# # Quota

Please note this is not a technical document, but mainly describes quota and quota-related topics. Technical details will be introduced in the yellow paper.

The Definitions of Terms:

• Quota： In Vite system, CPU cycles, storage space and network bandwidth consumed during transactions are paid by quota, instead of transaction fees
• PoW： Proof of Work, representing a certain amount of computational work has been performed
• Stake： Lock up an amount of VITE in the account for quota
• Staking address：The account who starts the staking transaction

## # What is Quota

In Ethereum, in order to have a transaction executed timely, the sender usually has to offer an appealing transaction fee to miner. The higher gas price offered, the sooner transaction executed. In this typical bidding model, the supply of system processing capability and the demand of sending transactions are balanced by gas price automatically. This model works fine in Ethereum, however, from user's perspective it is hard to determine what is the best gas price to offer for a certain time. Either too low or too high price will cause a market failure. Moreover, since gas is associated with individual transactions, it is impossible to measure and allocate computational resources at account level. In Vite, instead of charging transaction fees, a certain amount of quota is consumed when user sends a transaction, such as transfer, deploying new smart contract, calling smart contract, issuing new token, registering SBP, retrieving mining rewards, voting and staking. Vite has implemented a quota model to meet the supply and demand of resources.

Quota can be obtained in two ways:

• Obtain one-time, small-amount quota by computing PoW when sending transactions, or
• Stake VITE for account.

If you just simply need to send a transaction, you can choose PoW . If you need send many transactions during a short period, you should stake VITE to get enough quota.

We recommend staking.

## # Quota Consumption Rules

Various quota consumptions of different transactions:

Transaction Type Quota Consumed In Unit Transaction Minimal Staking Amount（Vite）
Send a transfer without comment 21000 1 134
Receive a transfer 21000 1 134
Register SBP 62200 2.9619 400
Update SBP registration 62200 2.9619 400
Cancel SBP registration 83200 3.9619 534
Retrieve mining rewards 68200 3.2476 534
Vote 62000 2.9524 400
Cancel voting 62000 2.9524 400
Stake for quota 82000 3.9048 534
Cancel staking for quota 73000 3.4762 534
Stake for quota via delegation 82000 3.9048 534
Cancel staking for quota via delegation 73000 3.4762 534
Issue new token 104525 4.9774 667
Mint additional token 69325 3.3012 534
Burn token 48837 2.3256 400
Transfer token ownership 58981 2.8086 400
Change token type 63125 3.0060 534
• Unit Transaction: The minimal transaction unit measured in quota consumption, equivalent to an un-commented transfer transaction

Each character in transaction's comment consumes additional 68 quota.

For example, given hex encoding is used, sending a transfer with a comment of '0x0001' (two characters) will consume

quota, which translates to 1.0065 unit transaction.

Note

Due to implementation of VEP-8, additional 136 quota (2 characters prefix) will be cost if you send a transfer with comment from Vite official wallet. No additional quota will be cost if no comment is attached.

If ConfirmTimes is assigned when creating new smart contract, for each response transaction of the contract, an additional quota about ConfirmTimes * 200 will be charged. ConfirmTimes defines a waiting number that specifies in how many confirmations the contract will produce a response after the request transaction is snapshotted.

## # Quota Calculation

Quotas are calculated in the following formulas:

Here,

• : Quota obtained through PoW calculation. This quota is valid once and can only be used in current transaction
• : Quota obtained by staking. This quota is long-time valid and can be accumulated for up to 75 snapshot blocks
• : Quota cap of one account, related to overall system throughput and total account number
• : The difficulty of PoW calculated
• : The weight obtained through PoW calculation
• : The staking amount
• : The weight obtained by staking
• : The idle time prior to sending a transaction, equivalent to height difference between the snapshot block that current transaction refers to and an earlier snapshot block that previous transaction refers to

In Vite Network,

• = 1000000
• = 6.259408129e-10
• = 4.201037667e-24

UTPS: Unit transaction per second, referring to how many un-commented transfer transactions can be sent by one account in one second

The available quota of an account depends on basic UTPS and quota consumption during the last 74 snapshot blocks. For example, account A has 1 UTPS' quota via staking and hasn't sent any transaction during last 74 snapshot blocks, then the available quota of account A is 75 UTPS.

The actual available quota of an account upon sending transaction depends on UTPS, quota consumption during last 74 snapshot blocks and PoW calculation. For example, account B has 1 UTPS' quota via staking and hasn't sent any transaction during last 74 snapshot blocks, while he also calculated a PoW nonce whose difficulty is entitled to obtain quota about 2 UTPS, then the available quota of account B is 77 UTPS.

For convenience in calculation, it is acceptable to calculate or only, and then map result to corresponding quota according to following table:

or UTPS Maximum Unit Transaction(s) in 75 seconds Approximately equivalent to how much VITE staked without calculating PoW Approximately equivalent to how difficult the PoW calculated without staking
0.0 0 0 0 0 0
280 1/75 1 134 894654
560 2/75 2 267 1789307
840 3/75 3 400 2683961
1120 4/75 4 534 3578615
1400 5/75 5 667 4473270
1680 6/75 6 800 5367925
1960 7/75 7 934 6262581
2240 8/75 8 1067 7157239
2520 9/75 9 1200 8051897
2800 10/75 10 1334 8946557
3080 11/75 11 1467 9841218
3360 12/75 12 1600 10735880
3640 13/75 13 1733 11630544
3920 14/75 14 1867 12525211
4200 15/75 15 2000 13419879
4480 16/75 16 2133 14314549
4760 17/75 17 2267 15209221
5040 18/75 18 2400 16103896
5320 19/75 19 2533 16998573
5600 20/75 20 2667 17893253
5880 21/75 21 2800 18787936
6160 22/75 22 2933 19682622
6440 23/75 23 3066 20577310
7000 25/75 25 3333 22366698
7280 26/75 26 3466 23261397
7560 27/75 27 3600 24156099
7840 28/75 28 3733 25050806
8120 29/75 29 3866 25945516
8400 30/75 30 4000 26840230
8680 31/75 31 4133 27734949
8960 32/75 32 4266 28629672
9240 33/75 33 4400 29524399
9520 34/75 34 4533 30419131
9800 35/75 35 4666 31313868
10080 36/75 36 4799 32208609
10360 37/75 37 4933 33103356
10640 38/75 38 5066 33998108
10920 39/75 39 5199 34892865
11200 40/75 40 5333 35787628
11480 41/75 41 5466 36682396
11760 42/75 42 5599 37577171
12040 43/75 43 5733 38471951
12320 44/75 44 5866 39366737
12600 45/75 45 5999 40261529
12880 46/75 46 6133 41156327