Ethereum Forum Publishes EIP Draft for Versioned Opcodes to Reprice Gas

An Ethereum forum has published a draft EIP proposing versioned opcodes for gas repricing while maintaining backward compatibility. According to Foresight News, newly deployed contracts would use V2 opcodes and follow the gas schedules in EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, while existing contracts would continue using the previous schedule. The V2 opcode set would exclude gas introspection opcodes such as GAS and GASLIMIT; deployments that include them would revert. The draft also introduces DELEGATECALL_V2, which behaves like DELEGATECALL but fails immediately if the target contract’s code_version is below 2. The proposal is intended to allow future changes to gas costs without disrupting contracts already deployed.