Ethereum upgrade repricing-impact backlash
Prominent Ethereum developers warn that a planned network upgrade could break hundreds of thousands of contracts and that the impact analysis is methodologically flawed.
What we know
banteg says the situation is ridiculous: beyond the roughly 200,000 contracts listed in ethereum/repricing-impact, methodological issues hide many more, including several high-profile protocols. ethcforg asks whether Ethereum is really willing to upgrade without checking every contract for fund-losing breakage, and Odin adds that complexity is a killer.
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