Glamsterdam Upgrade Sparks Breaking Changes Warning for Ethereum Developers

The Ethereum Foundation has issued a warning about potential breaking changes from gas repricings in EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, part of the Glamsterdam upgrade scheduled for Q4 2026.

These changes could break or degrade smart contracts that use hardcoded gas assumptions. Developers are advised to check their contract addresses for potential impacts, as some affected contracts can be fixed with higher gas limits.

The two EIPs adjust how gas is priced for state creation and access, increasing the cost of creating new state and accessing existing state.

Ethlabs' Derek Chiang has published a detailed breakdown of the native account abstraction debate between EIP-8130 proposed by Base and EIP-8141 Frame Transactions proposed by Ethereum developers. He suggests that 8130's keystore validation be stripped into Ethereum, while moving its enshrined account model to a separate ERC or finishing Frames' pure-function workstream.

Meanwhile, the primary maintainer behind IPFS, Shipyard, is winding down all IPFS-related work after Protocol Labs declined to renew its funding. The final day of operations will be on September 30, 2026, which has far-reaching implications for projects relying on gateways, bootstrap nodes, and reference implementations.