All Reviewers Have Approved; Performing Automatic Merge...

All Reviewers Have Approved; Performing Automatic Merge...

This proposal is a strong and well-motivated step toward scalable execution-layer performance. Block-Level Access Lists strike a pragmatic balance between full witnesses and transaction-level access lists by providing deterministic, post-execution state information with manageable overhead. The ability to enable parallel disk reads, parallel transaction execution, executionless state updates, and faster state root computation makes BALs particularly compelling as Ethereum moves toward multi-core clients and more execution-light validation models.

The recent change to retain BALs for the weak subjectivity period is especially important, as it aligns BAL availability with Ethereum’s security assumptions and improves robustness for long-offline nodes. While client complexity and storage considerations are real trade-offs, the measured size overhead appears reasonable given the substantial gains in sync performance, validation efficiency, and future compatibility with Verkle trees and statelessness research. Overall, this EIP meaningfully advances Ethereum’s long-term execution roadmap without altering EVM semantics.