- TRON’s latest proposal only allows complete SELFDESTRUCT deletions of contracts created and deleted within the same transaction.
- This will keep the contract intact and transfer the balance to the target address unless the same transaction is abandoned.
TRON proposes to activate TIP-6780 on mainnet. SELFDESTRUCT behavior for Ethereum’s EIP-6780 compliant network. TIP-6780, if approved, will apply changes already included in GreatVoyage v4.8.1 at the protocol level.
Listed as Proposition 94, complete deletion of contracts is limited to cases where contracts are created and destroyed within the same transaction. In all other cases, the contract remains on-chain, but its assets are moved to the target address. This update also sets the fixed energy cost for opcodes to 5,000.
A new discussion has been started regarding enabling v4.8.1 features to align SELFDESTRUCT behavior with Ethereum EIP-6780.
Main changes:
Deletion is only allowed in the same transaction as contract creation
Otherwise the contract will remain and only the balance will be transferred
Energy cost set… pic.twitter.com/GioeR7bLjf— TRON DAO (@trondao) March 13, 2026
TRON has tied this proposal to the previous deprecated path for SELFDESTRUCT, as outlined in TIP-652. The new plan moves further in that direction while maintaining closer compatibility. Ethereum.
According to the proposal, the changes would maintain the common pattern of contracts being created and automatically destroyed in a single transaction. This pattern explains nearly all of the SELFDESTRUCT-related internal transactions observed in TRON’s 2025 data sample. The network said 957,316 of 957,324 such transactions followed the same trading pattern.
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TRON’s proposal targets limited termination
The proposed rule causes the current execution frame to stop immediately when a SELFDESTRUCT is executed outside of the transaction that created the contract. However, your contract code, storage, and account will remain the same. Account assets (including: $TRXbet $TRXand TRC10 tokens are transferred to the selected target address instead.
If the beneficiary is the contract itself, no assets are burned in such cases and there is no net change in the balance. In contrast, if SELFDESTRUCT occurs in the same transaction as contract creation, behavior such as account data deletion and balance transfers will remain the same.
The proposal states that a contract will only be counted as newly created if the deployment is successful through CREATE, CREATE2, or similar methods within the same transaction. This change does not change TRON’s account activation rules.
Contracts that rely on redeployment to the same address via CREATE2 after SELFDESTRUCT will no longer work as intended unless the destruction occurs in the same transaction as the creation. Furthermore, the pattern of relying on SELFDESTRUCT to delete accounts or write assets changes outside of those limited cases.
On-chain analysis published by TRON showed limited exposure to the ecosystem. There were very few contracts containing the SELFDESTRUCT opcode, few held assets, and none of the reviewed groups performed actual SELFDESTRUCT transactions.
Previously CNF outlined TRON’s AI push was made possible as the network introduced an on-chain AI bank through AINFT. The system allows autonomous agents to use x402 payments and 8004 IDs to make payments, manage assets, and access DeFi.
