A new proposal by Ethereum, in Vitalik Buterin and Toni Wahrstaetter co -authorship. Its objective is to impose a hard limit on the maximum gas that a transaction can consume in a movement, according to 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 gas (2²⁴), an acute change of current design that technically allows a single transaction to consume the entire block gas limit.
Until Monday, a single Ethereum transaction can consume both gas and allow a complete block, a design option that introduces several performance and safety challenges.
When a single transaction consumes almost all available gas, interrupts the distribution of workloads throughout the network and tends to make the block execution less efficient.
Developers working in virtual zero knowledge machines (ZKVM) have found that it is difficult to process large parallel transactions, often by dividing work into multiple transactions.
And for parallel execution engines, very variable gas sizes introduce an imbalance between processing threads
Proponents say the limit would simplify these weak points.
“16,777,216 is good because it makes it easier to subdivide things, potentially simplifying the subsequent engineering,” wrote a collaborator in Github’s thread. Others argued that Ethereum was aligned with the long -term change towards modularity and verification capacity.
The new roof would require dividing some large transactions, such as contract implementations, in smaller fragments. The authors of the proposal declared that most real world activities already fall well below the limit, and edge cases are minimal.
EIP-7983 is based on previous resource limit initiatives, such as EIP-7825, and indicates a growing consensus that the Ethereum base layer should impose more strict guarantees of execution as the scale.
The proposal remains in a state of draft and is now open for a broader community review.
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