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EIP-8151 Account Code Restricted ecRecover

DraftCorecreated 2026-02-09requires EIP-2929, EIP-3607, EIP-7702

Restrict ecRecover results to accounts with empty code or a delegation indicator

Authors: Liyi Guo (@colinlyguo), Nicolas Consigny (@nconsigny)

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EIP-2929Gas cost increases for state access opcodesEIP-3607Reject transactions from senders with deployed codeEIP-7702Set Code for EOAs

What the specification covers

AbstractMotivationSpecificationModified ecRecover BehaviorAccount Code CheckGas CostRationaleProtocol-Level ModificationReturning 32 Zero BytesEIP-2929 Gas AccountingBackwards CompatibilityReference ImplementationSecurity ConsiderationsContracts Not Checking for Zero ReturnApplication-Level ECDSA VerificationCross-Domain / L2 Fault Proof ImplicationsCopyright

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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