{"id":128082,"date":"2025-04-28T03:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128082"},"modified":"2025-04-28T03:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:17:17","slug":"researcher-proposes-scaling-ethereum-gas-limit-by-100x-over-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128082","title":{"rendered":"Researcher proposes scaling Ethereum gas limit by 100x over 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsThe Ethereum mainnet\u2019s gas limit could theoretically grow 100-fold and reach 2,000 transactions per second under a new Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) put forward by Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist.<br \/>\nFeist, who had the blockchain\u2019s \u201cdanksharding\u201d data storage solution named after him, put forward EIP-9698 on April 27, which would introduce a \u201cdeterministic gas limit growth schedule\u201d starting at epoch 369017, or around June 1.<br \/>\nThe proposal would gradually increase the gas limit by a factor of 10 for roughly two years, or 164,250 epochs, when one final tenfold increase would occur.<br \/>\nEthereum clients would need to vote on the proposal for it to take effect, Feist said.<br \/>\n\u201cBy introducing a predictable exponential growth pattern as a client default, this EIP encourages a sustainable and transparent gas limit trajectory, aligned with expected advancements in hardware and protocol efficiency,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nAs Ethereum can occasionally reach up to 20 TPS in blocks dominated by simple transactions, a 100x gas limit increase could theoretically increase Ethereum\u2019s TPS to 2,000. Feist\u2019s proposal would better position Ethereum to compete with the likes of Solana, which currently processes a non-vote TPS between 800 to 1,050 and has a theoretical TPS of 65,000.<br \/>\nSource: Fabda.ethThe EIP would expand the current gas limit of 36 million to 3.6 billion, potentially allowing around 6,000 transactions to fit into Ethereum blocks.<br \/>\nFeist\u2019s proposal comes after Ethereum validators agreed to raise the gas limit from 30 million to 36 million in February.<br \/>\nBefore that, the last change to Ethereum\u2019s gas limit occurred in August 2021 under the London hard fork, where the figure was roughly doubled from 15 million to 30 million.<br \/>\nDaily change in Ethereum Average Gas Limit over the last five years. Source: YChartsFeist acknowledged that a rapid increase in the gas limit under his proposal may stress less-optimized nodes and increase block propagation times.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cHowever, the exponential schedule with very gradual increments per epoch gives node operators and developers ample time to adapt and optimize,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nRelated: Ethereum community members propose new fee structure for the app layer<br \/>\nEIP-9698 marks the Ethereum community\u2019s latest effort to boost scalability at the base layer after predominantly focusing on scaling through layer 2 solutions in recent years.<br \/>\nCritics of Ethereum\u2019s layer-2 focused strategy claim that it has fragmented the ecosystem into several siloed chains with little interoperability, leading to a worse user experience.<br \/>\nEIP-9678 looks to increase gas limit<br \/>\nEthereum developers are also looking to test a fourfold increase of Ethereum\u2019s gas limit in the Fusaka hard fork under EIP-9678.<br \/>\nFusaka has been flagged as possibly going online in late 2025, while the next major Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is scheduled to go live on the mainnet in May.Magazine: Ethereum is destroying the competition in the $16.1T TradFi tokenization race<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/dankrad-fiest-unveils-eip-to-scale-ethereum-gas-limit-100x?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsThe Ethereum mainnet\u2019s gas limit could theoretically grow 100-fold and reach 2,000 transactions per second under a new Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) put forward by Ethereum Foundation researcher&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}