Ethereum to Quadruple Gas Limit in Fusaka Upgrade: Report

• Ethereum developers propose raising the gas limit to 150 million for the Fusaka hard fork.
• Fusaka hard fork aims to scale Ethereum without adding new features, launching in late 2025.
• Gas limit increase could boost scalability, but may cause client issues to address.

Ethereum’s developers are proposing a quadruple increase in the gas limit as part of the Fusaka upgrade. They plan to implement a test that would raise Ethereum’s gas limit to 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork. This proposal is outlined in Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 9678, introduced by Sophia Gold from the Ethereum Foundation’s protocol support team on April 23, 2025.

Another week, another busy ACD

Pectra is ready to go, some turbulence around EOF, but strong confidence around shipping PeerDAS and raising the L1 gas limit https://t.co/uXo6S6YmVb

— timbeiko.eth (@TimBeiko) April 24, 2025

The rationale behind this proposal to increase the gas limit is to enhance Ethereum’s Layer 1 execution capacity without requiring the addition of new features to the Ethereum platform. The move was proposed during the recent All Core Devs Execution (ACDE) meeting. The gas limit would be introd…

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