Ethereum Forum Releases Versioned Opcode Gas Repricing EIP Draft

The Ethereum forum released a draft for "Versioned Opcodes for Gas Repricing." The draft proposes achieving Gas repricing through versioned opcodes while maintaining backward compatibility. Newly deployed contracts must use V2 opcodes and follow the Gas scheduling tables of EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, while existing contracts will continue to use the old scheduling table.

The V2 opcode set does not include Gas introspection-related opcodes such as GAS and GASLIMIT; if included, the deployment will revert. The draft also introduces DELEGATECALL_V2, which behaves similarly to DELEGATECALL but requires the target contract's code_version to be greater than or equal to 2, otherwise it fails immediately. This design aims to allow future adjustments to Gas costs without disrupting already deployed contracts.