We want to mitigate two scenarios

• Scenario 1: existing small datasets are not dropped by SPs when base fee raises;
• Scenario 2: a new datasets which get initiated with very small first piece(s) are not accepted by SP.

If basefee raises to 0.0056 nanoFIL (march 2025 avg)

We did some calculation

According to the PDP gas and cost calculator , datasets with

• Size lower than 24 GiB
• The max number of roots we considered so far (~100k )

which translates into avg root size of 250Kb are not profitable for SPs in the current payment model where clients pay for actual storage, if basefee raises to 0.0056 nanoFIL (average value of march 2025).

Given we are targeting clients with small dataset, this could represent an obstacle as small datasets can be rejected from storage in case basefee goes up.

In order to mitigate this potential issue, we propose to set up the minimum monthly payment for dataset to be 0.06 USDFC/month, whihc is the price a 24GB dataset would pay, assuming 2.5 USDFC/TiB/month.

Considering we are creating 2 copies per client, the total minimal cost on the client side would be 0.12 USDFC/month

Note that this min price would cover both Scenario 1 and Scenario 2.

Payment logic would stay the same, but until dataset size reaches 24 GiB, price would be constant and equal to 0.06USDFC/month.

Beyond that threshold, pricing can be the same as we have today, based on actual dataset size.