Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Delay Reveals a Smart Contract Gas Risk
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Ethereum postponed Glamsterdam’s October 26 Hoodi activation and canceled the testnet’s planned 200 million gas limit increase. EIP-8037 separates execution gas from state-creation gas, potentially changing how deployed contracts handle failed calls. ChainSecurity identified 13 real-world examples requiring investigation, with responsible disclosure still underway. Developers should review gas-dependent failure checks, fixed gas allowances and external calls that permanently update contract records . Ethereum’s postponed Glamsterdam upgrade has exposed a compatibility problem in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM): smart contracts that rely on gas exhaustion to reject unsafe transactions may behave differently under proposed changes to state-creation costs.
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