How large can EIP-8141's validation budget be? A mempool DoS benchmark
In briefHow large can EIP-8141's validation budget be? A mempool DoS benchmark
SummaryA technical discussion on the Ethereum Research forum by the Nethermind team. It notes that EIP-8141 caps unpaid validation gas at 100k, which is too low for privacy transfers and post-quantum signatures. The authors simulate a denial-of-service attack on a Nethermind node, flooding it with transactions that use the full validation budget and then fail, at caps from 100k to 500k. They report that with an in-client protection that pauses transaction validation during block processing, a cap of 300k is viable.