diff --git a/core/rawdb/accessors_snapshot.go b/core/rawdb/accessors_snapshot.go
index 5cea581fcd..2ae227c07a 100644
--- a/core/rawdb/accessors_snapshot.go
+++ b/core/rawdb/accessors_snapshot.go
@@ -112,6 +112,34 @@ func DeleteStorageSnapshot(db ethdb.KeyValueWriter, accountHash, storageHash com
 	}
 }
 
+// ReadBinTrieStem retrieves the flat-state stem blob for the given 31-byte
+// stem. Returns nil if no entry exists under this stem.
+//
+// The stem blob is a packed representation of the (offset, value) pairs at
+// that stem in the binary trie; callers must decode it to extract any
+// specific offset. See trie/bintrie and EIP-7864 for the on-trie layout.
+func ReadBinTrieStem(db ethdb.KeyValueReader, stem []byte) []byte {
+	data, _ := db.Get(binTrieStemKey(stem))
+	return data
+}
+
+// WriteBinTrieStem stores the flat-state stem blob for the given 31-byte
+// stem. The blob is written verbatim; encoding/decoding is the caller's
+// responsibility.
+func WriteBinTrieStem(db ethdb.KeyValueWriter, stem []byte, blob []byte) {
+	if err := db.Put(binTrieStemKey(stem), blob); err != nil {
+		log.Crit("Failed to store bintrie stem", "err", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// DeleteBinTrieStem removes the flat-state stem blob entry for the given
+// 31-byte stem.
+func DeleteBinTrieStem(db ethdb.KeyValueWriter, stem []byte) {
+	if err := db.Delete(binTrieStemKey(stem)); err != nil {
+		log.Crit("Failed to delete bintrie stem", "err", err)
+	}
+}
+
 // IterateStorageSnapshots returns an iterator for walking the entire storage
 // space of a specific account.
 func IterateStorageSnapshots(db ethdb.Iteratee, accountHash common.Hash) ethdb.Iterator {
diff --git a/core/rawdb/schema.go b/core/rawdb/schema.go
index 54c76143b4..abc0db24d7 100644
--- a/core/rawdb/schema.go
+++ b/core/rawdb/schema.go
@@ -126,6 +126,20 @@ var (
 	TrieNodeStoragePrefix = []byte("O") // TrieNodeStoragePrefix + accountHash + hexPath -> trie node
 	stateIDPrefix         = []byte("L") // stateIDPrefix + state root -> state id
 
+	// Binary-trie flat-state scheme. A stem is 31 bytes per EIP-7864 (the
+	// common prefix of the 32-byte tree key); the stored value is a packed
+	// blob containing the subset of 256 offset values that are populated
+	// for this stem (layout: 32-byte bitmap of present offsets, followed
+	// by N 32-byte values in offset order).
+	//
+	// Note: bintrie pathdb wraps the disk database in a table keyed by
+	// VerklePrefix ("v"), so this prefix is effectively nested inside "v"
+	// when used by pathdb. It is defined as a distinct top-level byte
+	// ("X") to prevent accidental collisions with other top-level
+	// namespaces (e.g. blockBodyPrefix "b") when the codec is ever used
+	// against an unwrapped database.
+	BinTrieStemPrefix = []byte("X") // BinTrieStemPrefix + stem(31B) -> stem blob
+
 	// State history indexing within path-based storage scheme
 	StateHistoryIndexPrefix           = []byte("m")   // The global prefix of state history index data
 	StateHistoryAccountMetadataPrefix = []byte("ma")  // StateHistoryAccountMetadataPrefix + account address hash => account metadata
@@ -297,6 +311,22 @@ func storageTrieNodeKey(accountHash common.Hash, path []byte) []byte {
 	return buf
 }
 
+// binTrieStemKey = BinTrieStemPrefix + stem (31 bytes).
+//
+// A bintrie stem is the common 31-byte prefix of the 32-byte tree key (see
+// EIP-7864). The stem blob stored under this key holds the packed set of
+// (offset, value) pairs at that stem, from which BasicData (offset 0),
+// CodeHash (offset 1), header storage (offsets 64-127), code chunks
+// (offsets 128-255) and main-storage slots can be extracted.
+func binTrieStemKey(stem []byte) []byte {
+	// Callers always pass a 31-byte stem. We allocate the exact size to
+	// avoid accidental aliasing with backing storage.
+	buf := make([]byte, len(BinTrieStemPrefix)+len(stem))
+	n := copy(buf, BinTrieStemPrefix)
+	copy(buf[n:], stem)
+	return buf
+}
+
 // IsLegacyTrieNode reports whether a provided database entry is a legacy trie
 // node. The characteristics of legacy trie node are:
 // - the key length is 32 bytes