Your Coins Pay Their Own Fees ⛽ Gas is the tax nobody signed up for, and on $TAO it swings hard. The cost to register a new subnet roughly doubles each time somebody registers one, then falls back when things slow down. $XRP went the other way and keeps fees tiny, though the ledger still logged 222.4 million transactions last quarter. And about a quarter of those failed, which still costs the sender every time. Midnight handles this differently, and it is the part that made me read the docs twice. Holding NIGHT generates DUST, and DUST is what pays for private transactions. You cannot buy DUST and you cannot trade it. It refills on its own, and how much you get tracks how much NIGHT you hold. So your fees come out of your bag instead of out of your pocket. For a retail holder that kills the thing I hate most about DeFi. No topping up before a trade, and no getting priced out because the network got busy that afternoon. Holding the asset is what pays for using it, and I think other chains copy that model once users feel the difference. #Privacy #DeFi