Ethereum researcher Dunkrat Feist published EIP-9698, which suggests increasing the network's gas limit by 100 times.
As part of the initiative, Ethereum validators will be able to vote for an increase in the metric on an exponential curve. The proposal introduces a 'deterministic schedule' with a tenfold increase every two years (164,250 epochs), starting in June.
If the EIP is implemented as Feist proposes, it will lead to a 100-fold increase in the gas limit over four years—from 36 million to 3.6 billion—along with an acceleration of the network's base performance.
The change could theoretically allow Ethereum to process up to 2000 transactions per second, noted ecosystem developer Fabrice Cheng.
Feist also mentioned potential difficulties, such as the load on less optimized nodes and increased block propagation time. However, he is confident that gradual changes will allow developers to adapt and optimize performance.
Recall that on April 24, the Ethereum team considered a more than fourfold increase in the gas limit in the network as one of the key features of the planned Fusaka hard fork.
An upgrade named Pectra is scheduled for May 7. The activation of Fusaka is expected to take place at the end of 2025.
