2 posts tagged with "selfdestruct"

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.

A lot of Ethereum code still says SELFDESTRUCT.

That word is now a trap.

After EIP-6780, SELFDESTRUCT only deletes code and storage when the contract was created in the same transaction. Older contracts can still send their ETH balance to a beneficiary, but the account does not get wiped.

So I checked how often the opcode is still real deletion.