The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade will adjust the Gas pricing for state operations, requiring fixes to contracts with hardcoded Gas assumptions.

BlockBeats News, August 26th, the Ethereum Foundation team released the Glamsterdam upgrade Gas repricing impact assessment. This upgrade includes two changes: EIP-8037 and EIP-8038. The former increases and standardizes the cost of creating a new state (including new accounts, new storage slots, and bytecode deployment), while the latter increases the cost of state access operations (SSTORE, SLOAD, cold account access, etc.), making Gas prices more accurately reflect actual resource consumption.

State operation Gas pricing has not been adjusted since the 2021 Berlin hard fork, while the Ethereum state scale has grown significantly. The recent Gas limit increase has further accelerated this growth. The new pricing is based on performance goals that support about a threefold increase in base throughput and is a necessary prerequisite for continuing to raise the Gas limit in the future.

The team evaluated the actual impact by replaying historical mainnet transactions, categorizing all transactions into four types:

Most transactions are not affected at all;

Some transactions still succeed, but details such as Gas usage have changed;

Some contracts were exhausted under the original Gas limit but can complete after the limit increase;

A very small number of contracts may still fail even with a significant increase in the Gas limit.

The last category typically relies on hard-coded Gas assumptions. Developers can query whether contracts are affected and verify fixes on the Platåberget testnet. Regular users do not need to take any action, as updated wallets and infrastructure will handle the changes automatically.