$ETH The main developers of Ethereum are considering a fourfold increase in the layer 1 gas limit as one of the key features for the upcoming hard fork after Pectra, known as Fusaka.

Developers are proposing to test an increase in the Ethereum gas limit to 150 million for the Fusaka hard fork, according to Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 9678, submitted on April 23 by Sophia Gold, a developer from the protocol support team at the Ethereum Foundation.

During the last All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) meeting, making the gas limit increase a "key feature" of Fusaka was discussed, Ethereum's main developer Tim Beiko indicated in a summary of the meeting on April 24.