The Ethereum Foundation postponed Glamsterdam’s Hoodi activation so developers can assess whether EIP-8037’s revised gas accounting could alter deployed contracts, and no replacement date has been announced.
The activation had been scheduled for 1:42:48 p.m. ET (17:42:48 UTC) Monday, Oct. 26. The Foundation’s plan paired it with Amsterdam execution-layer and Gloas consensus-layer changes and a Hoodi gas-limit increase to 200 million gas. EconoTimes previously covered the planned Hoodi activation. The postponement changes the network’s future schedule; it does not alter Hoodi blocks already recorded.
EIP-8037 changes how gas is assigned to operations that add data to Ethereum’s state. The Ethereum Foundation says the proposal accounts for that work separately, as gas capacity expands. Its Aug. 24 review of historical mainnet transactions found a small number of contracts that could break or perform worse without updates, while most were unaffected. The Foundation said a gas-limit increase could address most of the flagged cases.
The review is focused on how the change may affect contracts already deployed. ChainSecurity describes scenarios in which a different gas balance after a failed call could allow a contract to run additional error-handling steps. The ACDE #248 agenda also listed EIP-8038, which changes state-access costs, among security topics; the Foundation’s postponement announcement named EIP-8037 as the reason for its review.
The Foundation said mainnet users and Ether (ETH) holders do not need to take action because of the Hoodi delay. It advised Hoodi node and validator operators to check guidance for both execution- and consensus-layer clients.
Before the postponement, the ACDE agenda listed Dec. 1, Dec. 8 and Dec. 9 as possible mainnet dates. It made setting a date at the following consensus call conditional on Hoodi going smoothly, so those options were not confirmed. The Foundation said it will publish a revised Hoodi schedule later.
