The biggest takeaway today: Ethereum has hit pause on the Glamsterdam hard fork, which was scheduled to activate on the Hoodi testnet on October 26.
$ETH The problem isn’t a coding error; it’s a blind spot in the rules. EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 aim to optimize Gas pricing, but they could change how Gas is refunded after failed external calls. In an extreme scenario, a malicious caller could use just-not-enough Gas to trick a contract into permanently recording a failed operation—potentially locking users out of retrying a transaction or claiming what they’re owed.
ChainSecurity has already found 13 real-world cases in existing contracts and is working with the project teams on responsible disclosure. The names have not been made public yet. The Ethereum Foundation has also confirmed that replaying transactions on mainnet showed that a small number of contracts could be affected. Most can be fixed by raising the Gas limit, but contracts with hard-coded Gas assumptions won’t be so easy to fix.
The upgrade was originally planned for mainnet in early December; now the timeline is up in the air again. The plan to raise Hoodi’s Gas limit to 200 million has also been delayed. Nodes and validators should follow the update announcements; ordinary mainnet users and ETH holders don’t need to do anything for now.
My take: upgrades need to move faster, but not at the cost of the security of existing applications. Catching this kind of “rule-level side effect” during the testnet phase is far cheaper than dealing with a permanent failure after mainnet launch. Trading short-term uncertainty for fewer problems down the road is worth it.
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