Reducing transaction costs — a guideline for developers — MUST READ

As you know the TON provides for the possibility of reducing the price of gas and message forwarding by a network-wide vote.

What developers need to know with this lowering transaction costs:

1) Current smart contracts where fees are hardcoded will not break, as there will be a decrease of gas/forward price, not an increase.

2) Please use new TVM opcodes in your smart contracts to dynamically calculate fees and do not hardcode fees in Toncoins in the smart contract code.

3) No one knows Toncoin future market dynamic. This means that after a decrease, after some time there may be a increase of transaction costs measured in TON.

Never hardcode fees in Toncoin at a reduced price in the smart contract code, otherwise your smart contract will break at a possible increase of gas price.

We can guarantee that the gas price will not be higher than the current price (as of April 16, 2024).