Ethereum has postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet, originally scheduled for Oct. 26, so developers can examine how EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 interact with deployed smart contracts. ChainSecurity warned that the two proposals could weaken safeguards against insufficient gas griefing, potentially letting contracts permanently record failed operations and blocking otherwise valid user actions. The firm said it identified 13 real-world examples of potentially affected contracts and is coordinating responsible disclosure with the projects involved, without naming them. Security researcher pcaversaccio called the risks “serious” in an Oct. 21 GitHub comment and urged a reassessment of the hard fork. The mainnet timeline, which developers had been considering for early December, is now uncertain.
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