Ethereum Foundation Issues Caution Ahead of Glamsterdam, Saying Some Tools Might Stop Working

The Ethereum Foundation warned that some wallets, indexers and gas estimators could stop working correctly as a result of the changes to the gas model included in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.

The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol DevOps team communicated that any tool that relies on a fixed maximum gas limit “will break” and will need to be updated before the fork reaches mainnet.

The Ethereum Foundation urged developers to test their systems on Plataberget, a public testnet launched on August 13 and designed to run for several months. According to the upgrade tracker Forkcast, the Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on that network on Thursday, ahead of its deployment on the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets.

The central change comes from EIP-8037, which will introduce a separate state gas dimension for operations that generate new state on the network. Under this scheme, a standard ETH transfer to an existing account will still cost 21,000 gas, but sending ETH to a new account will involve an additional state gas charge.

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