Add EIP: Increase Calldata Floor Cost to 96#11821
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Rename eip-0000.md to eip-8311.md and add EIP metadata (number, discussions-to).
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Add EIP: Increase Calldata Floor Cost to 96
Summary
This PR adds a new Standards Track (Core) EIP proposing to raise the calldata floor cost from 64/64 to 96/96 gas per byte.
Motivation
The 21,000-gas ETH transfer anchors both the execution and bandwidth dimensions of a block. A transfer-full block carries an irreducible byte density (~0.0105 bytes/gas) that no pricing instrument can touch without charging more than 21,000 gas. At the current floor of 64 gas/byte (set by EIP-7976), a pure-calldata block has a density of
1/64 ≈ 0.0156bytes/gas — roughly 1.49× the transfer anchor — making pure calldata the binding bandwidth constraint on the gas limit.What it does
Raising the floor to
F* = ceil(1 / 0.01052) = 96gas/byte brings pure-calldata density to1/96 ≈ 0.0104bytes/gas, at or just below the transfer anchor. This:Specification
Updates
TOTAL_COST_FLOOR_PER_TOKENfrom 16 to 24 (96 gas/byte), retaining the EIP-7623 token abstraction for consistency.STANDARD_TOKEN_COSTstays at 4.