# Ethereum Researchers Model a Multi-Dimensional Fee Market Ahead of the Glamsterdam Upgrade

One proposal would price state growth, data, and execution as separate resources instead of a single gas unit, while a companion design paper benchmarks a leaner data-availability-sampling scheme intended to shrink what full validators must store.

- Published: 2026-08-07T14:25:07.977Z
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- Sources: [Ethereum Research](https://ethresear.ch/t/demand-model-with-elasticities-for-ethereum-state-data-and-execution-and-glamsterdam-fee-market-analysis/25644), [Ethereum Research](https://ethresear.ch/t/leanda-design-and-benchmark/25642)

Ethereum's research community is working through the technical detail behind the network's next major upgrade, Glamsterdam, and two papers posted this week to the Ethereum Foundation-adjacent forum ethresear.ch illustrate the shift underway…

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