Ethereum delays Glamsterdam test after security devs flag risk to existing contracts
Ethereum developers have postponed the 'Glamsterdam' network upgrade to investigate potential security risks identified by ChainSecurity. The concerns involve how new gas accounting rules might affect existing smart contracts and their failure-handling mechanisms.
Why it matters
As Ethereum evolves, ensuring that protocol upgrades do not break existing decentralized applications is critical for maintaining the stability and security of the broader crypto ecosystem.
The upgrade was due to activate on Oct. 26 at 17:42:48 UTC. Developers postponed it during Thursday's All Core Devs Execution meeting to investigate how a proposed change to Ethereum's gas accounting interacts with contracts already running on the main network.
The concern centers on EIP-8037, which changes how Ethereum charges for creating new records in its database. The proposal is intended to limit the growth of that database as Ethereum increases the number of transactions its network can process.
Security firm ChainSecurity published an analysis on Oct. 13 showing that the change, combined with EIP-8038, could alter how contracts respond when another contract they call runs out of gas, or the fees used to pay the network’s operators.
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