Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has put his thinking cap on again in an attempt to improve the current fee structure for the network.
The proposal titled “Multidimensional EIP-1559” was laid out in a blog post on Wednesday in which Buterin noted that different resources in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) have different demands in terms of gas usage.
He added that there are different limits for short-term “burst” capacity as opposed to “sustained” capacity within the EVM, citing examples of block data storage, witness data storage and block state size changes.
“The scheme we have today, where all resources are combined together into a single multidimensional resource (‘gas’), does a poor job at handling these differences.”
