From c4661020930b618365a19df028e5c98fa4cd63a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MariusVanDerWijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:47:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] core: fixed costPerStateByte

---
 core/evm.go | 22 +---------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/evm.go b/core/evm.go
index 27096ab45e..de43bbbe4a 100644
--- a/core/evm.go
+++ b/core/evm.go
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ package core
 
 import (
 	"math/big"
-	"math/bits"
 
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/consensus"
@@ -91,26 +90,7 @@ func CostPerStateByte(header *types.Header, config *params.ChainConfig) uint64 {
 	if !config.IsAmsterdam(header.Number, header.Time) {
 		return 0
 	}
-	const (
-		blocksPerYear  uint64 = 2_628_000 // 7200 * 365
-		offset         uint64 = 9578
-		significantBts uint64 = 5
-	)
-	numerator := header.GasLimit * blocksPerYear
-	denominator := uint64(2) * params.TargetStateGrowthPerYear
-	raw := (numerator + denominator - 1) / denominator
-	shifted := raw + offset
-	// bit length of shifted
-	bitLen := uint64(64 - bits.LeadingZeros64(shifted))
-	var shift uint64
-	if bitLen > significantBts {
-		shift = bitLen - significantBts
-	}
-	quantized := (shifted >> shift) << shift
-	if quantized > offset {
-		return quantized - offset
-	}
-	return 1
+	return 1174 // Fixed cost for devnet-4
 }
 
 // NewEVMTxContext creates a new transaction context for a single transaction.