Ethereum’s proposed throughput boost raises state-creation gas costs, while EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 remain within higher gas limits under replay testing. The dashboard defines potentially broken as a baseline-successful transaction that the candidate schedule failed to rescue at the tested 10-times ceiling.
That group includes out-of-gas cases and transactions that reverted for another reason after the new costs changed execution behavior. It is a counterfactual risk classification: users, wallets, contracts, builders, and fee markets can adapt before mainnet.
The much larger fixable cohort chiefly shifts work to frontends, bundlers and infrastructure providers, which must submit limits that reflect the new schedule. The harder cohort exposes assumptions that more top-level gas cannot cure, including fixed 2,300-gas stipends, hardcoded gas forwarded to internal calls, logic that branches on gasleft() and presigned transactions with fixed limits.
A public outreach report prioritizes versions of the eth-infinitism ERC-4337 EntryPoint and related smart-account stacks, including ZeroDev and Alchemy. It also identifies recurring counterfactual failures involving Across, Socket/Bungee, CoW Protocol, and 0x.
Immutable contracts make the toughest cases operationally expensive. A durable response can require a new EntryPoint, account, factory, or validator implementation followed by user migration. Other systems may be repaired through routing, batching, or gas-accounting changes.
ERC-4337 bundlers also need to distinguish the two classes: better simulation and higher submitted limits can resolve fixable failures, while a validation guard or internal gas assumption still reverts when the outer transaction receives more gas.
Who must update before Glamsterdam Wallets, RPC providers, indexers, node tooling, and gas estimators must incorporate the new rules, while frontends and bundlers need to stop relying on cached constants or limits calibrated to the old schedule.
Both EIPs require eth_estimateGas and related logic to account for the new costs. The Platåberget testnet announcement also warns that tools built around a hardcoded maximum gas limit or a single gas dimension will break.
A plain ETH transfer to an existing account can still use 21,000 gas. Sending value to an account that does not yet exist adds a state-creation charge at runtime, so software that assumes every transfer fits the old constant needs revision.
Regular users can keep familiar workflows if wallets and infrastructure update correctly. Meanwhile, developers carry the immediate burden of resimulating transactions, reviewing fixed stipends and internal call limits, and testing affected paths against the candidate schedule.
The Glamsterdam fork was scheduled for Aug. 20 and was reported live with the repricing schedule by Aug. 24. The published sequence moves from stable devnets to the long-lived Sepolia and Hoodi public testnets, then to mainnet, with the 2026 roadmap target still subject to testing.
Ethereum can price its way toward more throughput, but builders that encoded yesterday's gas assumptions now have a limited window to prove their contracts and tools can survive tomorrow's schedule.
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