Ethereum Proposes a 100-Fold Increase in Gas Limit

Ethereum researcher Dankrad Feist published EIP-9698, which suggests a 100-fold increase in the network’s gas limit.

Under this initiative, Ethereum validators will be able to vote for an exponential increase in the metric. The proposal introduces a “deterministic schedule” with a tenfold increase every two years (164,250 epochs), starting in June.

If EIP is implemented as Feist proposes, it will lead to a 100-fold increase in the gas limit over four years—from 36 million to 3.6 billion—along with an acceleration of the network’s basic performance.

The change could theoretically allow Ethereum to process up to 2,000 transactions per second, noted ecosystem developer Fabrice Cheng.

How serious is Ethereum about scaling L1?

Answer: Exponentially increase gas limit 100x over 4 years by @dankrad

How: Clients sets default and automatically raise the gas limit every epoch (users can still override).

100x means:
— 3.6B gas limit
~2000 TPS
— 6000 tx per block https://t.co/3Wjb5EKKck

— fabda.eth (@fabdarice) April 27, 2025

Feist also mentioned potential challenges, such as the load on less optimized nodes and increased block propagation times. However, he is confident that gradual changes will allow developers to adapt and optimize performance.

On April 24, the Ethereum team considered more than a fourfold increase in the network’s gas limit as one of the key features of the planned Fusaka hard fork.

The upgrade Pectra is scheduled for May 7. The activation of Fusaka is expected to take place at the end of 2025.