Back to collectionBefore London, A-Zhen Separates Fee Mechanics from Player Costs
Background: With Ethereum’s London upgrade approaching, the group was focused on how EIP-1559 might change fees. Today: On the eve of the London upgrade, people in the group began explaining EIP-1559, and A-Zhen held a short class. Impact and next steps: The group moved from expecting an upgrade to bring an immediate fee reduction to distinguishing a mechanism change from actual congestion.
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Background: With Ethereum’s London upgrade approaching, the group was focused on how EIP-1559 might change fees. A-Zhen was an early engineer who had worked on the chain side; she knew an explanation of the mechanism was not the same as the cost players would actually feel, so she decided to break down the questions.
Today: On the eve of the London upgrade, people in the group began explaining EIP-1559, and A-Zhen held a short class. She first clarified how the fee mechanism would change, then used game actions and NFT minting as examples for discussion: an updated mechanism could not guarantee that every transaction would be cheaper. Night Watchman wrote down the players’ main question, “Exactly how much less will we pay?”, to revisit after the upgrade.
Impact and next steps: The group moved from expecting an upgrade to bring an immediate fee reduction to distinguishing a mechanism change from actual congestion. A-Zhen’s explanation set boundaries for the discussion but offered no price answer in advance; how fees would behave after the upgrade, and what game-level experience still lacked, would depend on real use.