Designing Redistribution Mechanisms for Reducing Transaction Fees in Blockchains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13262v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:09:32 GMT
• Title: Designing Redistribution Mechanisms for Reducing Transaction Fees in Blockchains
• Authors: Sankarshan Damle and Manisha Padala and Sujit Gujar
• Abstract summary: Transaction Fee Mechanisms (TFMs) determine which user transactions to include in blocks and determine their payments. We propose Transaction Fee Redistribution Mechanisms (TFRMs) -- redistributing VCG payments as rebates to minimize transaction fees. Our results show that TFRMs provide a promising new direction for reducing transaction fees in public blockchains.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Blockchains deploy Transaction Fee Mechanisms (TFMs) to determine which user transactions to include in blocks and determine their payments (i.e., transaction fees). Increasing demand and scarce block resources have led to high user transaction fees. As these blockchains are a public resource, it may be preferable to reduce these transaction fees. To this end, we introduce Transaction Fee Redistribution Mechanisms (TFRMs) -- redistributing VCG payments collected from such TFM as rebates to minimize transaction fees. Classic redistribution mechanisms (RMs) achieve this while ensuring Allocative Efficiency (AE) and User Incentive Compatibility (UIC). Our first result shows the non-triviality of applying RM in TFMs. More concretely, we prove that it is impossible to reduce transaction fees when (i) transactions that are not confirmed do not receive rebates and (ii) the miner can strategically manipulate the mechanism. Driven by this, we propose \emph{Robust} TFRM (\textsf{R-TFRM}): a mechanism that compromises on an honest miner's individual rationality to guarantee strictly positive rebates to the users. We then introduce \emph{robust} and \emph{rational} TFRM (\textsf{R}$^2$\textsf{-TFRM}) that uses trusted on-chain randomness that additionally guarantees miner's individual rationality (in expectation) and strictly positive rebates. Our results show that TFRMs provide a promising new direction for reducing transaction fees in public blockchains.

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