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Dip 160

dip: 160 title: EXP cost increase author: Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin) Digitalia editing author: Cosimo Constantinos cosimo@juro.net, et al. type: Standards Track category: Core status: Final created: 2016-10-20 Created for Digitalia: 2025-01-07

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. DIP-160 issue and discussion: https://github.com/digitalia/DIPs/issues/160