Resource-based intrinsic transaction gas

The five-minute read

One action, walked through

1. Open EIP 2780 and read the status line before the examples.
2. Write down the rule in one sentence. A fair version of that sentence is: This EIP decomposes the flat 21,000 intrinsic transaction cost into explicit primitives, each priced to match the resources a transaction actually consumes.
3. Name the object that changes: ETH.
4. Ask what an old client, an old contract, or an offline counterparty does. If the document is silent, the silence is part of the design.

The argument, unpacked

What has to be true

• You are implementing EIP 2780 at the status the text itself states: Review.
• The object that has to change is ETH. A neighbouring document with a similar name is not this one.
• Status in the header is not adoption.

What happened after the paper

The source marks this review. It is not a live consensus rule just because it has a number. Later documents can narrow, replace, or ignore this one. Cite the number you mean.

What to check before you use the idea

• What must an implementation of Resource-based intrinsic transaction gas accept, and what may it ignore?
• Is this consensus, peer policy, or an application interface?
• Which names does the text pin down: ETH?

Terms

EIP 2780

The public text titled Resource-based intrinsic transaction gas.

Review

The document's own label for how finished the text is. It is not a market fact.

The problem the paper names

An interface that is only a name in a repository will be re-implemented differently by every team, which is how shared contracts break.

What the design proposes

• This EIP decomposes the flat 21,000 intrinsic transaction cost into explicit primitives, each priced to match the resources a transaction actually consumes.
• A plain ETH transfer to an existing account remains at 21,000 execution gas, and contract-creation transactions cost the same whether or not they carry value.
• Transactions that create new accounts or interact with EIP-7702 pay the additional runtime costs they incur.

How the mechanism is specified

• Taken from the specification, the next constraint is: A plain ETH transfer to an existing account remains at 21,000 execution gas, and contract-creation transactions cost the same whether or not they carry value.
• Locate ETH in EIP 2780 and apply it to one transaction or call.
• Then check the failure the class of rule always has: a node that did not upgrade, a reverted call, a replayed signature, or a peer that does not speak the message.

What this page does not treat as proven

• This document does not set a fee, a valuation, or a security proof.
• Status in the header is not adoption.
• The source marks this review. It is not a live consensus rule just because it has a number.

Why a venture studio still reads it

Use EIP 2780 when a pitch says 'Resource-based intrinsic transaction gas' without saying whether the rule is consensus, policy, or an interface. The number is the citation. The pitch is not.