Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter have filed Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7983, calling for a hard cap of 16.77 million gas on every transaction executed on the network.
The authors say the limit would curb denial-of-service vectors, make block verification times more predictable and improve compatibility with zero-knowledge virtual machines, which rely on smaller, modular transactions. They stress that the measure does not alter Ethereum’s overall block gas limit, leaving miners and validators in control of aggregate capacity.
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