Inter-Block Temporal Locality Gas Discounts

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1. Draft20 Oct 2025

Abstract

This proposal introduces a deterministic, multi-block discount for the first access to accounts and storage keys in a transaction. The discount depends on how many blocks have passed since the item was last accessed, decaying smoothly to zero over a fixed recent window. Intra-block warming semantics are unchanged - there is no warming across transactions within a block. The mechanism builds on…