How is Solana so cheap AND fast? What sorcery is at play with Solana's fee markets, and what still needs to be fixed. We brought on two of the world's best experts on this topic, Jon Charb and Zen Llama, to dive into the world of Solana fee markets and how they differ from ETH + L2s. We also discuss the implications of fees on validator economics and value accrual to the $SOL token. A very insightful, albeit technical, topic.

- - Time Stamps (0:00) - Eth’s journey to EIP 1559 (7:43) - Running validators on Eth vs Sol (19:12) - Mempools and block production (28:00) - Do local fee markets work as advertised? (33:18) - Solana’s fee model (1:03:06) - Comparing SVM L2s to Solana - - Podcast Resources Follow Sal: https://twitter.com/salxyz Follow Dave: https://twitter.com/SolBeachBum Follow Unlayered: https://twitter.com/UnlayeredPod Subscribe on Spotify, Apple, or Google: https://unlayered.io/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UnlayeredPod - - Episode Resources Follow ZenLlama : https://twitter.com/Zen_Llama Follow MetaDAO : https://twitter.com/Jon_Charb