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Solana proposes resource-based fees that burn more SOL

The proposal would burn resource fees rather than pay validators and, if approved, it targets high-failure arbitrage activity that consumed 929 million compute units in 30 days.

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Cointelegraph reports Solana is preparing a fee overhaul that would tie transaction charges more closely to the computing resources each transaction requests, while increasing the network’s SOL burn rate in stages.

Under Solana Improvement Document SIMD-0553, resource fees would be burned instead of going to validators, reducing SOL supply, while simpler activity would cost less and resource-heavy transactions would cost more.

The article says SIMD-0553 entered Solana’s onchain governance process in early August and cleared an initial support phase on August 4. It is currently in a support and discussion phase typically lasting seven epochs, roughly two weeks.

Cointelegraph also notes the proposal is intended to push app developers to optimize resource use by making inefficient transactions more expensive, with particular focus on computationally wasteful arbitrage. The outlet cites an example from the past 30 days, where five traders with the highest failure rates submitted 11.5 million transactions that consumed 929 million compute units across 2,477 trades.

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