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BEP-214: BASEFEE opcode #223

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BEP-214: BASEFEE opcode

Summary

Adds an opcode that gives the EVM access to the block's base fee. This BEP is dependent on BEP-213 (EIP-1559 with base fee of 0).

Abstract

Add a BASEFEE (0x48) that returns the value of the base fee of the current block it is executing in.

Status
This BEP is a draft. The code for this BEP has already been merged from upstream go-ethereum codebase into BSC node codebase. The work entails enabling EIP-3198 for BSC network configurations and perform hard fork.

Rationale

The intended use case would be for contracts to get the value of the base fee (introduced by EIP-1559 (BEP-213)).

Specification

Add a BASEFEE opcode at (0x48), with gas cost G_base.

Op Input Output Cost
0x48 0 1 2

Rationale

Gas cost

The value of the base fee is needed to process transactions. That means it's value is already available before running the EVM code.
The opcode does not add extra complexity and additional read/write operations, hence the choice of G_base gas cost.

Backwards Compatibility

There are no known backward compatibility issues with this opcode.

Test Cases

Nominal case

Assuming current block base fee is 7 wei.
This should push the value 7 (left padded byte32) to the stack.

Bytecode: 0x4800 (BASEFEE, STOP)

Pc Op Cost Stack RStack
0 BASEFEE 2 [] []
1 STOP 0 [7] []

Output: 0x
Consumed gas: 2

Security Considerations

The value of the base fee is not sensitive and is publicly accessible in the block header. There are no known security implications with this opcode.

Copyright

The content is licensed under CC0.

@Mister-EA Mister-EA closed this Apr 17, 2023
@Mister-EA Mister-EA deleted the BEP214-basefee branch April 17, 2023 07:59
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replaced by #227?

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Yes

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