A few weeks ago, Solana’s memecoin mints were back-to-back and the network felt it. Wallets cranked up priority fees just to sneak in swaps, while validators quietly tallied a better month than usual.
Now the conversation is shifting from hot priority fees to the less flashy base fee. The rule that looks small on paper but decides who gets paid, how much gets burned, and whether spam remains cheap.
With on-chain governance finally live, the next vote that matters could be the one that reshapes the base fee itself. Here’s what that would actually change.
Two things happened in July that set the table. First, Solana switched on native on-chain governance, letting the community formally vote on protocol-level changes. Second, validators approved a change to where priority fees go. Put those together, and you get a real path to overhaul the base-fee rule next.
When fee policy stops being theoretical and starts being votable, incentives move fast — and network behavior f
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