# BEP-312: Announce EIP-6049 Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT **URL:** \ **Category:** BEP\ **Created:** [October 30, 2023, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.bnbchain.org/t/bep-312-announce-eip-6049-deprecate-selfdestruct/2129 "2023-10-30T07:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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## 1. Summary As part of Shanghai upgrade, EIP-6049: Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT is required to be announced in the BSC community. ## 2. Abstract This EIP deprecates the `SELFDESTRUCT` opcode and warns against its use. A breaking change to this functionality is likely to come in the future. ## 3. Motivation Discussions about how to change `SELFDESTRUCT` are ongoing. But there is a strong consensus that _something_ will change. ## 4. Specification Documentation of the `SELFDESTRUCT` opcode is updated to warn against its use and to note that a breaking change may be forthcoming. ## 5. Rationale As time goes on, the cost of doing something increases, because any change to `SELFDESTRUCT` will be a breaking change. The Ethereum Blog and other official sources have not provided any warning to developers about a potential forthcoming change. ## 6. Backwards Compatibility This EIP updates non-normative text in the Yellow Paper. No changes to clients is applicable. ## 7. Security Considerations None. ## 8. License The content is licensed under [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). ## 9. Reference William Entriken (@fulldecent), “EIP-6049: Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT,” Ethereum Improvement Proposals, no. 6049, November 2022. [Online serial]. Available: [EIP-6049: Deprecate SELFDESTRUCT](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6049).