Many people misunderstand one thing. Seeing a public chain with low fees and thinking it's good, the lower the better, but this is actually a wrong approach.

For blockchain networks that aim to handle real financial transactions and clearing, the key point is not whether the fees are cheap, but whether the fee market can operate stably, be predictable, and be schedulable. Why? Because only when the fee market is stable can price signals truly serve resource allocation during network congestion; external systems can make accurate cost estimates; application teams can design sustainable business models. Conversely, once the fee market becomes chaotic, even if the network experiences a surge in traffic one day, user experience will immediately collapse, which is the biggest concern for compliant finance.

DUSK's fee system has a often-overlooked but particularly practical detail — the fee unit is measured in LUX, where 1 LUX equals 10^-9 DUSK. This design truly reserves space for tiny fees and high-frequency interactions in the future. Many other chains have low fees early on, which seem very user-friendly, but as interaction density increases, they have to adjust rates with large steps, resulting in inconsistent user experience. The finer granularity of LUX makes it much more flexible when designing fee mechanisms, rebate policies, subsidy schemes, and risk control thresholds. This is especially important for scenarios like securitized assets, bond coupons, and money market instruments — these often require numerous small state updates and frequent event recordings.

From publicly available browser data, the current network fee levels remain very low, with total transaction fees over 24 hours still in the single digits of DUSK, and contract call counts also at a relatively low level. This indicates there is still huge growth potential for the network, and the rationality of fee design will demonstrate its true value as traffic increases.