Originally published by ChainCatcher on November 10, 2026, at 17:48:41 UTC+8.
Ethereum research nonprofit Ethlabs has urged developers to wait for external audit findings before changing the Glamsterdam upgrade specifications or setting a fork date for the Hoodi testnet. According to Ethlabs, EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 involve changes to gas costs and accounting that could affect some deployed smart contracts. The final decision rests with Ethereum’s All Core Developers (ACD) meetings; neither a specification change nor a Hoodi date was reported as decided.
Two external audits commissioned by the Ethereum Foundation, from ChainSecurity and Dedaub, were expected to be published by November 16, 2026. An ACD testing meeting was scheduled to hold a public Q&A that day. The November 19 ACD execution-layer meeting was expected to discuss the audit results and could decide whether to revise the upgrade specifications.
Glamsterdam aims to raise Ethereum’s per-block gas limit from 60 million to 200 million. Ethlabs said gas-cost changes could affect contracts and tools with hard-coded operation costs. It also warned that accounting changes could produce unexpected behavior in some deployed contracts: after an internal call reverts, gasleft() could report more remaining gas, affecting how a contract determines whether the call failed because it ran out of gas.
