BlockBeats News, May 18th, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented on the Ethereum state storage issue, stating that even though users store the data themselves, the blockchain only stores the hash, and transactions only include proofs, it is still necessary to store and update the data used to verify the proofs, which eventually is almost as large as the state itself; Vitalik stated that there are solutions to the issue, but they involve a significant number of components and require trade-offs compared to the current Ethereum.

Prior to this, DeFi content creator marilyn100x.eth stated that Ethereum faces a state storage problem, where developers make a one-time payment to write data, and nodes bear the long-term storage costs, but EIP-8037 is not a time-weighted rent or continuous fee; instead, it significantly increases the initial gas cost for new contracts, accounts, and storage slots to control state growth during the scaling process.