Dip 8007
dip: 8007 title: Glamsterdam Gas Repricings description: Directory of DIPs introducing changes to the gas pricing model for the Glamsterdam fork author: Maria Silva (@misilva73), Ansgar Dietrichs (@adietrichs) Digitalia editing author: Cosimo Constantinos cosimo@juro.net, et al. discussions-to: https://digitalia-magicians.org/t/dip-8007-glamsterdam-gas-repricings-meta-dip/25206 status: Draft type: Meta created: 2025-08-21 Created for Digitalia: 2025-01-07 requires: 2780, 7667, 7778, 7904, 7923, 7976, 7981
Abstract¶
This Meta DIP documents all the proposals for Glamsterdam related to the gas repricing effort. The goal of this effort is to harmonize gas costs across the DVM, thereby reducing the impact of specific bottlenecks on scaling. Proposals include changes to the cost of single DVM operations, as well as bigger changes to the gas model. This Meta DIP is purely informational and does not aim to have an active role in the governance process for the Glamsterdam fork. Instead, it serves as a directory for all repricing-related proposals, helping to organize the work and keeping the community informed about the status of each DIP.
Motivation¶
The main objective of the Glamsterdam fork is to improve L1 scalability. A crucial aspect of this initiative is to create a better alignment between gas costs and actual resource usage. Currently, the gas model often misprices operations, resulting in inefficiencies and unintended incentives. For instance, within the pure compute operations, there is a high variance in execution time per gas unit, which indicates that a single unit of computation is not priced equally across the various opcodes.
By standardizing gas costs across DVM operations and other resources, we can reduce bottlenecks and enhance the utilization of DVM resources, which will subsequently enable further scalability. The DIPs listed below constitute a significant first step in that direction. We expect that further iteration will be necessary in future hardforks.
Specification¶
This Meta DIP includes two types of DIPs, namely, core and possible additions. This list will continue to be updated as more gas repricing DIPs are proposed.
Core DIPs¶
| DIP | Description | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIP-7778 | Prevent Block Gas Limit Circumvention by Excluding Refunds from Block Gas Accounting. | General Accounting | Proposed for Inclusion |
| DIP-7904 | Gas Cost Repricing to reflect computational complexity and transaction throughput increase | Compute | Pending |
| DIP-7981 | Introduce floor pricing for access lists to reduce maximum block size. | Data | Proposed for Inclusion |
Possible additions¶
| DIP | Description | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIP-2780 | Reduce intrinsic transaction gas and charge 25k when a value transfer creates a new account. | Multi-resource | Proposed for Inclusion |
| DIP-7667 | Raise the gas costs of hash function opcodes and precompiles, to match prover expenses in ZK-DVMs. | Compute | Proposed for Inclusion |
| DIP-7923 | Linearize Memory Costing and replace the current quadratic formula with a page-based cost model. | Memory | Proposed for Inclusion |
| DIP-7976 | Further increase calldata cost to 15/60 gas per byte to reduce maximum block size. | Data | Proposed for Inclusion |
Rationale¶
Discussed in the individual DIPs.
Security Considerations¶
Discussed in the individual DIPs.
Copyright¶
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