Ethereum block gas limit increased to 45 million, transaction processing capacity increased by 25%
According to The Block, the gas limit of the Ethereum blockchain has been raised to 45 million units, a 25% increase from the 36 million units set in February 2025. This increase was activated at block number 22,968,004 with the support of nearly 50% of validators.
This adjustment does not require a hard fork and aims to improve the network's transaction throughput and scalability. Developers have also introduced security measures such as EIP-7983, which sets the gas usage limit for a single transaction to 16.77 million units to prevent denial-of-service attacks.
Ethereum's short-term goal is to achieve a gas limit of 60 million per block, while the long-term goal is to reach 150 million gas units per block through the upcoming Fusaka hard fork.
