Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, is set up to undergo critical technical design upgrades. With EIP 7907 considering “increasing meter contract code size and cap limits” for implementation, Ethereum (ETH) will be more developer-friendly than ever.
Ethereum (ETH) approves EIP 7907: Why is this important for the developer experience?
The Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7907 is expected to fundamentally increase the limits on Ethereum (ETH) smart contract size and include it in Fusaka Hardfork. This means that Ethereum (ETH) contract size could be pushed to 256 kb soon this year.
EIP-7907 has just been approved
The contract size limit is more than 10 times, significantly improving the developer experience at Ethereum.
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The new EIP also introduces a gas cost of two gases per word of contract code above 24 kB, allowing contracts of any size to be deployed, preventing denial of service (DOS) attacks through the appropriate gas meter.
As explained by Charles Cooper of Beacon Exchange, who wrote EIP 7907, it removed restrictions that would hinder the launch of larger smart contracts and thus limits the scope of legitimate use cases for the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain.
This EIP proposes a gas-based solution that allows contracts of any size, ensuring that users loading very large contracts will pay gas proportionately to the additional resources consumed by them. This approach is consistent with Ethereum’s gas model philosophy of paying for consumed resources.
As of today, EIP is on the list of Fusaka (Fluosaka) Hard Fork’s “Conclusion Consideration” proposals, which are expected to be activated in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Ethereum Pectra arrives at Mainnet in May 2025
While the Fusaka Hardfork agenda is still only approved tentatively, Ethereum (ETH) developers appreciate the fact that such a deep EIP is being considered for implementation.
Developers who are about to drop a monolith like they did in 2017 are better than ever, but too late.
As previously covered by U.Today, the Prague-Electra (Pectra) Hardfork tests are now in the spotlight of the Ethereum (ETH) community.
Despite the problems with the activation of hard forks on main testnets such as Sepolia and Holesky, it was successfully realized with Hoodi, a test network created for the purpose.
In May 2025, the most optimistic timeline for the activation of the Pectra Mainnet, the latest estimates say.
