PANews reported on May 18 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented on the Ethereum state storage issue, stating that even if users store the data themselves, the blockchain only stores hashes, and transactions only contain proofs, there is still a need to store and update data used to verify proofs, and this data eventually becomes almost as large as the state itself. Vitalik said that there are solutions to the problem, but they involve a large number of components, and all of them require trade-offs compared to the current Ethereum.

Previously, DeFi content writer marilyn100x.eth stated that Ethereum has a state storage problem, where developers pay a one-time fee to write data, while nodes bear the storage costs in the long term. However, EIP-8037 is not a time-weighted rent or ongoing fee, but rather significantly increases the upfront gas costs for new contracts, accounts, and storage slots in order to control state growth during scaling.