Super high gas price

[Alexey]

Hello @Wasgero,
Welcome to the forum!

There are three:

• credit card
• STORJ tokens via Ethereum (+10% bonus)
• STORJ tokens via zkSync Era (+10% bonus)

For the payouts for Storage Node Operators there are three too:

• STORJ tokens via Ethereum (L1)
• STORJ tokens via zkSync Lite (deprecated), (3% bonus)
• STORJ tokens via zkSync Era (3% bonus)

We will not plan to use other blockchains and/or tokens for payouts.

[Alexey]

Yes, but these fees will be paid by Storj in case if you specify your account’s deposit address as your wallet address in storagenode.

@mythsmith

Amounts could be held and detracted directly from within the storj company, without any transaction and without any blockchain, using an internal accounting system.

Yes, it would be nice, but requires developers to implement this feature. It may be considered though, but no so much cases currently.

[mythsmith]

Ok thanks for the reply. Is it public how much does storj pay globally in transaction fees towards and from its account’s deposit addresses? It would be a metric to value the feature.

[Alexey]

Yes, you may check every transaction on a blockchain in the associated block explorer. You can easily identify payouts - the first two weeks of every month from a few addresses.
If you are a Node Operator too, you may find them also by TX to your wallet address.

[Wasgero]

For example, they could consider using layer 2 solutions like Polygon or Optimism, which typically have lower fees than the Ethereum mainnet.
It’s also worth keeping an eye on developments in the Ethereum ecosystem, such as the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 upgrade, which aims to improve scalability and reduce fees.
In the meantime, if you’re looking for ways to manage your business’s utility costs, you might want to check out https://smarterbusiness.co.uk/business-gas/. They can help you find the most optimal gas provider for your needs.

[nerdatwork]

@Wasgero

you might want to check out

Rather EIP 3074 EIPs/EIPS/eip-3074.md at 1ccfab6874c28b1ba8f1eaf550570b5b22f6408d · ethereum/EIPs · GitHub

The proposal’s addition is expected to vastly improve the crypto user experience, allowing for batched token approvals and the ability to pay for gas using ERC20 tokens.

[Roxor]

@Wasgero

For example, they could consider using layer 2 solutions like Polygon or Optimism, which typically have lower fees than the Ethereum mainnet.

Isn’t that why they support zkSync Era?

L2 sounds good… except when all the useful things you want to do need the coins on L1. Then you still end up paying the higher transaction fee and have only added a step.

[mythsmith]

Seems tricky… I am surprised storj does not periodically estimate global transaction fees for its internal accounting.

[Toyoo]

@Wasgero

For example, they could consider using layer 2 solutions like Polygon or Optimism, which typically have lower fees than the Ethereum mainnet.

You may want to search this forum for the polygon term. Almost nobody used it.

@jtolio

For Polygon payments, we paid 35 unique wallet addresses. We are intending to drop Polygon support once zkSync 2.0 support lands, considering zkSync 2.0 resolves the main issue with zkSync 1.0 that led to us exploring Polygon: registration fees.

[Alexey]

It’s collected in the financial reports I’m sure. We provide a Stat for our service, not third-party services.
However, you may collect this fee info from the public chains, the usual work for a data scientist.