Ethereum developers are considering another increase in network capacity that could significantly improve transaction throughput early next year.
The proposal would raise Ethereum’s block gas limit from 60 million to 80 million following upcoming protocol upgrades.
Discussion of the potential change took place during the latest Ethereum All Core Developers meeting.
Christine Kim, vice president of research at Galaxy Digital, summarised the meeting’s outcomes in a public update.
Representatives from client developer Nethermind said the ecosystem should prepare for a gas limit increase in January.
The change would follow the second blob parameter-only hard fork scheduled for Jan. 7.
Ethereum Foundation developer operations engineer Barnabas Busa outlined technical requirements that must be completed before the increase.
Required client-level optimisations include:
- Partial blob responses on the execution layer.
- A max blobs flag on the consensus layer.