#EthereumFuture Ethereum developers are testing a fourfold increase in the gas limit

The increase in the parameter is one of the key features of the planned hard fork Fusaka, which will follow Pectra, scheduled for early May. The upper limit will be 150 million gas units.

In February, Ethereum validators supported the increase of the limit from 30 million. The current parameter has increased by about 20% — to approximately 36 million.

Increasing the block gas limit boosts the throughput of the L1 execution layer. The downside is that the load on nodes and hardware requirements increase.