PANews reported on July 21, according to The Block, that validators representing nearly half of the staked Ethereum support "raising the gas limit." Under this impetus, the gas limit for each Ethereum block has begun to increase, which will enhance the transaction throughput of the Layer 1 blockchain. On Sunday afternoon, multiple blocks proposed setting the gas limit to over 39 million units, an 8% increase from the previous 36 million, marking the first increase from 30 million in three years. Proponents of the "raising gas limit" action believe that an excessive increase would make the chain too large, complicating verification and download for individual node operators. However, gradual increases are reasonable with technological advancements. Once validators express a desire to raise the block limit, it will automatically rise, with each block able to adjust the limit to about 0.1% of the total amount of the previous block. According to gaslimit.pics, currently about 48% of the clients running staked Ethereum have set a gas limit target of 45 million units or higher.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin mentioned this initiative in an X post, stating: "Nearly 50% of the staked shares voted in favor of raising the Layer 1 gas limit to 45 million." He also praised the recent version update of Geth, which has reduced the storage capacity of archived nodes by about 90%, calling it the "hard work of the Geth team that made such scaling improvements safe and feasible."
