Vitalik Buterin and Toni Wahrstätter proposes EIP-7983 to cap transaction gas at 16.77 million, aiming to boost Ethereum security, stability, and zkVM compatibility.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and researcher Toni Wahrstätter have proposed EIP-7983, which aims to introduce a protocol-level cap on transaction gas usage to enhance network security, stability, and zkVM compatibility. The proposal sets a maximum gas limit of 16.77 million for individual transactions, which is designed to:

• Improve resilience against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks
• Enhance network stability and predictability
• Increase compatibility with zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs)

The cap is independent of the overall block gas limit and is chosen to balance complexity and performance, accommodating current advanced DeFi use cases and contract deployments.