Solana’s daily burn could surge from $47K to $650K if SIMD-0553 passes

Solana is on the verge of torching a lot more of its own token. A newly merged proposal called SIMD-0553 would restructure how transaction fees work on the network, and the math is striking: daily SOL burns would jump from roughly 650 SOL, worth about $47,000, to somewhere between 7,500 and 9,000 SOL, worth up to $650,000. That’s a 12 to 14x increase in the amount of SOL permanently removed from circulation every single day. How the new fee model works Right now, every Solana transaction carries a flat fee of 5,000 lamports per signature. SIMD-0553 splits this flat fee into two components. First, a 2,500-lamport inclusion fee that goes directly to the block leader, the validator producing the block. Second, a new resource fee calculated based on the compute units a transaction actually requests. That resource fee gets burned entirely. The proposal was authored by Helius engineer 0xIchigo and merged on July 20, 2026. Implementation is expected to arrive through phased feature gates in the upcoming Solana 4.3 release. The disinflation squeeze SIMD-0553 isn’t traveling alone. It’s bundled alongside SIMD-0550, a companion proposal that would double Solana’s annual disinflation rate fro...