A new Ethereum proposal, co-written by Vitalik Buterin and Toni Wahrstter. aims to impose a maximum hard gas cap that a transaction can consume in a move, according to the developers, could strengthen the stability of the network and make the chain more viable for certain applications.
The proposal, EIP -7983, suggests limiting individual transactions to 16,777,216 gases (2²⁴) – a net change compared to the current design which technically allows a single transaction to consume the entirely in block gas limit.
From Monday, a single Ethereum transaction can consume as much gas as a whole block allows – a design choice that introduces several performance and safety challenges.
When only one transaction consumes almost all of the available gas, it disrupts the distribution of workloads on the network and tends to make the execution of blocks less effective.
Developers working on zero knowledge virtual machines (ZKVM) have struggled to deal with large transactions in parallel, often lacking in dividing work on several transactions instead.
And for parallel execution engines, the variable gas sizes introduce an imbalance between the treatment threads
Supporters say that the cap would simplify these points of pain.
“16 777 216 is well because it is easier to subdivide things, which potentially simplifies downstream engineering,” wrote a contributor in the Github thread. Others have argued that he was aligned with the longer term change from Ethereum to modularity and provability.
The new ceiling would require dividing certain important transactions, such as deployments of contracts, in small pieces. The authors of the proposal said that most of the real world activities are already falling below the limit and that on -board cases are minimal.
The EIP-7983 is based on previous initiatives for affairing resources, such as the EIP-7825, and indicates an increasing consensus according to which the base layer of Ethereum should apply more strict execution guarantees as it evolves.
The proposal remains in a status project and is now open to a broader examination of the communities.
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