diff --git a/actors/evm/tests/basic.rs b/actors/evm/tests/basic.rs
index be57a4fb7..23a43159e 100644
--- a/actors/evm/tests/basic.rs
+++ b/actors/evm/tests/basic.rs
@@ -202,3 +202,28 @@ fn test_push_last_byte() {
 
     util::invoke_contract(&rt, &[]);
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn mcopy() {
+    let bytecode = hex::decode(include_str!("contracts/MCOPYTest.hex")).unwrap();
+    mcopy_test(bytecode);
+}
+
+fn mcopy_test(bytecode: Vec<u8>) {
+    let contract = Address::new_id(100);
+
+    let rt = util::init_construct_and_verify(bytecode, |rt| {
+        rt.actor_code_cids.borrow_mut().insert(contract, *EVM_ACTOR_CODE_ID);
+        rt.set_origin(contract);
+    });
+
+    // invoke contract
+
+    let mut solidity_params = vec![];
+
+    solidity_params.append(&mut hex::decode("73358055").unwrap()); // function selector, "optimizedCopy(bytes)"
+    solidity_params.append(&mut "testdata".as_bytes().to_vec());
+
+    let result = util::invoke_contract(&rt, &solidity_params);
+    assert_eq!(U256::from_big_endian(&result), U256::from(0));
+}
diff --git a/actors/evm/tests/contracts/MCOPYTest.hex b/actors/evm/tests/contracts/MCOPYTest.hex
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..72db0fa73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actors/evm/tests/contracts/MCOPYTest.hex
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
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diff --git a/actors/evm/tests/contracts/MCOPYTest.sol b/actors/evm/tests/contracts/MCOPYTest.sol
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..21e0ed397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actors/evm/tests/contracts/MCOPYTest.sol
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+pragma solidity ^0.8.26;
+
+contract MCOPYTest {
+    function optimizedCopy(bytes memory data) public pure returns (bytes memory) {
+        bytes memory result = new bytes(data.length);
+        assembly {
+            let length := mload(data) // Get the length of the input data
+            let source := add(data, 0x20) // Point to the start of the data (skip the length)
+            let destination := add(result, 0x20) // Point to the start of the result memory (skip the length)
+
+            // Use MCOPY opcode directly for memory copying
+            // destination: destination memory pointer
+            // source: source memory pointer
+            // length: number of bytes to copy
+            mcopy(destination, source, length)
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+
+}