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EIP-3298 Remove storage-clear refund and refund cap

DraftCorecreated 2021-02-26requires EIP-2780, EIP-3529, EIP-7778, EIP-8037, EIP-8038

Removes the SSTORE storage-clearing refund and the transaction refund cap, leaving only net-metered same-transaction write reversals

Authors: Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin), Martin Swende (@holiman), Jochem Brouwer (@jochem-brouwer)

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Proposals this one names in its requires field.

EIP-2780Resource-based intrinsic transaction gasEIP-3529Reduction in refundsEIP-7778Block Gas Accounting without RefundsEIP-8037State Creation Gas Cost IncreaseEIP-8038State-access gas cost update

What the specification covers

AbstractMotivationSpecificationSSTORE refund rulesRemoval of the refund capRationaleWhy the write reversal stays and the cap goesWhy the clearing refund goesBackwards CompatibilityTest CasesSecurity ConsiderationsCopyright

This proposal declares no Solidity interface, so there is nothing to compute. It may be a core protocol change, a meta proposal, or written in prose only.

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