Contract Deployment Fails with INSUFFICIENT_PAYER_BALANCE Despite Sufficient HBAR Balance on Local-Node

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Description

On latest local-node@2.37.1, with CN@63.0 and MN@0.130.0, contract deployment fails with an INSUFFICIENT_PAYER_BALANCE error even when the deploying account holds 10 HBAR.

***Note: The same deployment with same account balance succeeds on testnet, indicating a discrepancy between the two environments.

After further testing and experimenting, it appears that local-node only allows contract deployment when the sender account holds at least 11.5 HBAR. Any amount below that threshold results in an INSUFFICIENT_PAYER_BALANCE error.

A related comment on the Mirror Node repo here suggests there may be a fee schedule mismatch between local-node and testnet.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start local-node (v2.37.1) with CN@63.0 and MN@0.130.0
2. Ensure an account has 10 HBAR.
3. Attempt to deploy a contract using this account (e.g., via eth_estimateGas, eth_sendRawTransaction, or any deployment method).
4. Observe the error response:

Error: execution reverted (could not decode reason; invalid data length) (action="estimateGas", data="0x494e53554646494349454e545f50415945525f42414c414e4345", reason=null, transaction={ "data": "0x6080604052600f600055348015601457600080fd5b50606e8060226000396000f3fe6080604052348015600f57600080fd5b506004361060285760003560e01c80632de4e88414602d575b600080fd5b60366008600055565b00fea26469706673582212204f4929609314772906604fbf3fa15708239abd76b6d2a022fa89ae0e0b888bb264736f6c63430008090033", "from": "0x3f18A454ac364c6E8867b09674FB61732454eFea", "to": null }, invocation=null, revert=null, code=CALL_EXCEPTION, version=6.14.4)

// 0x494e53554646494349454e545f50415945525f42414c414e4345 = INSUFFICIENT_PAYER_BALANCE

5. Increase the account's balance to 11.5 HBAR or higher.
6. Retry the contract deployment.
7. The deployment now succeeds.

Additional context

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Hedera network

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Version

2.37.1

Operating system

None