EF blog: Glamsterdam repricing impact
. EIP-8037 raises and harmonizes the cost of new state (new accounts, new storage slots, deployed bytecode) and meters it separately; EIP-8038 raises the cost of `SSTORE`, `SLOAD`, cold account access and `EXTCODESIZE`/`EXTCODECOPY`. State operation gas was last adjusted in Berlin in 2021; the new schedule is derived from a performance target supporting roughly 3x base throughput and is a prerequisite for raising the gas limit further.
