The lamports required per byte will drop to 5080, with the second step of Solana rent reduction set to take effect on September 11

Odaily reports that, according to Anza monitoring, the second step of Solana proposal SIMD-0437's rent reduction will take effect on the mainnet on September 11 at approximately 21:15 UTC, corresponding to epoch 1033. At that time, the lamports required per byte will drop from 6333 to 5080, a cumulative decrease of about 27% from the initial level, further lowering the deposit required for on-chain storage such as creating token accounts. There is currently no fixed timetable for subsequent steps; the third step will begin only after on-chain state growth is confirmed to be safe. If anomalies occur, SIMD-0438 can serve as a fallback mechanism to adjust the rent parameters back. At present, three steps remain in the five-step plan.