fix(execute): use configurable gas limit for funding txs (EIP-8037) by qu0b · Pull Request #2603 · ethereum/execution-specs

qu0b · 2026-03-31T19:44:55Z

Summary

On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 × cost_per_state_byte)
The execute remote framework's default 21000 gas limit for funding transactions causes intrinsic gas too low errors during test setup
This PR uses the existing --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit flag for all funding transactions, not just refund/cleanup ones

Changes

contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding tx
pre_alloc.py: Thread sender_fund_refund_gas_limit through to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions

Usage

uv run execute remote "tests/amsterdam/" \
  --fork Amsterdam \
  --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 \
  --chain-id <id> --rpc-endpoint <url> --rpc-seed-key <key>

Note: The deterministic deployer's pre-signed deploy tx (100K gas) also fails on EIP-8037 networks since contract creation costs 131K+ state gas. Networks should pre-deploy the factory at 0x4e59b44847b379578588920ca78fbf26c0b4956c in genesis using additional_preloaded_contracts in Kurtosis.

Test plan

Verified execute remote works against bal-devnet-3 Kurtosis network (geth)
11 EIP-8037 tests pass, remaining failures are real client divergences

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fselmo · 2026-03-31T22:27:39Z

Thanks @qu0b, I ended up testing and I found a few more spots where there were discrepancies. We're revisiting the branch hierarchy for devnets and eips. A week ago I would say we should target eips/amsterdam/eip-8037 with this but this may very well have changed. Tagging @spencer-tb here for a sanity check as the static lint fails here are due to a necessary rebase or merge with latest forks/amsterdam which would also yield some conflicts here with these changes.

@spencer-tb, what's the recommended path for this change? Still PR against the eips branch? And should we rebase that one and then remerge it to the devnet branch? 👀

fselmo · 2026-03-31T22:37:16Z

        dest="sender_fund_refund_gas_limit",
        type=Wei,
-        default=21_000,
+        default=200_000,


I figured we should bump the default here since this is already targeting a branch with EIP-8037 in it. This should make it so we don't have to pass the updated gas limit via the flag for these tests to properly run but I think this is a good configuration change to make anyhow. Both of these seem like complementary changes to me.

qu0b · 2026-04-01T13:11:58Z

Thanks @fselmo! Applied your suggestion — bumped the default to 200k in sender.py:59. Also found and fixed the remaining spots:

pre_alloc.py:251 — funding_gas_limit default 21k → 200k
pre_alloc.py:901 — per-test refund now uses sender_fund_refund_gas_limit instead of hardcoded 21k
execute_recover.py:27 — recovery refund 21k → 200k

Re: branch targeting — happy to rebase onto whatever branch you and @spencer-tb decide. The changes are small enough to cherry-pick either way.

On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000

- sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

fselmo · 2026-04-01T17:30:38Z

Sounds good @qu0b. I am targeting the eip branch here now as this is the right approach. I rebased as well as this was a more updated branch. Still looks like it's not the most up to date as we still have some unrelated lint errors. I'm not sure how far along the rebase process for eips branches are atm.

fselmo

This lgtm. As the linting issues are unrelated, we should be OK to merge this and resolve those via a future rebase.

spencer-tb · 2026-04-01T18:10:42Z

Thanks @fselmo!! Just fixed the lint errors in: #2612

…thereum#2603) * fix(execute): use --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit for all funding txs On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 * chore: additional fixes for execute remote funds w/ higher gas limits * fix: bump all gas limits to 200k for EIP-8037 state creation costs - sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Felipe Selmo <fselmo2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…2603) * fix(execute): use --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit for all funding txs On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 * chore: additional fixes for execute remote funds w/ higher gas limits * fix: bump all gas limits to 200k for EIP-8037 state creation costs - sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Felipe Selmo <fselmo2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…thereum#2603) * fix(execute): use --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit for all funding txs On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 * chore: additional fixes for execute remote funds w/ higher gas limits * fix: bump all gas limits to 200k for EIP-8037 state creation costs - sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Felipe Selmo <fselmo2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…2603) * fix(execute): use --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit for all funding txs On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 * chore: additional fixes for execute remote funds w/ higher gas limits * fix: bump all gas limits to 200k for EIP-8037 state creation costs - sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Felipe Selmo <fselmo2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…thereum#2603) * fix(execute): use --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit for all funding txs On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 * chore: additional fixes for execute remote funds w/ higher gas limits * fix: bump all gas limits to 200k for EIP-8037 state creation costs - sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Felipe Selmo <fselmo2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…2603) * fix(execute): use --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit for all funding txs On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 * chore: additional fixes for execute remote funds w/ higher gas limits * fix: bump all gas limits to 200k for EIP-8037 state creation costs - sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Felipe Selmo <fselmo2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…thereum#2603) * fix(execute): use --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit for all funding txs On EIP-8037 networks, simple value transfers to new accounts require more than 21000 gas due to GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT state gas (112 * cpsb). The default Transaction gas_limit of 21000 causes 'intrinsic gas too low' errors during test setup. Changes: - contracts.py: Use 200000 gas for deterministic factory deployer funding - pre_alloc.py: Pass sender_fund_refund_gas_limit to Alloc and use it for simple EOA funding transactions Usage: --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit 200000 * chore: additional fixes for execute remote funds w/ higher gas limits * fix: bump all gas limits to 200k for EIP-8037 state creation costs - sender.py: bump --sender-fund-refund-gas-limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: bump funding_gas_limit default 21000 → 200000 - pre_alloc.py: use configurable gas limit for per-test refund txs - execute_recover.py: bump recovery refund gas limit 21000 → 200000 EIP-8037 charges GAS_NEW_ACCOUNT (112 × cost_per_state_byte = 131488) for transfers to new accounts, making 21000 gas insufficient for all funding, refund, and recovery transactions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Felipe Selmo <fselmo2@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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fselmo changed the base branch from devnets/bal/3 to eips/amsterdam/eip-8037 April 1, 2026 16:04

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