State Rent A - State counters contract

Status history

1. Draft15 May 2019
2. ⋯Stagnantdate not observed

Abstract

This is part of the State Rent roadmap. This particular change introduces a place in the Ethereum state where various state counters can be stored. At this point, the most important counter is the total number of transactions happened, and this counter will be used to populate the nonces of newly created non-contract accounts. This way of populating nonce ensures replay protection for accounts…