BlockBeats News, August 18th, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) reminded developers that the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will include a Gas model change, which may cause compatibility issues for some wallets, indexers, and Gas estimation tools.

The Ethereum Foundation Protocol Engineering Ops Team stated that any tool relying on hard-coded maximum Gas limits will be impacted and will need to be updated. The team advised developers to conduct early testing of their systems on the Plataberget public testnet, which will run for several months to prepare for the Glamsterdam upgrade.

According to the upgrade tracking platform Forkcast, Plataberget was launched on August 13th, while the Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to go live this Thursday, followed by deployments on the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets.

This upgrade involves the EIP-8037 proposal, which will introduce a separate "state Gas" dimension for creating a new blockchain state. After the upgrade, a regular ETH transfer to an existing account will still require 21,000 Gas, but sending ETH to a new account will incur additional state Gas fees.

The Ethereum Foundation stated that developers need to review those defaulting to "all ETH transfers only cost 21,000 Gas" or software that only uses a single Gas dimension to estimate transaction costs.

In addition to the Gas model adjustment, Glamsterdam will also include native proposals for Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS), block-level access lists, and improvements such as raising contract and initialization code size limits.