🔥 【Ethereum's raid-style scaling! Gas limit skyrockets by 33%】50% of validators narrowly win, Vitalik: This is a "staking war"
💥 Event explosion point
✅ Life and death 50%: Block height 22,968,004, Ethereum L1 Gas limit increased from 30 million to 45 million (50% increase)
✅ Intense competition: Supporters narrowly win with only a 0.0001% advantage (50% vs 49.9999%), nearly 500,000 staked ETH (worth $18 billion) participated in the showdown!
✅ Vitalik's characterization: Vitalik tweeted that this is a "staking civil war", suggesting the community division has reached a boiling point
🚀 Performance violently improved
▸ Throughput soared: Transactions per second (TPS) increased from 32 to 42.5, L1 single block can package 50% more transactions
▸ Universal effect: If on-chain activity remains unchanged, user Gas costs theoretically could drop by up to 33% (actual depends on congestion)
▸ Ecological impact:
Positive: DEX high-frequency trading, NFT minting platforms, SocialFi applications
Negative: Some L2s that rely on high Gas competition may be "sucked dry"
⚔️ Opposition roars: The "unbearable burden" of node operators
▸ Core contradiction: Increasing Gas limit = increased computational load per block → Node hardware costs skyrocketing
▸ Small node warnings:
"Home-grade equipment will be eliminated!" — A staking pool engineer
"This is a betrayal of decentralization!" — Community KOL @EthHardcore
▸ Data evidence: Currently, only 11% of nodes use ≥128GB memory
📈 Real-time on-chain situation
Gas fees plummeting: Base fee dropped from 35 gwei to 22 gwei (a 37% drop within 1 hour)
Whale frenzy: A certain MEV bot made a $170,000 arbitrage (taking advantage of the gap in the first block after scaling)
Staking pool alignment:
‣ Supporters: Coinbase, Lido (control 26% of staked ETH)
‣ Opposition: Solo Stakers Alliance, Rocket Pool
💎 Retail action guide
✅ Short-term arbitrage: Focus on DApps with high Gas demand
⚠️ Beware of risks: Abnormal block reorganizations may occur during node load testing
💡 Long-term layout: Bet on high-performance hardware chains (FIL, RNDR) or anti-congestion L1s (SOL, TON)
🗣️ Topics 👇
Factional competition: Supporters want "lower Gas", the opposition wants "more decentralization", who do you support?
Vitalik's prophecy: Will Ethereum's daily active users exceed 5 million after scaling?
