TechFlow News, June 1: According to the GitHub Solana Improvement Documents (SIMD) discussion forum, developer cavemanloverboy proposed enhancing the SOL token economics through a resource-consumption-based base fee burn mechanism. The proposal suggests charging a base fee of 0.1 lamport per cost unit for each transaction, with the entire fee burned. Currently, the network burns only approximately 648 SOL per day in base fees—negligible compared to the daily inflation rate of roughly 60,000 SOL.
Based on community benchmarking data, implementing this mechanism is projected to increase daily burn volume by approximately 1,500–1,800 SOL. Its impact on market makers’ fees would be around 3–5%, while its effect on average users’ transaction costs would be comparatively larger—increasing by over 600% in some scenarios. The proposal explicitly states that this mechanism can only be activated after the Alpenglow consensus upgrade and remains under community discussion at present.
