Ethereum Co-Founder Proposes 16.77 Million Gas Cap to Combat Network Attacks
The post Ethereum Co-Founder Proposes 16.77 Million Gas Cap to Combat Network Attacks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. TLDR: EIP-7983 proposes a 16.77M gas cap to limit high-cost Ethereum transactions. Cap would block complex txs that consume entire block limits, reducing DoS risk. Rule to be hardcoded into Ethereum clients and enforced in the txpool. Change could pressure developers to streamline contract efficiency and logic. Ethereum developers are advancing a new proposal to set a firm ceiling on how much gas a single transaction can use. The move, led by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and researcher Toni Wahrstätter, aims to improve network stability and security. Their draft, EIP-7983, suggests capping transaction gas usage at 16.77 million, a figure that equates to 2^24. This change is intended to guard against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and improve transaction predictability. As discussions unfold, the broader community is now weighing the benefits of efficiency against concerns over developer flexibility. Ethereum Cap Designed to Prevent Network Abuse The proposal targets a known vulnerability where a single transaction could consume the full block gas limit. According to EIP-7983, this unrestricted usage risks overloading nodes, creating an uneven transaction load across the network. Limiting each transaction to 16.77 million gas seeks to prevent such bottlenecks. Wahrstätter and Buterin argue this cap would make Ethereum more resilient to spam-style DoS attacks. The current structure allows complex operations to dominate blocks, leaving little space for other transactions. By enforcing a ceiling, they believe block validation will become smoother and more predictable. Vitalik Buterin and Toni Wahrstätter have co-authored EIP-7983, a draft proposal to introduce a protocol-level cap on the maximum gas usage per transaction at 16.77 million (2^24). By implementing this limit, Ethereum can enhance its resilience against certain DoS vectors,… — Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) July 6, 2025 Besides mitigating abuse, the cap could benefit zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) and multi-threaded execution. Splitting transactions into smaller chunks makes…
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TLDR: EIP-7983 proposes a 16.77M gas cap to limit high-cost Ethereum transactions. Cap would block complex txs that consume entire block limits, reducing DoS risk. Rule to be hardcoded into Ethereum clients and enforced in the txpool. Change could pressure developers to streamline contract efficiency and logic. Ethereum developers are advancing a new proposal to set a firm ceiling on how much gas a single transaction can use. The move, led by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and researcher Toni Wahrstätter, aims to improve network stability and security. Their draft, EIP-7983, suggests capping transaction gas usage at 16.77 million, a figure that equates to 2^24. This change is intended to guard against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and improve transaction predictability. As discussions unfold, the broader community is now weighing the benefits of efficiency against concerns over developer flexibility. Ethereum Cap Designed to Prevent Network Abuse The proposal targets a known vulnerability where a single transaction could consume the full block gas limit. According to EIP-7983, this unrestricted usage risks overloading nodes, creating an uneven transaction load across the network. Limiting each transaction to 16.77 million gas seeks to prevent such bottlenecks. Wahrstätter and Buterin argue this cap would make Ethereum more resilient to spam-style DoS attacks. The current structure allows complex operations to dominate blocks, leaving little space for other transactions. By enforcing a ceiling, they believe block validation will become smoother and more predictable. Vitalik Buterin and Toni Wahrstätter have co-authored EIP-7983, a draft proposal to introduce a protocol-level cap on the maximum gas usage per transaction at 16.77 million (2^24). By implementing this limit, Ethereum can enhance its resilience against certain DoS vectors,… — Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) July 6, 2025 Besides mitigating abuse, the cap could benefit zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) and multi-threaded execution. Splitting transactions into smaller chunks makes…
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