# Gas cost discussion

**URL:** <https://governance.aave.com/t/gas-cost-discussion/183>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Created:** [July 30, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/gas-cost-discussion/183 "2020-07-30T15:32:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![James](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/governance.aave.com/james/32/62_2.png) [@James](https://governance.aave.com/u/James)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://governance.aave.com/t/gas-cost-discussion/183/15 "2020-08-04T02:48:24Z")

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+1 to @defidude comments.

🔥 \_🔥 thoughts:

- Spending the AAVE reserve on gas seems to be a low value activity for the protocol, helping out small users is great but we’re aiming to build a trillion dollar protocol over the next decade (Have to think big & long term imo).

- The development overhead is definitely something worth considering - hopefully the massive gas costs will be improved over short/medium term (L2, ETH2, etc)

- gasToken could be a viable middle ground.

- As mentioned by DeFiDude - there could be some system where ‘by having x amount of AAVE held in the SM addresses get gas paid for’ but that just seems to help users who already have $ regardless.

Overall: Ethereum & other layer 2 techs currently have scalability as a high priority. On top of this, using traditional finance costs thousands of dollars instead of tens of dollars, seems like not a massive roadblock.

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