$ETH Ethereum developers are considering more than a fourfold increase in the gas limit in the network as one of the key features of the planned hard fork Fusaka.
The proposal EIP-9678 presented during the ACDE call suggests testing the parameter with an upper limit of 150 million units. In February, Ethereum validators supported the increase of the gas limit from 30 million. According to Ycharts, the value has increased by ~20%, to 35.95 million.
"To align client default settings and keep this as a priority, we drafted the EIP. It's a bit unconventional, but not unprecedented (see EIP-7840). We plan to merge it early next week ahead of the upcoming ACDE," commented core developer Tim Beiko.
The proposal will require changes to other EIPs for Fusaka, but the scope of the hard fork will not change, he noted.
Regarding the need to increase the gas limit, the developers led by Sofia Gold noted that there is significant interest in scaling the execution level of L1. However, without the implementation of new features, working in this direction will require client teams time to identify and fix bugs. Therefore, it made sense to formalize this as an EIP and include it in the hard fork, the specialists added.