EIP-8037 raises gas costs for creating persistent state data, causing immutable smart contracts with fixed gas budgets or gas introspection checks to run out of gas and potentially lock user funds permanently

The largest smart-contract blockchain and its native asset ETH, covering protocol upgrades, staking, fee economics and institutional adoption.

Programs stored on a blockchain that execute automatically when conditions are met, forming the building blocks of DeFi, NFTs, and most on-chain applications.