Core Ethereum developers are considering quadrupling the layer 1 gas limit as a key feature for the next hard fork after Pectra, called Fusaka.

The developers are proposing to test increasing Ethereum's gas limit to 150 million with the Fusaka hard fork, according to Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 9678, introduced on April 23 by Sophia Gold, a developer on the protocol support team at the Ethereum Foundation.

During the recent All Core Devs Execution (ACDE) meeting, there were discussions to make the gas limit increase a "core feature" of Fusaka, core Ethereum developer Tim Beiko said in the meeting summary on April 24.

"To align with client defaults and prioritize this, we have drafted an EIP. It is somewhat unusual, but not without precedent (see EIP-7840). We plan to merge it early next week and officially SFI it at the next ACDE," Beiko said.

"As we continue this work, we hope to identify the changes needed in the protocol to support a higher gas limit. This implies adding more EIPs to Fusaka, although the scope of the fork is ultimately limited."