In brief
- Vitalik Buterin co-authored EIP-7983, a proposal that seeks to introduce a gas limit on individual transactions.
- The change would accommodate virtual machines using zero-knowledge proofs, a proposal of the description states.
- EIP-7983 would also protect against DoS attacks, the proposal adds.
A proposal backed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin would introduce restrictions on the amount of computational work individual transactions can command, strengthening the network against potential attacks and support more advanced forms of cryptography.
The proposal, dubbed EIP-7983, was co-authored by Ethereum Foundation Researcher Toni Wahrstaetter and recommends a so-called gas limit of 16,777,216 gas. Currently, Ethereum has a per-block gas limit of around 36 million, with no gas limit on individual transactions.
The change would effectively split “large transactions into smaller chunks,” increasing the stability of Ethereum’s network, while shielding the network against “quadratic attacks” and encouraging more use of zero-knowledge proofs, a description of th
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Author: André Beganski
