TechFlow reports, according to The Block, that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP-7706), suggesting the introduction of a new gas category specifically for transaction calldata.
Currently, Ethereum transactions primarily involve two types of gas: one for execution, covering the computational effort required to process transactions, and another for storage, related to the cost of storing data "blobs." Buterin's proposal recommends establishing a third, dedicated gas type for calldata—the portion of data included in Ethereum transactions when calling smart contract functions.
Buterin also proposes implementing a system to simultaneously adjust fees across all three gas types—execution, blob, and calldata—to streamline the process. He suggests using a vector to manage the maximum base fees and priority fees for these gas types. This approach would enable the network to uniformly handle fee adjustments for all gas categories.
