2 posts tagged with "eip-2780"

A contract address can hold ETH before it has bytecode. That sounds like EVM trivia until a gas proposal has to decide whether deploying the code creates a new account or updates one that is already there.

Across 14 complete August days, 8,980 successful code deployments landed on addresses with a positive prestate balance. That was 1.03% of comparable creation frames, and the addresses held 5,989.950758 ETH in total before their deployment transactions began.

Twenty-one thousand gas used to be the boring answer for a plain Ethereum transaction. EIP-2780 turns it into three answers, and the current Glamsterdam devnet showed an awkward split: every execution client enforced the same new minima, while their eth_estimateGas endpoints returned three different rows.