EIP-0000 Preferential Gas Costs for Native ETH Operations

Discussion topic for Preferential Gas Costs for Native ETH Operations (early draft) Update Log 2026-08-05: Initial draft published External Reviews None as of 2026-08-05. Outstanding Issues Final confirmation of the 0.75 factor by client teams after benchmarking against concurrent state-access changes (e.g. EIP-8038) Whether the factor should also apply to SELFBALANCE and/or CALLVALUE (currently left open) Residual value handling in SELFDESTRUCT (if still relevant) Context This is the second proposal aiming to increase ETH’s role as a “digital reserve currency”. One way to achieve this is to m