State Creation Gas Cost Increase

Status history

1. Draft1 Oct 2025
2. →Review30 Jul 2026
3. →Last Call7 Oct 2026

Abstract

This proposal increases the cost of state creation operations, thus avoiding excessive state growth under increased block gas limits. It introduces a new variable, CPSB (cost per state byte), and sets this unit of gas costs per new state byte by targeting an average state growth of 120 GiB per year at a reference block gas limit of 150M gas units. It also introduces an independent metering for…