> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.aultblockchain.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Gas & Fee Market

## Fee Market Design

Ault uses an EIP-1559-style fee market designed to provide predictable pricing while automatically adjusting to network demand.

Each transaction pays a dynamically adjusted **base fee**, which increases during congestion and decreases when activity subsides. This mechanism reduces fee volatility and improves estimation reliability for users and developers.

Users may also include an optional **priority tip** to incentivize faster inclusion by validators.

Unlike Ethereum, Ault does not burn the base fee. Instead, fees are redistributed within the network to reinforce validator incentives and support community governance.

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## Fee Distribution

Transaction fees are split at the protocol level:

* **90%** → validators and delegators
* **10%** → DAO Community Pool

The validator portion strengthens network security by directly rewarding those who validate the chain.

The DAO allocation provides a continuous funding source for ecosystem growth, grants, liquidity programs, and other community-approved initiatives.