2026-04-10 –, Limmat (Y15-G-60)
Gas is a fundamental mechanism in Ethereum. It determines how much users pay for transactions and constrains how much computation and data can fit into a block. In other words, gas simultaneously drives transaction pricing and enforces block-level resource limits.
It is no surprise, then, that changes to gas pricing and metering can significantly impact Ethereum's effective throughput and scalability.
In this talk, we will explain how the EVM currently measures resource usage and assigns gas costs, and explore recent proposals that aim to unlock significant throughput gains through gas reforms.
Maria is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. She works on various topics related to gas pricing, DeFi, MEV, and incentives in decentralized networks. Her interests include statistical simulation, time-series data mining, network science, and applications of Machine Learning to finance and economics. She previously worked in the fields of fraud detection and cybercrime.
She holds a Ph.D. in Information Management, where she used high-frequency telematics data to extract information about driving behavior. Previous work can be accessed on her Google Scholar profile, website, and GitHub profile.