# Ethereum Foundation Research Asks Whether Ethereum Needs More Fee Meters or More Prices

The new analysis compares a single blended gas price with the separate per-resource base fees proposed in EIP-7999, a draft by Anders Elowsson and Vitalik Buterin that no network upgrade has scheduled yet.

- Published: 2026-11-13T05:45:42.603Z
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- Sources: [Ethereum Research (Fei Wu)](https://ethresear.ch/t/more-meters-or-more-prices-one-vs-multi-dimensional-fee-mechanisms-on-ethereum/26244), [Ethereum Research (WARCoin RFC)](https://ethresear.ch/t/rfc-warcoin-deterministic-1-1-usd-stablecoin-via-serialized-7-day-color-ring-buffers-and-burn-on-egress-invariants/26246), [Ethereum Improvement Proposals](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7999), [Ethereum Research (gas accounting)](https://ethresear.ch/t/designs-for-evm-gas-accounting-in-eip-7999/25696)

Fei Wu, who did the work partly during an internship at the Ethereum Foundation, published an analysis comparing one-dimensional and multi-dimensional fee mechanisms on Ethereum. It follows earlier equilibrium and simulation studies of the…

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