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Solana Prices Signatures and Nothing Else. SIMD-0553 Prices Everything.
Compute on Solana has been free at the margin since genesis. SIMD-0553 ends that: a resource fee priced on requested cost units, burned in full, merged July 20 and landing in 4.3. Votes get cheaper, waste gets expensive, and the burn grows about 13x. Our full analysis, including modeling nobody else has published on how it stacks with SIMD-0550.
Jul 20, 2026

