So, we all remember when Ethereum gas fees were super low, right? But as the price of ETH kept climbing, it led to higher transaction fees, causing a lot of anxiety about gas costs. People started looking for alternatives like BNB, and now we see tons of projects moving to the BNB Chain because it's cheaper to use.
But now that BNB's price is skyrocketing, hitting around $920 and inching closer to that $1k mark, I'm curious if this will also drive up BNB's gas fees. Will users start grumbling about the costs again, or do you think they’ll find a way to keep those fees in check?
How will BNB's price hike impact its gas fees?
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cold5tor4geSenior Member
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#2Apr 6, 2019, 06:17 PM
For now the whole situation around the binance chain is still very clean and friendly, this is what make the most sense right now, when you talk about gass fees we should know what causes them, like projects that depends on the Ethereum blockchains are much compared to that of bnb, and from the beginning, Ethereum network have never been as free and less fess like what we have with BNB righ from the beginning.
I don't think so. But when there's a spam attack and that will make the network clogged and in traffic, that's when we see all of these problems occur on the BNB chain. Although it had been stable for so long and hoping that there won't be that much traffic at all that could cause these tremendous fees to be paid whenever we transact with its network. So, as of now there's no problem at all and the network is doing well and that's why it's also one of the lowest fees when sending a stable coin to others.
cipher_pixelSenior Member
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#4Apr 8, 2019, 12:30 PM
The price of BNB may be high, but it will never be as transaction-friendly as Ethereum. Therefore, I don't think this will be a problem. Fees will remain the same and won't increase significantly. Price increases won't affect fees on the BSC network. I know that fees are already very low on the BSC network. Even if the price reaches nearly $1,000, it still has low transaction fees, which is why it's considered a good alternative.
SwiftPixelFull Member
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#5Apr 8, 2019, 06:31 PM
The Binance Smart Chain gas fee, which is measured in Gwei, for the main time it's adjusted automatically to fit a certain amount based on the price of BNB, and it's not something that the network fee is fixed for, which means an increase in the BNB price will affect how much someone will pay per transaction, instead it's when the network is very busy and it has a lot of traffic; if such pushes an increase in the fee, that's where such can even contribute to an increase in the price of BNB and not the price affecting the fee rate.
Yeah this was the cause several upgrades to other chains such as polygon, or even AVA this reduce today a higher cost price of gas fee, as then many were skipping ethereum to other projects that was launched Binance smart Chain. Though is been a while I uses ethereum network to make withdrawal or deposit in any exchange or gambling since I do not really like it that while then gas was turning into something else.
cold5tor4geSenior Member
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#7Apr 9, 2019, 05:00 PM
Those are all the limitations with Ethereum network and for that reason alot of alternative chains came up to act as alternative to Ethereum at that point and that make BNB to learn ahead such that it build on the limitations of Ethereum chains and as well as other chains project like pologon and the rest of them in the industry.
SilentGuruSenior Member
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#8Apr 9, 2019, 10:09 PM
If it's BSC I wouldn't worry. The validators are selected by Binance and they can easily make the the fee low.
I remember doing meme trade on a binance web3 wallet for alpha point with huge fee few days later binance cuts 90% of the fee and it become cheap.
Binance smart chain is centralized so binance can just cut fee with the PoSA consensus mechanism. At least more centralized than other network such as ETH.
Yes you are right and of course they could actually work on their network to make it that accommodative to suits it's user.
Of recently BNB has been making progress preparing to the full altcoin season. And of course people are not that determinant in terms of having patient to allow their investments gets to their best place in price.
BNB's price increase obviously affect the gas price of BSC blockchain as it used BNB to pay the fees. Nevertheless, you shall not feel worry as Binance can scal up the TPS of their blockchain anytime. I guess the fees will always be relatively stable even if each BNB worth thousands. Binance just need to tell their validators to approve the proposal to scal up their blockchain and it's done.
One thing that you should know is that they are different project with different owners and different reasons for creating the project. BNB is an exchange coin while Etherum isn't and for that reason Binance was able to promote his coin by making the network fee very cheap in order to attract more investors to invest and use the network. So far, BNB gas fee has been the cheapest and I applaud them for that.
Etherum community is not working on the project to improve it and make it user friendly because he has already made much profit from this project since in the early days of cryptocurrency. I doubt that the gas fee of BNB will increase and become as high as chasing away people from using the network when the price increases.
SilentGuruSenior Member
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#12Apr 10, 2019, 08:54 AM
I think if BNB get as expensive as ETH then there's potential for the gas to be pretty expensive. Since with ETH even 0.2 gwei already costs $1-2 for a swap.
The good thing is BNB already have L2 working which make them ready even if there's a need for huge scalability increase.
The chain itself is pretty much was made to solve scalability problem at the expensve of decentralization in my opinion.
bull_cobraFull Member
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#13Apr 10, 2019, 02:42 PM
If i am not wrong, miners are the ones who can set the average fee rate in Gui gaz. It's like all other independant blockchains with miners controlling the transaction traffic in exchange for that fee (no block rewards with BSC). It becomes a pattern between all of them, when the demand decrease, the price decrease and miners start accepting the minimum to accumulate more fee value. Once the demand increase, the price increase as well, and miners start choosing the transactions with the highest fee to add to their blocks. This should delays the confirmations for transactions with lowest fees and rise fee rates accordingly.
I think BNB itself can adjust the gas fees isn't it?
So there will be no problem if they reaches $1k in the future. For sure the gas fees will go up, but then again, if the devs can adjust in on the fly then the problem will be gone for good. It's going to be manageable in my opinion.
As this could be one reason why there are a lot of investors who shifted to BNB because of this kind of algorithm as compare to ETH.
If you are using Binance exchange I guess you won't get any issue with fees especially if you are using BNB for trading or do some transfer in their platform.
But if you deal BNB on other platforms maybe you can feel that fees became expensive. Since there are exchange set high withdrawal fees on BNB, you can see the possible fees asked by different exchange here https://withdrawalfees.com/coins/binancecoin
BNB is really doing good and its like there's huge chance that it will hit $1000 this year.
BNB will continue to have low fees, as has been proven. I have not seen any complaints about fees on BNB, and even some local and global exchanges still offer very low fees, making it a solid choice. On the other hand, Ethereum still has the same problem, the higher the price, the higher the cost.
Most of the exchanges charges high but this is not applicable to their exchange Binance as it's charges lower than it does.
Yes you are right, the possibilities of getting that price range and even above is extremely very possible because the reduction of its total supply could boost the price above expected and this has just begun, maybe before this year runs out we could likely see BNB swimming above 1.5k who knows it might get to 2k.
quantumsageFull Member
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#18Apr 11, 2019, 04:25 PM
No matter how high the gas fee rises on BNB, it won't exceed $1--- it will still be below that, and it's even more stable for BNB compared to ETH, where the higher the price, the denser the network, the higher the gas fee.
I'm not really worried about BNB rising and linking it to gas fees, so it will remain relatively cheap.
I'm currently waiting for BNB to reach $1,000.
cold5tor4geSenior Member
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#19Apr 12, 2019, 04:37 AM
I think binance want to solve one problem that have faced traders and users of most chains, and that is why binance made sure the build and ecosystem for their native coin BNB and this have helped to make their chain the most desirable having solved the issues of high fees that mostly come from chains when the market is on a bull momentum, but unlike now, BNB is increasing in price but yet the network fees have remained at it minimal level.
If BNB wants to remain one of the most sorted out coin in the crypto industry, theyd better work on their price not increasing in the phase of others that their prices are quite low and being sorted for most of the time. Just like how newly launched projects are running away from the Ethereum network because of its high fees, they will also run away from the BNB chain while other projects offering lower fees will take over from them. BNB chain is doing well and I dont hope they allow such happen even when their price reaches higher price and reach new all time highs.
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