Ethereum Foundation warns that the upgrade of Glamsterdam will adjust the Gas model, and some tools may face the risk of becoming ineffective
2026-08-18 13:29:13
According to CoinMeta, the Ethereum Foundation’s devops team has issued a warning that the Glamsterdam upgrade will adjust Ethereum’s gas model, which may result in functional abnormalities in some wallets, indexers, and gas estimators. Tools that rely on hardcoded maximum gas limits are at risk of becoming ineffective. EIP-8037 will introduce an independent gas state dimension; transfers to existing accounts will still incur a fee of 21,000 gas, while transfers to new accounts will incur an additional gas fee. The Ethereum Foundation recommends that developers complete system testing on the public testnet Plataberget. The Glamsterdam fork plan will be activated on Thursday of this week on the Plataberget testnet, followed by deployment to the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets, before finally going live on the mainnet. This upgrade includes the separation of proposers from builders, a block-level access list, and an increase in the size limits for contracts and initialization code.
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