The Universal Burn CIP is still in draft, but it has important implications. @bc1pxxx + @ShaulKfir just put out this CIP that unifies Canton MainNet’s economics. What it is: Today, Global Synchronizer traffic burns $CC and pays rewards. Dedicated synchronizers mostly sit outside that via license fees. This CIP makes every production synchronizer burn CC at the same list price ($60/MB ≈ $1 per typical ~16.7 KB transaction), extends app/validator rewards to all traffic, and makes dedicated synchronizers fully permissionless. It adds volume pricing + commitment discounts (backed by staked $CC) so high-throughput, low-value workloads can actually live here. Hard dollar numbers (not yet approved): → Volume curve on dedicated synchronizers: price halves every 10× sustained throughput: ≤1 TPS stays at list (~$1). 10 TPS → 50¢. 100 TPS → 25¢. 1,000 TPS → 12.5¢. → Commitment (1yr+, 20% collateral of annual fees): 50% off the volume price. Extra collateral up to 100% of a year’s spend stacks further (toward ~74% off volume price). Loyalty adds up to another 60% after four years. → Full stack example: a 10 TPS app drops from 50¢ gross to about 5¢ per transaction. Most of what’s burned is expected to come back as rewards (≥90%), so the net cost is substantially lower. → Why the curve exists: a flat $1 everywhere would make 1,000 TPS cost ~$31.5B/year. That prices real payment and trading volume off the network. Scale implications: The current split leaves high-volume dedicated capacity economically outside the @CantonNetwork $CC economy. Universal burn turns that into net-new burn. Volume + commitment pricing is what makes sustained institutional throughput (payments, trading, composed RWA flows) viable without forcing everything onto the Global Synchronizer or leaking value as licenses. Collateral commitments lock $CC and make future burn more forecastable. Dedicated capacity becomes additive rather than fragmenting. One network, one economy. The framework decision is the one that matters first. Numbers follow. Zth.