{
  "id": 4762,
  "title": "EIP-4762: Statelessness gas cost changes",
  "status": "Draft",
  "type": "Standards Track",
  "category": "Core",
  "summary": "This restructures how gas costs work to prepare for stateless clients - nodes that can validate blocks without storing the entire blockchain state. The changes ensure gas costs accurately reflect the new computational model.",
  "impacts": [
    "Indirect benefits through improved network decentralization and faster node syncing, but gas cost changes may affect some transaction patterns.",
    "Some operations may have different gas costs, requiring optimization of smart contracts for the new stateless execution model.",
    "Need to update gas estimation for transactions affected by the new cost model, but most operations remain similar.",
    "Major updates needed for gas estimation, transaction simulation, and stateless proof generation. Block explorers need stateless verification capabilities.",
    "May need to adjust for new gas costs in settlement transactions and state access patterns.",
    "Can run much lighter nodes using stateless validation, dramatically reducing storage and syncing requirements while maintaining security.",
    "Minimal impact as this primarily affects execution layer gas metering and state access patterns.",
    "Major implementation work required for new gas metering model, stateless execution environment, and witness data handling.",
    "Enables stateless client operation with dramatically faster sync",
    "Reduces storage requirements for node operators",
    "Improves network decentralization through lower barriers",
    "Foundation for Verkle tree state transition"
  ],
  "discussion_url": "https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-4762-statelessness-gas-cost-changes/8714",
  "source_markdown_url": "https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-4762.md",
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