Ethlabs Urges Developers to Delay Hoodi Fork Date Until Audit Results and Impacts Are Clear

Ethlabs is urging Ethereum developers to hold off on revising Glamsterdam’s specifications or setting a Hoodi testnet fork date until audits are released and the effects are clear.

The Ethereum Foundation commissioned ChainSecurity and Dedaub to review EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, which change gas costs and accounting. Results are expected before Nov. 16. An Ethereum core developers testing meeting (ACD) is scheduled for that date and will include a public question-and-answer session. An execution-layer meeting on Nov. 19 is expected to discuss the audit results and could decide whether to revise the specifications.

Ethlabs warns that the proposed changes could affect smart contracts already deployed on Ethereum. Glamsterdam aims to raise Ethereum’s per-block gas limit from 60 million to 200 million. The group says changes to gas costs could affect contracts and tools built around fixed operation costs. It also warned that a contract might see more gas remaining after an internal call reverts, potentially causing it to misjudge whether the call failed because it ran out of gas.

Ethereum developers have postponed the Hoodi activation and have not set a replacement date. The earlier Hoodi testnet postponement followed concerns about gas-security effects on deployed contracts.