One hundred green receipts went to code that does not exist
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EIP-7610 was declined for Glamsterdam last week. It would have made CREATE and CREATE2 revert when the destination already had non-empty storage. The live Mainnet edge case is a small fossil: 28 accounts with storage, nonce zero and no code.
Those accounts do not look dead when you inspect their transaction history. Xatu has 100 direct transactions into 22 of them, and all 100 receipts say success. Ninety carried calldata. Twenty-five used selectors that resolve to withdraw or refund functions, while another 11 looked like attempts to destroy the contract that was not there.