TREE NEWS reports: The Ethereum Foundation warned that the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will adjust the gas model, potentially breaking wallets, indexers, and gas estimation tools that rely on hardcoded maximum gas limits. Developers are urged to test on the Plataberget testnet. The upgrade includes EIP-8037, which introduces a separate State Gas dimension for new state operations.
Ethereum Foundation Warns Glamsterdam Upgrade May Break Wallets and Gas Tools
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This is a coordination risk, not a protocol failure: the gas-model change and the new State Gas dimension under EIP-8037 shift assumptions that much of the tooling layer has hardcoded for years. Wallets, indexers and gas estimators sit between users and the chain, so breakage there is felt long before any consensus issue. The Foundation's push to test on Plataberget signals that client teams expect the ecosystem to absorb the change ahead of mainnet. Whether dependent teams actually validate against the testnet, rather than waiting for breakage reports, is the open question.
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