache, 150),  # type: ignore
     rpc_whitelist=BLOCK_HASH_CACHE_RPC_WHITELIST,
 )
+
+faster_gas_price_strategy = construct_time_based_gas_price_strategy(
+    max_wait_seconds=15, sample_size=120, probability=99
+)

raiden/utils/cli.py

@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@
 from click._compat import term_len
 from click.formatting import iter_rows, measure_table, wrap_text
 from pytoml import TomlError, load
-from web3.gas_strategies.time_based import fast_gas_price_strategy, medium_gas_price_strategy
+from web3.gas_strategies.time_based import fast_gas_price_strategy
 
 from raiden.exceptions import ConfigurationError, InvalidChecksummedAddress
+from raiden.network.rpc.middleware import faster_gas_price_strategy
 from raiden.utils.formatting import address_checksum_and_decode
 from raiden_contracts.constants import CHAINNAME_TO_ID
 
@@ -302,9 +303,9 @@ def fixed_gas_price_strategy(_web3, _transaction_params):
         else:
             gas_price_string = super().convert(value, param, ctx)
             if gas_price_string == "fast":
-                return fast_gas_price_strategy
+                return faster_gas_price_strategy
             else:
-                return medium_gas_price_strategy
+                return fast_gas_price_strategy
 
 
 class MatrixServerType(click.Choice):