Solana’s Token‑Crushing Plan: Burn 100x More!

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Key Highlights

  • Solana co‑founder Anatoly Yakovenko says, “Sure, I’ll sign the paper, but do you even understand what a burn is?”
  • Burns could jump from a teeny‑tiny 648 SOL a day to something like 64,800 SOL-like a fireworks display for people who don’t care.
  • Goal: improve tokenomics while keeping market makers happy and the network decentralized. As if that’s even possible.

So Anatoly, the guy who basically built the whole thing, has given the thumbs‑up to a proposal that’ll torch a lot more SOL than your average weekend halloween pumpkin. The idea: burn calories-well, tokens-as you transact. No one really explains why you’d want to do that, but it apparently feels better than the current one‑shivers‑each‑day burn.

The whiteboard, created by @cavemanloverboy, suggests a neat little formula: a resource‑based base fee that vanishes into the ether. Imagine every transaction turns into a tiny little bonfire-except the fire happens when your phone’s battery dies. Great, kids.

Right now, every day Solana kisses its 648‑SOL soft pillow. The proposal claims that’s basically nothing compared to the huge mango of benefits the network could gain-so in other words, we’re all being paid in peanuts while the big guys get the sweet ones.

Yakovenko reposted it on X, because what else would a founder do besides throw papers into the void? Naturally, the community gasped, then did that post‑war pick‑up line about, “Wow, they actually care,” and everyone started calculating decimals.

Proposal’s Resource‑Based Fee Burn

Envelope: for every cost unit a transaction eats, pay 0.1 lamport that gets burned. The message is straightforward-if you LAG, you burn. If you play nice, you ambush yourself. It’s like “move your way up” but with fire.

They say we can’t just bump up the base fee because that’d crush retail folks with a premium crush, while validators and market‑makers would drown. So, let’s just target the heavy hitters-those big transactions that gulp resources like a college kid who skipped breakfast.

Bursting the Burn, 100x

The plan is that between 50 and 300 million cost units get processed each block. If they actually roll this out, we’re looking at burning ~10,800-64,800 SOL a day. That’s a century pay‑check for the burning department. Realistically, they estimate more like 21,600 SOL-still a decent amount, but far below the 60,000‑SOL inflation churn.

Solana Foundation’s New Love Affair

Meanwhile, the Solana Foundation teamed up with AirAsia MOVE and Intebix from Kazakhstan to toss a stablecoin, KZTE (Evo), onto the blockchain. Basically, a partnership that sounds like a bored billionaire’s idea for a new Tesla… but with Kazakhstani bucks.

Community Drama Lands on Central Stage

Everyone’s debating how to balance issuance and deflation, because it turns out we can’t just pump money into an economy and hope people will figure out what to do with it. And like any decent network, Solana is trying to keep swipe‑fast transactions while the talk of burning tokens is louder than a toddler in a choir.

There’s been no vote yet-because who needs a formal vote when you’ve got a founder who’ll sign a paper and it’s everywhere now, right? The conversation has exploded, and people are all over it-because nothing says “fun” quite like arguing about ledger entries.

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2026-05-30 21:25