EIP-8032
Size-Based Storage Gas Pricing
Makes `SSTORE` gas cost scale with a contract's storage size to discourage state bloat.
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- Draft29 Sep 2025
Abstract
This EIP introduces a mechanism to dynamically price SSTORE operations based on the storage size of a contract. A new optional storage_count field is added to the account RLP, which tracks the number of storage slots it owns. The gas cost for SSTORE will be augmented by a factor that grows exponentially with this storage_count field, but only after it crosses a predefined activation threshold…
- Created
- 29 Sep 2025
- Authors
- Guillaume Ballet, Carlos Perez, Matan Prasma, Wei Han Ng
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