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Base Fees
Latest value: 843.2 SOL on 3 November 2026.
30-day average: 1,556 SOL, up 6.6% from a year earlier (1,460 SOL).
Highest daily value since January 2025: 2,271 SOL on 15 October 2026.
The default network series of the Explorer (base_fees_total_sol). Download the data (CSV)
Total base (signature) fees collected network-wide per day. Every transaction pays a fixed 5,000 lamports per signature: 50% is burned 50% goes to the validator. Splits into vote fees (validators' largest operating cost) and non-vote fees (from user activity).
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- Area
- Fees
- Frequency
- Daily
- Unit
- SOL
- Split by
- Network
- Source
- Dune
Monthly averages
| Month | Base Fees |
|---|---|
| November 2026 (to 3 November) | 790.6 SOL |
| October 2026 | 1,689 SOL |
| September 2026 | 1,867 SOL |
| August 2026 | 1,667 SOL |
| July 2026 | 1,483 SOL |
| June 2026 | 1,470 SOL |
| May 2026 | 1,366 SOL |
| April 2026 | 1,397 SOL |
| March 2026 | 1,521 SOL |
| February 2026 | 1,556 SOL |
| January 2026 | 1,441 SOL |
| December 2025 | 1,315 SOL |
What it shows
Total network-wide signature fees charged each day. Every included signature costs exactly 5,000 lamports (vote transactions use the same mechanic). 50% of base fees are permanently burned; 50% are paid to the block-producing validator.
How it is computed
Every included signature costs exactly 5,000 lamports. Non-vote base fees are summed across all transaction signatures per block, and vote base fees are summed separately. Both are averaged per block, then multiplied by the day's block count to recover daily totals.
Aggregation: Daily total derived from average-per-block multiplied by block count.
Things to know
- Base fees are fully deterministic: 5,000 lamports per included signature.
- 50% of base fees are permanently burned; the other 50% go to the block-producing validator.
- Vote base fees (validators' own consensus-participation transactions) are the largest single base-fee component.
- USD values are absent when the SOL price feed has a gap longer than one day; no stale price is ever carried forward.
Full method and formula in the Methodology