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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has warned that some wallets, indexers and gas estimators may break because of gas-model changes in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.&nbsp;
On Monday, the EF’s Protocol DevOps team <a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/2026/08/17/plataberget-testnet" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a> any tool relying on a hardcoded maximum gas limit “will break” and must be updated. It urged developers to test their systems on Plataberget, a public testnet intended to operate for several months.&nbsp;
<a href="https://forkcast.org/networks/glamsterdam-devnet-8" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">According</a> to upgrade tracker Forkcast, Plataberget launched on Aug. 13. Meanwhile, the Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on the network on Thursday, before its deployment on the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets.&nbsp;
The EF’s Protocol DevOps team said EIP-8037 would introduce a separate state-gas dimension for operations that create new state. Under the changes, a plain ETH transfer to an existing account would still cost 21,000 gas, while sending ETH to a new account would incur an additional state-gas charge.
The foundation said developers should revisit software that assumes 21,000 gas covers every ETH transfer or uses only one gas dimension when estimating transaction costs.&nbsp;
Glamsterdam also includes enshrined proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and increased limits for contract and initialization-code sizes.&nbsp;
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-foundation-hits-glamsterdam-milestones-names-new-protocol-leads" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum Foundation hits ‘Glamsterdam’ milestones, names new protocol leads</a>

Ethereum Foundation warns some tools may break with Glamsterdam upgrade

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