the chain vs you
1 · validator fees exact
2 · priority fees + tips exact
3 · trading fees exact + est
4 · damages impact · mev
most expensive transactions
| tx | when | what | fees | damage | total |
|---|
stream
Solana is cheap for agents. It is expensive for humans.
Bucket 1 is what Solana charged. Buckets 2, 3, 4 are what the human did to themselves: tips paid to jump a queue that wasn't there, protocol cuts, price impact from market-buying thin pools, and getting sandwiched. An agent thinks rationally: it pays bucket 1 and almost nothing else. On this wallet the chain asked for cents; the human paid the rest.
That's the whole argument for openzoo.fun staying on Solana. Agents run thousands of transactions a day, and Solana's per-signature fee is fixed, tiny, and doesn't spike with demand. Per @Effectzorz, Robinhood Chain took in $4.45M of gas in one day, averaging 33¢ per transaction with peaks at $3.40; an agent doing 10,000 transactions a day pays about $3,300 there on a quiet day and $34,000 on a busy one, against roughly $26 on Solana. Fees there went 82x in 11 days on a 36% volume increase. Our agents' cost curve doesn't do that.
| 10,000 tx / day agent | quiet day | busy day |
|---|---|---|
| Solana (base fee) | ~$26 | ~$26 |
| Robinhood Chain (per the post) | $3,300 | $34,000 |
The numbers on this page are exact where labeled exact. The chain's cut is the smallest number on it. Every time. Built by openzoo.fun.