Vitalik Baterin’s new proposal is looking for a 16.7m gas cap in Ethereum to revive in the transaction bloat
A New Ethereum proposalCo-authored by Vitalik Blerin and Toni Wahrsaetter. Purpose of imposing a tough cover with maximum gas A transaction can consume a transfer of developers who can strengthen network stability and make the chain more viable for certain applications.
The proposal, EIP-7983, suggests limiting individual transactions to 16,777,216 gas (2²⁴) —a sharp change from the current design that technically technically allows a single transaction to consume the full block gas limit.
Like Monday, a single Ethereum transaction can consume more gas as a whole block that provides – a design option that introduces many performance and security challenges.
When a single transaction consumes almost all available gas, it disrupts the distribution of workloads across the network and tends to make the block killing better.
Developers working on the zero-knowledge virtual machine (ZKVM) have difficulty processing large transactions in parallel, frequent defaults in dividing work into many transactions instead.
And for parallel implementation machines, wild different gas sizes characterize imbalance in the processing of threads
Proponents say the cover will simplify these points of the disease.
“The 16,777,216 is nice because it is easier to transform things, which potentially simplify the engineering flow,” a contributing to the Github thread wrote. Others argued that it aligned with the longer Ethereum transfer towards modularity and provability.
The new ceiling will require the splitting of some large transactions, such as contract expansion, into smaller chunks. The authors of the proposal stated that most real-world activities fall properly under the limit, and the side cases are minimal.
The EIP-7983 builds the earlier resource-bound initiatives, such as EIP-7825, and a signal of a growing consent that the base layer of Ethereum should implement a lighter guarantee of implementation as its scales.
The proposal remains in draft status and is now open for a broader community review.
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