Transaction Fees OVM 2.0

Learn how transaction fees are calculated under OVM 2.0

Transaction Fees in OVM 2.0

This page refers to the new state of Habtor Network after the OVM 2.0 update (deployed Oct. 28 2021).

Fees in a nutshell

Fees on Habtor are, for the most part, significantly lower than on the BSC mainnet. The cost of every transaction is the sum of two values:

1. Your L2 (execution) fee, and

2. Your L1 (security) fee.

At a high level, the L2 fee is the cost to execute your transaction in L2 and the L1 fee is the estimated cost to submit your transaction to L1 (in a rollup batch).

1. L2 execution fee is charged as tx.gasPrice * l2GasUsed (up to tx.gasLimit). The L2 gas price will vary depending on network congestion.

2. L1 security fee is automatically charged as l1GasPrice * l1GasUsed. This is the cost of storing the transaction's data on L1.

   • l1GasPrice is the same as the normal gas price in L1 BSC mainnet

   • l1GasUsed is calculated as 1.5*(2750 gas + calldataGas). Thus, more calldata your transaction includes, the more expensive your L1 fee will be. For example, an BNB transfer has no calldata, so it will have the cheapest L1 fee, whereas large contract deployments can have over 25kb of calldata and will result in a high L1 fee. We currently add a 50% overhead to the L1 fee to ensure the fee paid covers the actual L1 costs.

To obtain BNB on Habtor Network you can deposit BNB via https://gateway.habtor.com on both Testnet or Mainnet.