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Nov 7, 2026

Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade gas changes could break smart contracts, developers warn

Prominent Ethereum developers are urging core developers to halt the Glamsterdam upgrade in its current form, warning that proposed EIP-8037 gas changes could break existing smart contracts holding user funds. Application teams have been asked to audit their own contracts as core developers cannot cover every project.

Nov 7, 20262 sources

Top claims

▪The planned October 26, 2026 activation of the Hoodi testnet with a 200 million gas-limit increase was postponed on October 22, 2026 pending resolution of security and gas accounting issues
▪On November 6, 2026, Ethereum Foundation developer Marius van der Wijden published an appeal asking application developers and auditors to evaluate eight gas invariants and report repair options for affected smart contracts
▪EIP-8037 raises gas costs for creating persistent state data, causing immutable smart contracts with fixed gas budgets or gas introspection checks to run out of gas and potentially lock user funds permanently

Topics

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)Ethereum upgrades Ethereum Smart contract audit Ethereum Glamsterdam Sepolia fork Smart contract vulnerabilities Ethereum roadmap Cryptocurrencies

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