Glamsterdam is off Hoodi’s October calendar as Ethereum checks contract risks

The October 26 Hoodi test has been pulled, including its planned 200 million gas limit. Developers are examining a repricing proposal against contracts already on mainnet. Summary Ethereum’s developers postponed Glamsterdam’s October 26 Hoodi activation at epoch 132,352, with no replacement date set. The delay follows questions about how EIP-8037, which raises the cost of creating chain state, interacts with existing mainnet smart contracts. The Amsterdam execution and Gloas consensus activations were both removed from Hoodi’s schedule, along with the planned move to a 200 million gas limit. Ethereum’s earlier transaction replay found most contracts unaffected, but flagged a small set relying on fixed gas stipends, hardcoded limits or remaining-gas logic. Hoodi operators must check execution and consensus client instructions so their software does not still activate the old fork on October 26. Ethereum has called off a test that was due to run next Monday. The Ethereum Foundation’s October 22 notice says Glamsterdam will not activate on Hoodi at 17:42:48 UTC on October 26, and no new epoch has been set. The accompanying gas-limit increase to 200 million has been taken off the testn...