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By enforcing a fixed gas ceiling during block validation, Ethereum’s EIP-7983 would improve transaction consistency, reduce gas fee volatility, and encourage developers to design modular, efficient dApps. EIP-7983 builds on prior proposals like EIP-7825 and comes as Ethereum faces competitive pressure from faster Layer-1s like Solana. The new Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) might provide an important protocol-level restriction to make the network more resistant and ensure predictable transaction behavior. EIP-7983, co-authored by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and researcher Toni Wahrstätter, proposes to limit the amount of gas individual transactions allotted on the system to 16.77 million gas units. About Ethereum’s Latest Upgrade Proposal On July 6, the proposal that aims to fix a structural weakness in the Ethereum transaction execution model came to light. Currently, a single transaction may demand a gas limit of the entire block and this has the risk of denial-of-service (DoS) attack as a malicious entity can take the entire block and leave the rest of the network unadvertised. EIP-7983 proposes a solution to this threat in the form of a per-operation gas limit, which would limit how many resources are consumed to run a single operation. The suggested limit of 16.77 million gas units reflects a deliberate calibration to support the execution of advanced smart contracts while curbing the potential for abuse. Unlike the block-level gas limit, which remains adjustable by validators, this cap would be a fixed upper bound applied during block validation, automatically excluding any transaction exceeding the threshold. For further context, the proposed hard cap on the use of gas per transaction would enable the Ethereum network to prevent cases where one privileged operation interferes with the throughput in transactions or introduces validation delay. The cap also aims to streamline the flow of transactions, promoting more consistent processing times and predictable gas…

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