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EIP-160: EXP cost increase

Authors Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin)
Created 2016-10-20

Table of Contents

Hard fork

Spurious Dragon

Parameters

  • FORK_BLKNUM: 2,675,000
  • CHAIN_ID: 1

Specification

If block.number >= FORK_BLKNUM, increase the gas cost of EXP from 10 + 10 per byte in the exponent to 10 + 50 per byte in the exponent.

Rationale

Benchmarks suggest that EXP is currently underpriced by a factor of about 4–8.

References

  1. EIP-160 issue and discussion: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/160

Citation

Please cite this document as:

Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin), "EIP-160: EXP cost increase," Ethereum Improvement Proposals, no. 160, October 2016. [Online serial]. Available: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-160.