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EIP-8311 Increase Calldata Floor Cost to 96

DraftCorecreated 2026-06-20requires EIP-3860, EIP-7623, EIP-7976

Increase the calldata floor cost to 96/96 gas per byte to align it with the ETH-transfer byte-density anchor

Authors: Maria Silva (@misilva73), Toni Wahrstätter (@nerolation)

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Proposals this one names in its requires field.

EIP-3860Limit and meter initcodeEIP-7623Increase calldata costEIP-7976Increase Calldata Floor Cost

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AbstractMotivationSpecificationRationaleDeriving the anchor densityChoosing the floor valueAdditional effectsBackwards 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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