{"id":788,"date":"2026-01-05T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/?p=788"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:17:50","slug":"gas-price-reduction-governance-vote-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/gas-price-reduction-governance-vote-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Price Reduction Governance Vote Now Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ontology has officially launched a governance vote to reduce the MainNet minimum gas price, from 2500 to 500, and the voting window is now open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3&nbsp;<strong>Voting Period:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Start:<\/strong>&nbsp;00:00 UTC, January 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>End:<\/strong>&nbsp;00:00 UTC, January 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal? Lower the cost of onchain transactions, improve usability for dApps, and unlock a smoother experience for developers and users across the ecosystem. With recent optimizations improving both consensus and gas handling, the network is ready for this change, without sacrificing performance or stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower gas = lower barriers. This proposal helps Ontology stay competitive with other L1s while empowering builders, users, and emerging dApps with a more cost-efficient environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddf3&nbsp;<strong>Node operators can vote now via OWallet.<\/strong>&nbsp;Every vote counts in shaping the next evolution of the Ontology network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontology has officially launched a governance vote to reduce the MainNet minimum gas price, from 2500 to 500, and the voting window is now open. \ud83d\uddd3&nbsp;Voting Period: Start:&nbsp;00:00 UTC, January 6 End:&nbsp;00:00 UTC, January 9 The goal? Lower the cost of onchain transactions, improve usability for dApps, and unlock a smoother experience for developers and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[93,94,96,102,36,47,85],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecosystem","tag-tokenomics","tag-ong","tag-governance","tag-node-operators","tag-ontology-network","tag-staking","tag-blockchain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ont.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}