Solana Proposes New Fee Structure to Punish Heavy Network Users

Developers of the Solana (SOL) network have proposed a new fee structure that would replace part of the network's flat transaction charge. The draft, called SIMD-0553, aims to price heavier activity more heavily and increase token burning.

The current system charges a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature, with half burned and half paid to the block-producing validator. Under the proposed model, validators would receive a fixed 2,500-lamport inclusion fee, while the network would burn the entire resource fee.

Proponents argue that the existing flat 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.