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How Solana Priority Fees and Compute Budget Units Work

Learn how Solana's local fee markets, compute unit limits, and micro-lamport prioritization ensure your transactions confirm during high network congestion.

Darren Chen(Solana Core Systems Engineer)
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Updated 2025-02-21
Executive Summary

Configure optimal compute budget instructions to prevent transaction timeouts during NFT mints and high-volume memecoin trading.

1. Solana's Account-Level Local Fee Markets

Unlike Ethereum where a hyped NFT mint makes the entire global blockchain expensive for all users, Solana implements localized fee markets.

Heavy contention on a single Raydium pool only raises priority fee competition for transactions touching that specific account, leaving simple wallet transfers unaffected.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1 SOL = 1,000,000,000 Lamports. 1 Micro-Lamport is 0.000001 Lamports (one quintillionth of a SOL).