Vitalik Buterin and a researcher propose EIP-7983 to cap transaction gas use on Ethereum for speed and security improvements.
The proposal sets a gas limit of 16.77 million per transaction to enhance network stability and security against DoS attacks.
EIP-7983 aims to prevent single transactions from consuming all gas in a block, encouraging splitting larger transactions for compatibility with zero-knowledge virtual machines.
Transactions exceeding the gas limit will be rejected, but most current transactions fall below this threshold. The proposed limit balances complexity and performance for handling advanced DeFi use cases.