Core devs move ten EIPs onto the inclusion lists for the next fork
Victoria Shinder1 min readEIP-8081, the meta proposal that tracks what is scheduled and considered for inclusion in the next Ethereum upgrade, has been updated with the decisions taken on All Core Devs Execution call 246. The commit adds a batch of proposals to the lists.
Among them: EIP-3298, remove the storage-clear refund and the refund cap; EIP-7668, remove bloom filters; EIP-7906, transaction assertions via a state diff opcode; EIP-7979, call and return opcodes for the EVM; EIP-8131, a unified transaction content floor; EIP-8163, reserve the EXTENSION (0xae) opcode; EIP-8250, keyed nonces for frame transactions; EIP-8253, bump the nonce of zero-nonce storage accounts; EIP-8272, recent roots for frame transactions; and EIP-8279, a block access list byte floor. EIP-4758, which deactivates SELFDESTRUCT, and EIP-8015, which removes the deposit and eth1data fields, remain on the lists.
What it means
Read the batch and a direction shows through it: most of these subtract. Refunds go, bloom filters go, SELFDESTRUCT goes, consensus fields go. Refunds and SELFDESTRUCT are both mechanisms whose gas accounting never matched what they actually cost a node, and bloom filters are a log-filtering shortcut that light clients largely stopped relying on.
Removing a feature from a live chain is the most expensive change there is, because every tool that depended on it breaks at a block height nobody can move. That the list is mostly removals says the cost of carrying these is now judged higher than the cost of breaking the things that use them.