Understand Gas Repricing
The upcoming Glamsterdam hard fork aligns gas costs with real resource usage across compute, state, data, and gas accounting. See how these changes affect you.
Why Gas Repricing?
State Has Grown
State has grown much larger than when current gas pricing was set. Costs need to reflect real resource usage.
Higher Throughput Ahead
Higher gas limits and better resource alignment enable greater transaction throughput and more complex blocks.
Prevent Worst-Case Blocks
Without repricing, some operations could create blocks that are slow for nodes to execute and propagate.
Safety & Sustainability
Gas prices must match real resource costs across compute, state, data, and gas accounting for Ethereum to scale safely.
Gas Cost vs. ETH Paid
Understanding Gas Repricing Impact
Gas repricing can make a transaction use more gas units, but if the block capacity (gas limit) also increases, the fee per gas unit (base fee) is expected to fall because congestion drops.
End users care about total ETH paid:
- Block gas budget increases 3x
- Typical tx gasUsed increases 2x after repricing
- Base fee decreases 60% due to higher capacity
Throughput for that tx type: ≈ 3x / 2x = 1.5x
ETH cost for that tx type: ≈ 2x × 0.4x = 0.8x(about -20%)