[Ethereum EIP-8488 Draft: Implementing a "New-Old Distinction" for Gas Pricing, Introducing Versioned Opcodes] BlockBeats reported on November 9th that the Ethereum community recently submitted the EIP-8488 draft, titled "Versioned Opcodes for Gas Repricing." The core idea of this proposal is to introduce a set of parallel V2 opcodes, whose gas costs will follow the new billing standard (EIP-8037 and EIP-8038). The draft stipulates that after network activation, newly deployed contracts can only contain V2 opcodes and must have their version number written during acceptance. New cross-contract call instructions require the target contract to also be V2 version; otherwise, the call will fail. To completely distinguish between new and old rules, instructions such as GAS and GASLIMIT, which expose internal gas metering, have been removed from the V2 opcode set to prevent new contracts from hardcoding old gas consumption logic. All existing old contracts will continue to execute according to the old gas plan indefinitely. The motivation for proposing this draft is to resolve the contradictions currently facing upgrades. Directly applying the new Gas rules across the board could easily impact existing contracts that rely on the old Gas invariant formulas; however, delaying or canceling the new rules would hinder EIPs aimed at controlling state growth and significantly increasing the Gas cap. EIP-8488 offers a third path: new bytecode uses the new price, old contracts remain unaffected, and upgradeable systems migrate naturally when replacing implementations. As the proportion of V2 executions increases and state growth becomes manageable, Ethereum's Gas cap can be gradually increased. The proposal authors state that the underlying structure of deployed contracts should not change due to subsequent price increases; to decouple pricing from application functionality, new contracts should not have their internal Gas pricing written into their logic. Currently, the proposal is in an early draft stage.