diff --git a/crates/blockchain/mempool.rs b/crates/blockchain/mempool.rs
index d8b67c8f9b3..bdc31f8aaac 100644
--- a/crates/blockchain/mempool.rs
+++ b/crates/blockchain/mempool.rs
@@ -498,8 +498,15 @@ impl Mempool {
     }
 }
 
+/// Filter applied by the payload builder when querying pending transactions
+/// from the pool. NOT a mempool admission gate — all fields here are
+/// query-time filters used to pick block-includable transactions. Admission
+/// rules are enforced in `Blockchain::validate_transaction`.
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
 pub struct PendingTxFilter {
+    /// Minimum effective priority fee for a transaction to be surfaced to
+    /// the payload builder. This is a block-building filter, not an
+    /// admission check — see `crates/common/types/constants.rs::MIN_GAS_TIP`.
     pub min_tip: Option<u64>,
     pub base_fee: Option<u64>,
     pub blob_fee: Option<u64>,
diff --git a/crates/common/types/constants.rs b/crates/common/types/constants.rs
index 9a525f0a7ee..76d912531a8 100644
--- a/crates/common/types/constants.rs
+++ b/crates/common/types/constants.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ pub const MIN_BASE_FEE_PER_BLOB_GAS: u64 = 1; // Defined in [EIP-4844](https://e
 pub const BLOB_BASE_FEE_UPDATE_FRACTION: u64 = 3338477; // Defined in [EIP-4844](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844)
 pub const VERSIONED_HASH_VERSION_KZG: u8 = 0x01; // Defined in [EIP-4844](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844)
 /// Minimum tip, obtained from geth's default miner config (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/f750117ad19d623622cc4a46ea361a716ba7407e/miner/miner.go#L56)
+///
+/// Scope: this constant is consumed only by the RPC gas-price estimators
+/// (`eth_gasPrice`, `eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas`). It is NOT a mempool
+/// admission gate — zero-tip transactions are currently admitted.
+///
 /// TODO: This should be configurable along with the tip filter on https://github.com/lambdaclass/ethrex/issues/680
 pub const MIN_GAS_TIP: u64 = 1000000;
 
diff --git a/crates/common/types/transaction.rs b/crates/common/types/transaction.rs
index 81cb66417b1..59c026c39b9 100644
--- a/crates/common/types/transaction.rs
+++ b/crates/common/types/transaction.rs
@@ -452,10 +452,22 @@ impl Transaction {
             TxType::Privileged => self.gas_price(),
         };
 
-        Some(U256::saturating_add(
+        let base = U256::saturating_add(
             U256::saturating_mul(price, self.gas_limit().into()),
             self.value(),
-        ))
+        );
+
+        // EIP-4844 blob txs pay an additional `blob_gas * max_fee_per_blob_gas`
+        // upfront. Every peer client (geth, reth, nethermind, erigon, besu)
+        // includes this in the balance-sufficiency check.
+        if let Transaction::EIP4844Transaction(tx) = self {
+            let blob_gas = U256::from(crate::constants::GAS_PER_BLOB)
+                .saturating_mul(U256::from(tx.blob_versioned_hashes.len() as u64));
+            let blob_cost = blob_gas.saturating_mul(tx.max_fee_per_blob_gas);
+            return Some(base.saturating_add(blob_cost));
+        }
+
+        Some(base)
     }
 
     pub fn fee_token(&self) -> Option<Address> {
@@ -3717,4 +3729,39 @@ mod tests {
         let tx = Transaction::EIP1559Transaction(EIP1559Transaction::default());
         assert_eq!(tx.encode_to_vec().len(), EIP1559_DEFAULT_SERIALIZED_LENGTH);
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_cost_without_base_fee_eip4844_includes_blob_gas() {
+        // Regression test for mempool balance check: for EIP-4844 txs,
+        // cost_without_base_fee() MUST include blob_gas_used * max_fee_per_blob_gas.
+        // Every peer client (geth, reth, nethermind, erigon, besu) does this.
+        use crate::constants::GAS_PER_BLOB;
+
+        let max_fee_per_gas: u64 = 100;
+        let gas: u64 = 21_000;
+        let value = U256::from(7u64);
+        let max_fee_per_blob_gas = U256::from(50u64);
+        let blob_count: usize = 1;
+
+        let tx = Transaction::EIP4844Transaction(EIP4844Transaction {
+            max_fee_per_gas,
+            gas,
+            value,
+            max_fee_per_blob_gas,
+            blob_versioned_hashes: vec![H256::zero(); blob_count],
+            ..Default::default()
+        });
+
+        let got = tx.cost_without_base_fee().expect("cost is computable");
+
+        let gas_cost = U256::from(max_fee_per_gas) * U256::from(gas);
+        let blob_gas = U256::from(GAS_PER_BLOB) * U256::from(blob_count as u64);
+        let blob_cost = blob_gas * max_fee_per_blob_gas;
+        let expected = gas_cost + blob_cost + value;
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            got, expected,
+            "blob-gas term missing from cost_without_base_fee() for EIP-4844"
+        );
+    }
 }