Ethereum developers test a 4x increase in gas limit for the Fusaka hard fork
The core developers of Ethereum are considering a fourfold increase in the layer 1 gas limit as a key feature for the upcoming hard fork after Pectra, known as Fusaka.
The developers are proposing to test an increase in the Ethereum gas limit to 150 million through the Fusaka hard fork, according to Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 9678, submitted on April 23 by Sophia Gold, a developer from the protocol support team at the Ethereum Foundation.
During the last All Core Devs Execution (ACDE) meeting, there were discussions to make the gas limit increase a “key feature” of Fusaka, said Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko in a summary of the meeting on April 24.
To align with client defaults and keep this as a priority, we have drafted an Infrastructure Improvement Plan (EIP). It’s a bit unusual, but not unprecedented (see EIP-7840). We plan to merge it early next week and formalize it as SFI in the next ACDE (Infrastructure Management Department) —said Beiko—.
As we proceed with this work, we hope to identify necessary changes to the protocol to enable a higher gas limit. This involves adding more EIPs to Fusaka, although the scope of the fork is definitive.
