Data repricing, aligning data gas costs with actual burden
Strawmap Hegotá (2027) · data repricing
This re-sets the gas costs charged for the data that transactions carry and handle in blocks. It is work to correct the fee schedule so that it matches the burden the network actually bears.
Why it is needed
Gas is the fee Ethereum charges for computation and data handling. The fee schedule is based on values set in the early days, and although it has been adjusted several times since, it has not kept pace with changes in hardware and network conditions. As a result some operations are cheaper than their real burden and others are more expensive. Data is a particular problem. Data carried in a transaction must be received, verified and relayed by every node, and if this cost is not sufficiently reflected in gas, a single block full of data can slow down the entire network. To raise throughput by increasing the block gas limit, these gaps must be closed first, because a safe limit is set based on the heaviest case. EIP-7623, which raised calldata costs in the 2025 Pectra upgrade, was the first step, and in Glamsterdam, work on adjusting the prices of compute opcodes is under discussion. Data repricing is the item that, within this trend, re-prices the data side to match real costs. Which operations will change and by how much has not been decided yet, and the Hegotá assignment is also only the Strawmap's projection.