Will Vitalik Buterin’s Gas Fee Proposal Make Ethereum More Like Solana?

The Ethereum co-founder is proposing some significant changes to the network’s gas fee structure. Would it make it more like its chief competitor. Ethereum could use a much better system for charging transaction fees from its users, the network's chief architect Vitalik Buterin argued in a widely circulated essay published Thursday.

Buterin's post, which laid out a path toward a more customized and equitable system, immediately garnered reactions from two principal groups: Ethereum users, who expressed their excitement at the prospect of lower fees on the network’s costly mainnet; and Solana users and developers, who noticed that Buterin's proposal sounded an awful lot like the Solana network's own fee model.