Ethereum Price Faces Glamsterdam Test as 3X Network Speed Threatens Smart Contracts
Ethereum price is starting to stabilize, as the network’s next major upgrade puts its core economic assumptions under scrutiny. The dip is minor. The question hanging over it isn’t.
The Ethereum Foundation’s candidate Glamsterdam schedule aims to triple base-layer throughput by repricing gas to match actual resource consumption, but the repricing hits state-growing operations hardest.
EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, both still sitting in formal Review status, model a scenario where a 200 million gas limit pushes annual state growth to roughly 387 GiB, enough to blow past a cited 650 GiB performance threshold within a year. This is not a hypothetical stress test.
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