EIP-8131
Unified Transaction Content Floor
Flat 64 gas per content byte at the floor, covering all user-controlled transaction fields and capping worst-case block size.
DraftSurge
Status history
- Draft21 Jan 2025
Abstract
Charge every user-controlled byte in a transaction (calldata, access-list entries, EIP-7702 auths, EIP-4844 blob hashes) at a flat 64 gas at the floor. One rule replaces EIP-7623/EIP-7976 and EIP-7981 and closes the auth and blob hash floor gaps. Worst-case user-controlled tx content per block is bounded by block_gas_limit / 64 ≈ 0.89 MB, a hard cap that shrinks worst-case blocks at an unchanged…