banteg's 11-byte EVM party trick: 16.78M gas projects to ~10TB of opcode trace

banteg · x · 2026-09-15

banteg breaks down an 11-byte EVM construction that expands memory then runs the cheapest possible loop, causing full-memory opcode traces to copy the same bytes millions of times — projecting 10TB of uncompressed trace at 16.78M gas.

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