EIP-160: EXP cost increase
Metadata
Status: FinalStandards Track: CoreCreated: 2016-10-20
Authors
Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin)
Links
Hard fork
Parameters
FORK_BLKNUM
: 2,675,000CHAIN_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
- EIP-160 issue and discussion: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/160