Ethereum unveils draft applying V2 gas rules to new contracts

A new Ethereum Improvement Proposal draft has been published on the developer forum that would split gas cost rules between newly deployed smart contracts and existing ones, applying a V2 instruction set and the gas cost schedules from EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 to new contracts while keeping the prior schedule for already-deployed contracts. The proposal aims to prevent future gas cost adjustments from altering execution rules for contracts already on-chain, and the V2 instruction set would exclude gas-reading opcodes such as GAS and GASLIMIT, with contracts containing those opcodes handled during deployment. The split matters because it would let Ethereum revise gas pricing without breaking existing applications, a key concern as the network weighs repricing for state and execution costs. What to watch next is how developers resolve the treatment of gas-introspecting opcodes and whether the draft advances toward inclusion in a future hard fork.