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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is on cleanup duty. This time, it’s gas limits.
Vitalik and researcher Toni Wahrstätter proposed EIP-7983. It sets a max gas limit of 16.77 million for each transaction. That’s 2²⁴, for the nerds.
Why cap the gas?
Right now, one big transaction could suck up all the gas in a block.
That leaves room for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
It also makes fees unpredictable and clogs the network.
The cap spreads gas use more evenly across transactions.
It means better security and a smoother ride for Ethereum users.
zkVMs love it
The cap also helps zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) by nudging developers to split big transactions.
If someone tries to push a gas-heavy transaction, it gets booted before entering the block.
The cap won’t affect how miners and validators adjust overall block gas.
They can still play with the total block limit as usual.
But what about existing apps?
Buterin says most current DeFi apps and contracts already use less gas than this cap.
So, it won’t break things—unless you’re coding a gas-hungry monster.
This proposal builds on earlier efforts, like EIP-7825, to make gas usage less wild and more predictable.
Vitalik wants to simplify Ethereum
In May, Buterin said Ethereum’s getting too complicated.
He wants to streamline the protocol—less code, more power.
He’s also tinkering with new ideas like “pluralistic identity” to boost digital privacy.
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