Zcash Floats Dynamic Fee Plan to Ensure Users Won't Be Priced Out

Source: CryptoNewsNet Original Title: Zcash Floats Dynamic Fee Plan to Ensure Users Won’t Be Priced Out Original Link: A key Zcash developer has published the first detailed blueprint for a dynamic fee market, opening a community discussion about how the decade-old network should price transactions as ZEC’s price, user activity and institutional interest climb.

The Monday proposal, released by Shielded Labs, lays out a shift away from Zcash’s historically static fee model — originally 10,000 ‘zatoshi,’ later cut to 1,000 — which worked during low demand but eventually contributed to “sandblasting” spam episodes that clogged wallets and congested the chain.

An earlier ZIP-317 proposal’s move to action-based accounting fixed the abuse vector, but retained predictable, low fees that don’t adjust to usage.

Action-based accounting treated every Zcash transaction component — such as spends, outputs, JoinSplits, Orchard actions — as a single uniform “action,” letting fees scale with activity rather than byte size.