🎉 Final Standards Track: Core

SIP-160: EXP cost increase

Authors	Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin)
Created	2016-10-20

Hard fork
Parameters
Specification
Rationale
References

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

SIP-160 issue and discussion: https://github.com/sila-chain/SIPs/issues/160

Citation

Please cite this document as:

Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin), "SIP-160: EXP cost increase," Sila Improvement Proposals, no. 160, October 2016. Available: https://sips.sila.org/SIPS/sip-160.