Solana(SOL) developers have proposed replacing part of the network’s flat transaction charge with a resource-based fee designed to price heavier activity and increase token burning. Key Point
Solana(SOL) developers have proposed replacing part of the network’s flat transaction charge with a resource-based fee designed to price heavier activity and increase token burning.
- Solana’s current 5,000-lamport signature fee remains split equally between burning and validator rewards.
- Draft SIMD-0553 would introduce a 2,500-lamport inclusion fee for validators and a separate resource fee that is fully burned.
- The proposed model could reduce costs for light transactions while sharply increasing fees for resource-heavy activity.
Solana currently charges a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature, with half burned and half paid to the block-producing validator. Priority fees are separate, and validators receive all of them under SIMD-0096.
The new design appears in draft SIMD-0553, which grew from a community discussion opened in May. It would replace the burned half of the flat signature fee with a charge based on requested compute, account data, write locks and other scheduler costs.
Under the proposal, validators would receive a fixed 2,500-lamport inclusion fee, while the network would burn the entire resource fee. Three planned stages would price requested cost units at 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 lamports, although the draft has not been activated.
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The proposal’s authors argue that the existing fee does not reflect the work each transaction imposes on the network. A simple operation and a compute-heavy swap can pay the same base charge, leaving some demanding transactions relatively underpriced.
Their May network analysis estimated that the staged resource fees could burn about 1,500 to 9,000 SOL daily, compared with roughly 648 SOL under the current signature-fee burn.
Actual totals would depend on activity, requested resources and the final rate selected.
User costs would vary widely. The draft estimates that an optimized vote transaction could become 12.3% cheaper, while one zero-priority swap examined by the authors could cost 3,150% more because its requested resources would determine the new fee.
The change would extend Solana’s broader move toward explicit fee incentives. SIMD-0096 redirected all priority fees to validators, while SIMD-0553 would preserve that revenue and use a separate burn mechanism to make baseline costs reflect network demand.
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