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EIP-8037 State Creation Gas Cost Increase

ReviewCorecreated 2025-10-0113 later proposals build on itrequires EIP-161, EIP-684, EIP-2780, EIP-6780, EIP-7610, EIP-7623, EIP-7702, EIP-7825, EIP-7928, EIP-7976, EIP-8038

Harmonization, increase and separate metering of state creation gas costs to mitigate state growth and unblock scaling

Authors: Maria Silva (@misilva73), Carlos Perez (@CPerezz), Jochem Brouwer (@jochem-brouwer), Ansgar Dietrichs (@adietrichs), Łukasz Rozmej (@LukaszRozmej), Anders Elowsson (@anderselowsson), Francesco D'Amato (@fradamt), Dragan Rakita (@rakita)

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Proposals this one names in its requires field.

EIP-161State trie clearing (invariant-preserving alternative)EIP-684Revert creation in case of collisionEIP-2780Resource-based intrinsic transaction gasEIP-6780SELFDESTRUCT only in same transactionEIP-7610Revert creation in case of non-empty storageEIP-7623Increase calldata costEIP-7702Set Code for EOAsEIP-7825Transaction Gas Limit CapEIP-7928Block-Level Access ListsEIP-7976Increase Calldata Floor CostEIP-8038State-access gas cost update

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Later proposals that name this one in their requires field.

EIP-2780Resource-based intrinsic transaction gasEIP-3298Remove storage-clear refund and refund capEIP-8007Glamsterdam Gas RepricingsEIP-8038State-access gas cost updateEIP-8075Adaptive state cost to cap growth & scale L1EIP-8141Frame TransactionEIP-8188Last-Written Block for Accounts and SlotsEIP-8250Keyed Nonces for Frame TransactionsEIP-8295State Tiering by PeriodsEIP-8296Fixed-Cutoff State TieringEIP-8298SETCODEFROM Code Reuse InstructionEIP-8368CPSB Recalibration for New Gas LimitEIP-8372Normalized state gas limit

What the specification covers

AbstractMotivationSpecificationNew parametersParameter changesMultidimensional metering for state creation costsTransaction validationTransaction-level gas accounting (reservoir model)Gas accounting for SSTORE (opcode-level)Gas accounting for new accountsGas refills for SELFDESTRUCTGas accounting for halts and revertsGas accounting for [EIP-7702](./eip-7702.md) authorizationsPre-state and post-state gas validationTransaction gas usedBlock-level gas accountingIntegration with [EIP-7778](./eip-7778.md)Receipt semanticsSystem contracts and system transactionsRationaleDeriving the cost per state byte (CPSB)InputsDerivationWhy target a 150M block limit?Why target 120 GiB per year?Harmonization across state creationDeriving byte size for new slots and accountsMultidimensional meteringEIP-7825 limit on contract sizeHigher throughputCalldata floor in block accountingState-gas refills under [EIP-7778](./eip-7778.md)Account-creation charging and [EIP-7928](./eip-7928.md)Backwards CompatibilityDeterministic deployment factoriesEstimated price impactsSecurity ConsiderationsPricing mismatch with respect to ETH transfersAdded complexity in block buildinggas_left can increaseInteraction with [ERC-4337](./eip-4337.md) bundlesCopyright

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