- Ethereum aims to increase its gas limit to at least 180 million, potentially higher within the next year.
- Gas limit increases allow more transactions per block, boosting network capacity.
- Transaction costs will be adjusted to enable higher gas limits without raising overall expenses.
- The upcoming Fusaka upgrade is set to improve Ethereum’s scalability and will launch on mainnet December 3.
- Developers have implemented an initial gas limit increase from 45 million to 60 million, with plans for further growth.
Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano stated that the target to raise Ethereum’s gas limit to 180 million next year is a minimum baseline, not the maximum goal. He made these remarks during an interview on the Bankless podcast after the network’s gas limit was recently raised from 45 million to 60 million. The gas limit defines the maximum amount of computational work, including transactions and smart contract executions, allowed in each block.
Sassano noted that core developers and researchers aim to triple the gas limit over the next few years. Some developers are even considering a fivefold increase within the next year. Increasing the gas limit allows Ethereum to process more transactions per block, thus improving throughput.
He explained that this increase can be managed by repricing transaction costs, making some operations less expensive while increasing others. For example, the cost of a basic ETH transfer could be reduced from 21,000 gas to 6,000 gas, a reduction of over 70%, which would help accommodate higher gas limits without raising overall costs. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin supports this approach, recommending higher fees for operations that are inefficient to process, according to his post on X.
The upcoming Fusaka upgrade aims to enhance Ethereum’s scalability. It entered the Hoodi testnet on October 29 and is scheduled for mainnet launch on December 3. Sassano co-authored the related Ethereum Improvement Proposal alongside core developer Ben Adams, with plans to include it in the Glamsterdam upgrade expected in the first half of 2026.
Following the recent gas limit increase to 60 million, supported by over 513,000 validators, Ben Adams commented on the rapid progress in gas capacity on X. Ethereum core developer Toni Wahrstätter also remarked on the speed of this advancement, highlighting the doubling of the gas limit within one year in a post on X.
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