Ethereum developer Leo Glicic submitted an EIP draft proposing versioned opcodes to allow gas repricing while preserving backward compatibility, PANews reported on November 9, 2026, at 11:19:48 UTC+8.
The proposal aims to let future gas costs change without disrupting already-deployed contracts. It would separate the gas schedules used by new and existing contracts:
- Newly deployed contracts would be required to use V2 opcodes and follow the gas schedules specified in EIP-8037/8038.
- Existing contracts would continue using the legacy gas schedule.
V2 restrictions and delegated calls
The V2 opcode set would exclude gas-introspection opcodes, including GAS and GASLIMIT. Deployment would revert if a contract contained those excluded opcodes.
The draft also introduces DELEGATECALL_V2. Its behavior would resemble DELEGATECALL, but the target contract would need a code_version of at least 2. Otherwise, the call would fail immediately.
These changes were reported as an EIP draft, not an activated Ethereum network upgrade. The supplied report does not identify a proposal number for the versioned-opcode draft or provide an activation date.