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Almost free transactions means spam.

Spam, forces all apps to play whack-a-mole trying to create algorithms to mark tokens and transaction patterns as spam.

Spammers adapt. It's free for them anyway.

Real users and builders of the chain suffer.

What can we do to fight this?

IMO protocol fees are the best weapon against spam - but if you make them too high, DAU suffers, which you can combat by using protocol fees on ads or incentives

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IMO protocol fees are the best weapon against spam - but if you make them too high, DAU suffers, which you can combat by using protocol fees on ads or incentives
https://x.com/shukudaidayo/status/1710675925535162444

EOS taught me this. Pretty sure they attempted to use stake as a storage restraint but the spam still rained on chain users.

Any attempt to rate limit results in potential denial of service. Currently the limit is capital based, every action has a cost. You can shift to time, messages, POW or more but none are ideal.

Maybe attaching “slightly less-adaptable” fees might discourage spammers adapting. Don’t you think?