one New Ethereum suggestionsCo-authored by Vitalik Buterin and Toni Wahrstaetter. The goal is to apply hard gas to the maximum gas, and the deal can be consumed on the move, developers say it can enhance network stability and make the chain more feasible for certain applications.
The proposal EIP-7983 suggests limiting a single transaction to 16,777,216 gas (2²⁴) – with the drastic changes in the current design, which technically allows a single transaction to eliminate the entire block gas limit.
As of Monday, a single Ethereum transaction could consume as much gas as the entire block allows – a design choice for design that introduces several performance and security challenges.
When a single transaction consumes almost all of the available gas, it destroys the distribution of workloads across the network and often makes execution less efficient.
Developers working in Zero Knowledge Virtual Machines (ZKVMs) find it difficult to process large transactions in parallel, and are often used by default to distribute work across multiple transactions.
For parallel execution engines, drastically changing gas size introduces imbalance in processing threads
Proponents say the hat will simplify these pain points.
“16,777,216 is good because it makes segmenting things easier and has the potential to simplify downstream engineering,” one contributor wrote in a GitHub thread. Others argue that this is consistent with Ethereum’s long-term shift to modularity and proofability.
The new ceiling will require splitting some large transactions (such as contract deployment) into smaller sections. The authors of the proposal point out that most real-world activities are already well below the limit, while marginal cases are small.
EIP-7983 builds on earlier resource initiatives, such as EIP-7825, and shows a growing consensus that the foundation layer of Ethereum should implement stricter execution as it expands.
The proposal is still in draft status and can now be subject to wider community review.
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