Block Gas Accounting without Refunds

Status history

1. Draft1 Oct 2024
2. →Review10 Jul 2026
3. →Last Call7 Oct 2026

Abstract

This EIP modifies the block gas accounting mechanism to prevent the circumvention of block gas limits. It proposes that gas refunds, particularly those from SSTORE operations setting storage slots to zero, should not reduce the gas counted toward the block gas limit, while still being applied to transaction gas costs for users.