PANews reported on April 28 that Dankrad Feist, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, proposed the EIP-9698 proposal on April 27, planning to introduce a 'deterministic gas limit growth plan' starting from epoch 369017 (around June 1). This is a four-year plan, and the proposal suggests that in the first two years (i.e., 164,250 epochs), the limit will gradually increase by a factor of ten, followed by one final tenfold adjustment. Theoretically, if the gas limit increases by 100 times, Ethereum's TPS is expected to rise to 2000 transactions. The proposal needs to be approved by client voting to be implemented.
This expansion attempt is another important development following the increase of the gas limit from 30 million to 36 million in February. Feist pointed out that the gradual increase plan allows node operators sufficient time to optimize. Meanwhile, developers are testing the EIP-9678 proposal, which plans to implement a fourfold increase in the gas limit during the Fusaka upgrade at the end of 2025.
