diff --git a/CGPs/cgp-0145.md b/CGPs/cgp-0145.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..74ea27e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/CGPs/cgp-0145.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +cgp: 145 +title: Increase minimum gas threshold to 25000000000 gwei +date-created: 2024-08-06 +author: Martín Volpe (@martinvol) +status: DRAFT +discussions-to: +governance-proposal-id: +date-executed: +--- + +### Proposal Overview + +We propose to increase gas_price_minimum_(lower_bound) so that the gas of a simple ERC20 transaction, paid in stablecoins, costs around 0.1 cents or USD 0.001. Note that transactions paid in stablecoins use slightly more gas than standard ERC20 transactions. + +This has previously been attempted with [CGP 66](https://github.com/celo-org/governance/blob/277ae3cb52e8bbb0e7f74c819b9b09f738f4bbd0/CGPs/cgp-0066.md), but as the value of CELO has shifted, as well as how much gas is needed to a cUSD transfer changed, it is required to update the parameters. The option to pay for gas with USDC and USDT has been added since then as well. + +Definitions of terms used and an overall explanation of the setup can be found in [CGP 66](https://github.com/celo-org/governance/blob/277ae3cb52e8bbb0e7f74c819b9b09f738f4bbd0/CGPs/cgp-0066.md). + +Please note: +* This increase only impacts the base fee, meaning that the validator rewards from gas remain unaltered. +* We are confident this increase addresses the issues we discuss under _Rationale_, while at the same time the proposed fees are so low that they should not interfere with most use of the blockchain. + +### Rationale + +This proposal builds on the rationale of [CGP 66](TBD), where the effort was to keep gas cost for cUSD at $0.01 for a transfer paid for cUSD itself. Since then, it's been made possible to pay gas with USDC and USDT and the total cost for a tx has reduced considerably. These are gas costs of transfers of those tokens on mainnet at the time of writing: + +cUSD +Example tx hash: 0x485e1aaab931ff206dbdd3994ae76a2e0f890f6d91ddf1405c76549b41ca32e3 +Cost: 0.000237143493845625 cUSD +USDC: +Example tx hash: 0x45b84acb1f440509b85d8ab942e489c28427751a3cf55f558a6bf8f7df8aeea2 +Cost: 0.000240841172077479 +USDT: + Example tx hash: +0x2310021513441c5ba42b028f907732510143d9e3e23d03719830a4b5cbd8d32d +Cost: 0.000237139846444008 + + +After this change is implemented, the most expensive stable asset transfer will cost $0.00120420586. + +Please note that these numbers are illustrative, smart contracts are complex and how much gas a transfer takes may vary depending on many factors. The actual cost of gas is also volatile, affected also by the value of CELO and network usage. + +### Testing + +This change has already been deployed to alfajores, you can see a test transaction here where the gas for a stable asset was 0.1 cent of cUSD. Here's an example tx hash: [0x36d33d45a5a1c4c2a20fef6ba6e771569c361ae0152fd2dc198043150f49d398](https://alfajores.celoscan.io/tx/0x36d33d45a5a1c4c2a20fef6ba6e771569c361ae0152fd2dc198043150f49d398) + +## Proposed Changes + + +1. Setting a new gas price minimum + - Destination: GasPriceMinimum.setGasPriceMinimumFloor + - Data: ["25000000000"] + - Value: 0 + +## Verification + +Current GasPriceMinimum floor can be fetched with: + +`celocli network:parameters --node https://forno.celo.org` + +The proposal can be fetched with: + +`$ celocli governance:view --proposalID $proposalID --node https://forno.celo.org` + +The proposed number should be 5x higher than the current gas price. + +## Useful Links + +* Forum Post +* Forum Post for previous gas price minimum modification https://forum.celo.org/t/increase-of-minimum-gas-fee/4616 +* Celo Docs: Gas Pricing https://docs.celo.org/protocol/transaction/gas-pricing diff --git a/CGPs/cgp-0145/alfajores.json b/CGPs/cgp-0145/alfajores.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1ec034eb --- /dev/null +++ b/CGPs/cgp-0145/alfajores.json @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[ + { + "contract": "GasPriceMinimum", + "function": "setGasPriceMinimumFloor", + "args": [ + "25000000000" + ], + "value": "0" + } + ] \ No newline at end of file