Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Upgrade Stalls on Gas-Change Risks to Live Contracts, Pending Audits
By Unchained
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The Ethereum Foundation has urged core developers to pause decisions on the Glamsterdam upgrade pending external audits, following reports that proposed gas-fee changes could break live contracts. Glamsterdam plans to raise the block gas limit to 200 million.
Key facts
- The Ethereum Foundation received four reports of deployed contracts that could break under proposed changes in EIP-8037 and EIP-8038.
- Audits by ChainSecurity and Dedaub are scheduled to conclude and present findings in mid-November before any specification revision or new Hoodi testnet date is decided.
- The Glamsterdam upgrade would increase the per-block gas limit from 60 million to 200 million.
Source excerpt · Unchained
Ethereum's next upgrade has no new testnet date while auditors check which live contracts its gas changes could break, and Ethlabs is recommending no decision until the results are clear. The post Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Upgrade Stalls on Gas-Change Risks to Live Contracts, Pending Audits appeared first on Unchained .