3 posts tagged with "eip-7928"

Eleven successful Glamsterdam contract-creation transactions did something Mainnet still treats as an ETH burn. During initcode, each new address called SELFDESTRUCT with itself as beneficiary. The address finished with no code, nonce zero and empty storage, but its 45,959–61,659 wei balance survived.

That is EIP-8246 working as designed. The stranger part is what EIP-7928 kept: 16 storage keys from accounts whose storage ended empty, including eight SSTORE writes that were erased at transaction finalization.

The raw block access list was boring. Besu, Erigon, Ethrex, Nethermind and Reth all returned the same 92,543 RLP bytes for one canonical Glamsterdam block, and those bytes hashed back to the header. Then I asked for decoded JSON: Reth shortened 424 fields that the API defines as exactly 32 bytes.

Plataberget spent five hours producing block access lists around 24 KiB. A few hours later they had settled near 86 KiB, yet the lists still held roughly the same number of unique addresses and storage keys.

That is the part I did not expect. The devnet pushed almost ten times more gas through each block without adding more transactions or more BAL items. The extra 61 KiB went into the payload hanging off those items.