EIP-8253: Upgrade pre-Spurious-Dragon accounts

Discussion topic for EIP-8253

This EIP is an alternative for EIP-7610: Revert creation in case of non-empty storage.

It bumps the nonce of all accounts on Mainnet which have: non-empty storage, zero nonce, no code, nonzero balance.

This gets rid of the EIP-7610 check as these accounts do not exist after this EIP, and they can also not be created anymore. Thus also removes this type of account (zero nonce, no code, but non-empty storage) from the state trie. This simplifies the Protocol.

Update Log

05/05/2026: Created draft PR