Discussion thread for BRIP-0002: Execution Layer Forked Clients BRIPs/meta/BRIP-0002.md at main · berachain/BRIPs · GitHub
The current gas configuration on Berachain opens us to two key problems:
- Dramatic swings in gas prices over a short period of time results in poor wallet UX.
- Extremely cheap transaction fees incentivize bots to spam the network as the opportunity cost for failing a transaction is very low.
BRIP-0002 proposes direct solutions to the above problems by adjusting the base fee rate of change, such that the maximum per second fluctuation is reduced to the same as Ethereum. It also introduces a minimum base fee of 10 gwei, such that tangible costs exist for bots choosing to spam the chain.
This remains cheaper than other comparable live networks which have in excess of 10 gwei minimum transaction price with similarly priced gas tokens. We propose this value such that active Berachain users feel minimal impact, where common operations such as token swaps and NFT mints will continue to cost a fraction of a cent.
The details of the implementation specification can be found on Github for BRIP-0002