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Fee market change for ETH 1.0 chain

Replace a first-price auction for inclusion with a protocol-quoted base fee that moves with demand, plus a tip to the producer. The base fee is burned. The EIP is a fee-market rule, not a promise that fees will be low.

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Authors: Vitalik Buterin, Eric Conner, Rick Dudley, Matthew Slipper, Ian Norden and Abdelhamid Bakhta
Date: 2019
Publisher: Vitalik Buterin, Eric Conner, Rick Dudley, Matthew Slipper, Ian Norden and Abdelhamid Bakhta
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0096
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Canonical readingEIP-1559 study
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Buterin, V., Conner, E., Dudley, R., Slipper, M., Norden, I., & Bakhta, A. (2019). Fee market change for ETH 1.0 chain. Vitalik Buterin, Eric Conner, Rick Dudley, Matthew Slipper, Ian Norden and Abdelhamid Bakhta. https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1559

BibTeX

@techreport{eip15592019,
  title = {Fee market change for ETH 1.0 chain},
  author = {Vitalik Buterin, Eric Conner, Rick Dudley, Matthew Slipper, Ian Norden and Abdelhamid Bakhta},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Vitalik Buterin, Eric Conner, Rick Dudley, Matthew Slipper, Ian Norden and Abdelhamid Bakhta},
  url = {https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1559},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eip-1559}
}

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AU  - Ian Norden
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