EIPs/EIPS/eip-1014.md

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eip title author category type status created
1014 Skinny CREATE2 Vitalik Buterin (@vbuterin) Core Standards Track Draft 2018-04-20

Specification

Adds a new opcode at 0xf5, which takes 4 stack arguments: endowment, memory_start, memory_length, salt. Behaves identically to CREATE, except using sha3(msg.sender ++ salt ++ init_code)[12:] instead of the usual sender-and-nonce-hash as the address where the contract is initialized at.

Motivation

Allows interactions to (actually or counterfactually in channels) be made with addresses that do not exist yet on-chain but can be relied on to only possibly eventually contain code that has been created by a particular piece of init code. Important for state-channel use cases that involve counterfactual interactions with contracts.

Option 2

Use sha3(0xff ++ msg.sender ++ salt ++ init_code)[12:]

Rationale: ensures that addresses created with this scheme cannot collide with addresses created using the traditional sha3(rlp([sender, nonce])) formula, as 0xff can only be a starting byte for RLP for data many petabytes long.