Yeah... They instead opted for some formulaic method for determining fees:

https://docs.cardano.org/explore-cardano/fee-structure/

So it's like a fixed fee, first come first serve kinda model.

The network stopped accepting new transactions a few times due to some NFT drops clogging the network a couple years back. I dunno if they ever fixed it, but I suspect not.



The only advantage I can think of here is that you can receive offline payments for cheaper than you could with on-chain Bitcoin, I guess???

Granted you could use literally any other coin in the same way. And this wouldn't be terribly reliable... Cardano's devs saw no need to implement a fee market, so their mempool just sorta clogs up and stops accepting new transactions during periods of heavy usage. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

bitcoin

Lightning using Phoenix vs Cardano using Exodus

The only advantage I can think of here is that you can receive offline payments for cheaper than you could with on-chain Bitcoin, I guess???

Granted you could use literally any other coin in the same way. And this wouldn't be terribly reliable... Cardano's devs saw no need to implement a fee market, so their mempool just sorta clogs up and stops accepting new transactions during periods of heavy usage. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯