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A researcher proposes to increase the Ethereum gas limit by 100 times over 4 years
Dankrad Feist from Ethereum presented a four-year plan to increase the Ethereum gas limit by 100 times, which could theoretically increase TPS on the blockchain to 2000.
Theoretically, the gas limit of Ethereum's mainnet could grow by 100 times and reach 2000 transactions per second under the new Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) presented by researcher Dankrad Feist from the Ethereum Foundation.
On April 27, Feist, who named the data storage solution "danksharding" after himself, introduced EIP-9698, which would provide a "deterministic gas limit growth schedule" starting from epoch 369017, or around June 1.
The proposal includes gradually increasing the gas limit by a factor of 10 over nearly two years, or 164250 epochs, when a final tenfold increase occurs.
Feist stated that Ethereum clients would need to vote on the proposal before it comes into effect.
He added: "By providing a predictable exponential growth pattern as a default option for the client, this energy efficiency improvement plan encourages a sustainable and transparent gas limit path, in line with expected developments in device and protocol efficiency."
Since Ethereum can sometimes reach 20 transactions per second (TPS) in blocks dominated by simple transactions, increasing the gas limit by 100 times could theoretically raise Ethereum transactions per second to 2000. The Feist proposal would improve Ethereum's position to compete with platforms like Solana, which currently processes non-voting transactions per second (TPS) ranging from 800 to 1050, and theoretically has transactions per second of 65000.
Source: Fabda.eth
The EIP plan is expected to expand the current gas limit from 36 million to 3.6 billion, allowing for approximately 6000 transactions within Ethereum blocks.
Feist's proposal comes after Ethereum researchers agreed to raise the gas limit from 30 million to 36 million in February.
Previously, the last change in Ethereum's gas limit occurred in August 2021 under the London hard fork, where the figure nearly doubled from 15 million to 30 million.
The daily change in the average gas limit for Ethereum over the past five years. Source: YCharts
Feist acknowledged that the rapid increase in the gas limit under his proposal could put pressure on less optimized nodes and increase block propagation times.
"However, the exponential schedule with very gradual increases in each epoch gives node operators and developers enough time to adapt and optimize," he said.
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EIP-9698 represents the latest efforts of the Ethereum community to enhance scalability at the base layer after primarily focusing on scaling through layer 2 solutions in recent years.
Critics of the layer 2-focused Ethereum strategy claim it has led to fragmentation of the ecosystem into several isolated chains with little interoperability, resulting in a worse user experience.
The EIP-9678 bill aims to increase the gas limit
Ethereum developers are also looking forward to testing a fourfold increase in the maximum gas limit of Ethereum in the Fusaka hard fork under EIP-9678.
The possibility of launching Fusaka has been referenced for late 2025, while the next major upgrade for Ethereum, Pictura, is scheduled for mainnet launch in May.
