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Exponential Gas Limit Increase

A desk note on EIP 7938 (Exponential Gas Limit Increase). The file's status is Stagnant. The note records the text. It does not measure who runs it.

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Authors: Dankrad Feist
Date: 2025
Publisher: Dankrad Feist
Version: Source cited by the 2025 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-1562
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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A desk note on EIP 7938 (Exponential Gas Limit Increase). The file's status is Stagnant. The note records the text. It does not measure who runs it.

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Official source — EIP 7938
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Feist, D. (2025). Exponential Gas Limit Increase. Dankrad Feist. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-7938.md

BibTeX

@techreport{eip79382025,
  title = {Exponential Gas Limit Increase},
  author = {Dankrad Feist},
  year = {2025},
  institution = {Dankrad Feist},
  url = {https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-7938.md},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eip-7938}
}

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TY  - RPRT
TI  - Exponential Gas Limit Increase
AU  - Dankrad Feist
PY  - 2025
PB  - Dankrad Feist
UR  - https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-7938.md
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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