An essential feature of EVM is that we can do transfers.
We need to implement them using the runtime which also has a transfer operation.

What should help is that EVM and Linera have the same semantics concerning accounts: Non-existent accounts have a default balance of zero.

One difference is that the type is U256 for Ethereum but u128 for Linera. But that should not be a problem since 1 ETH = 10^18 wei and 10^110 ETHs is an astronomic amount of money.