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# 5.7 - Deterministic Fee Architecture

Polarischain eliminates gas auctions, priority bidding, and MEV-driven fee markets. Transaction costs are protocol-bound and optimized for payment SLAs.**Fee Calculation Factors:**

1. **Transaction Size:** Byte-weighted cost for signature, metadata, and payload transmission.
2. **DAG Traversal Depth:** Computational weight for parent-reference validation and linearization.
3. **Compliance Overhead:** Fixed surcharge for KYC hash verification, jurisdictional policy routing, and custodian attestation checks.

**Fee Routing:**

* `45%` → Validator Rewards Pool (compensates block production, consensus participation, compliance enforcement)
* `55%` → Redistribution Pool & Protocol Treasury (funds ecosystem grants, PQ research, regulator infrastructure, institutional onboarding)
* **No Token Burn:** Polarischain deliberately avoids deflationary burns. Burning tokens creates hoarding incentives that conflict with high-velocity payment settlement and introduces unpredictable supply shocks. Fees are recycled into network sustainability and governance-directed value creation.


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