A new Ethereum proposal, co-author of Vitalik Butterin and Toni Wahrstaetter. The goal of imposing a hard cap on the maximum gas that a transaction can consume in a movement that developers say could strengthen network stability and make the chain more viable for certain applications.
The proposal, EIP-7983, proposes to limit individual transactions to 16,777,216 gas (2²⁴) -A sharp change from the current design that technically allows a single transaction to consume the entire block gas limit.
From Monday, a single Ethereum transaction can consume as much gas as a whole block allows – a design choice that introduces more results and security challenges.
When a single transaction consumes almost all of the gas available, it disturbs the distribution of workloads across the network and tends to make blocking less effective.
Developers who work on zero-knowledge virtual machines (ZKVM) have found it difficult to treat large transactions in parallel, often as standard for dividing work across multiple transactions instead.
And for parallel execution engines introduce wildly different gas sizes imbalance across treatment threads
Supporters say the cap would simplify these pain points.
“16,777,216 is nice because it makes it easier to divide things, which potentially simplifies downstream technique,” wrote a contributor in the GitHub thread. Others argued that it was in line with Ethereum’s long -term shifts against modularity and evidence.
The new ceiling would require the division of some large transactions, such as contract installations, in smaller chunks. Authors of the proposal stated that most activities in the real world are already falling well below the border and edge cases are minimal.
EIP-7983 is based on previous resource-limiting initiatives, such as EIP-7825, signaling a growing consensus that Ethereum’s base layer should enforce tighter execution guarantees when scaling.
The proposal remains in the draft status and is now open to broader social review.
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