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EIP proposal, relevant to gas limit raising discussions:

Increase calldata cost, perhaps back to the original 68 per nonzero byte, now that we have EIP-4844 blobs for data-heavy use cases.

It would address the worst-case data issues and add breathing room to raise not just gas limit but also blob count target.

Is the explanation that calldata can still lead to state size growing at too great of a rate even with EIP-4844 blobs, so by making calldata more expensive, we directly limit state size from growing too quickly when we raise the block gas limit?

Vim hotkey advocate. Co-founder @onchainden. Guardian @safe.

Calldata doesn't add to state size, but it does add to history-storing node size and (more importantly) to sync time and real-time node bandwidth reqs.

Thanks. That makes more sense. The problems this is solving is not state size increase, but the ones you just outlined.

I was scratching my head there for a minute.