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EIP-8038 State-access gas cost update

ReviewCorecreated 2025-10-037 later proposals build on itrequires EIP-8037

Increases the gas cost of state-access operations to reflect Ethereum’s larger state

Authors: Maria Silva (@misilva73), Wei Han Ng (@weiihann), Ansgar Dietrichs (@adietrichs)

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EIP-8037State Creation Gas Cost Increase

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EIP-2780Resource-based intrinsic transaction gasEIP-3298Remove storage-clear refund and refund capEIP-8007Glamsterdam Gas RepricingsEIP-8037State Creation Gas Cost IncreaseEIP-8295State Tiering by PeriodsEIP-8296Fixed-Cutoff State TieringEIP-8298SETCODEFROM Code Reuse Instruction

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AbstractMotivationSpecificationCost componentsParametersSSTORE pricingAccount access pricingCALL/CALLCODECREATE/CREATE2SELFDESTRUCTEXT family updateOverviewRationaleEmpirical Estimation of Gas CostsSelecting which Operations to RepriceData CollectionRuntime EstimationConversion to gas costsInteraction with [EIP-7928](./eip-7928.md)Special case for EXTCODESIZE and EXTCODECOPYBackwards CompatibilitySecurity 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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