EIP-8289
Multi-block Access List Warming
Pre-warm the per-transaction access list with items from the previous 256 block access lists
DraftVerge
Status history
- Draft3 May 2026
Abstract
About 17 % of an Ethereum mainnet block's gas pays the EIP-2929 cold-access surcharge: the extra ~2100 gas for the first touch of a storage slot and ~2600 for the first touch of an account address in a transaction. About 79 % of those first-touch items were also touched in the previous 256 blocks, so the surcharge is recoverable: a 256-block warming horizon saves ~14 % of total block gas at the…