The Ethereum Foundation asked core developers not to decide how to proceed with the Glamsterdam upgrade until external audits of its proposed gas changes are made public. The recommendation followed four reports of deployed contracts that could break if EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 were implemented as written. Research cited by the foundation estimates that EIP-8037 would increase the cost of creating a new storage slot from roughly 22,100 to 110,020 gas, while EIP-8038 would change the cost of accessing and writing existing Ethereum state. The Hoodi testnet fork, initially scheduled for October 26, 2026, was postponed and had no new date as of November 10, 2026. Glamsterdam is intended to raise the gas limit from 60 million to 200 million, increasing layer-one capacity by roughly 3.3 times, but Ethlabs supports delaying the process until risks to live and immutable contracts are better understood.
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