{"id":24305,"date":"2025-05-27T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-validators-endorse-gas-limit-increase-to-60-million\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:43:02","slug":"ethereum-validators-endorse-gas-limit-increase-to-60-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-validators-endorse-gas-limit-increase-to-60-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Validators Endorse Gas Limit Increase to 60 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 150,000 Ethereum validators, representing 15% of the network, have backed an increase in the gas limit to 60 million, up from the current 36 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122002-1024x505.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122002\" class=\"wp-image-259437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122002-1024x505.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122002-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122002-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122002-1536x757.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122002.png 1673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/gaslimit.pics\/\">Gaslimit.Pics<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This change will enhance block throughput, allowing more transactions and data to be processed in each block.<\/p>\n<p>The adjustment will automatically take effect once it is supported by more than 50% of network participants. A hard fork is not required for this change, as validators manually configure their nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier increases were implemented in February (from 30 million to 36 million) and in 2021, when it was raised from 15 million to 30 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122145-1024x376.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122145\" class=\"wp-image-259438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122145-1024x376.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122145-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122145-768x282.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-27-122145.png 1197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/indicators\/ethereum_average_gas_limit\">Ycharts<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some developers caution that increasing the limit could lead to greater strain on node operators&#8217; equipment and potentially affect network performance.<\/p>\n<p>Back on May 19, network co-founder Vitalik Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/news\/vitalik-buterin-proposed-to-reduce-the-node-state-size\">proposed<\/a> reducing the node state size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 150,000 Ethereum validators, representing 15% of the network, have backed an increase in the gas limit to 60 million, up from the current 36 million. Data: Gaslimit.Pics. This change will enhance block throughput, allowing more transactions and data to be processed in each block. The adjustment will automatically take effect once it is supported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-24305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"70","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}