Ethereum’s candidate Glamsterdam upgrade is designed to support roughly three times more base-layer throughput by aligning gas charges with the resources consumed by each operation. EIP-8037 would introduce a 1,530-gas charge for every byte of new state and a separate state-gas dimension, sharply increasing costs for new accounts, storage slots and deployed code. EIP-8038 would reprice access to and writes of existing state. Both proposals remain in formal Review status and are scheduled for Glamsterdam, which Ethereum’s official roadmap places in the fourth quarter of 2026, although fixed Sepolia, Hoodi and mainnet fork dates have not been announced. Replay testing of 929,731,274 transactions across 4 million blocks found that many failures could be addressed with higher gas limits, while smaller potentially broken cohorts may require contract and application changes. Wallets, RPC providers, bundlers, gas estimators, node tooling and developers must adapt to the new schedule before activation.