PANews reported on April 25 that Ethereum core developers are considering increasing the Layer 1 Gas limit by four times as a key feature of the Fusaka hard fork following Pectra. On April 23, developer Sophia Gold proposed EIP 9678, suggesting raising the Gas limit to 150 million during the Fusaka hard fork. On April 24, core developer Tim Beiko noted in the meeting summary that the ACDE meeting had discussed increasing the Gas limit as a "key feature" of Fusaka. Developers have drafted the EIP, plan to merge it in early next week, and formally propose it at the next ACDE meeting. As work progresses, protocol internal changes may be needed to support a higher Gas limit, and even though the hard fork scope is set, more EIPs may need to be added to Fusaka. Pectra is planned to launch on the mainnet in May, with Fusaka potentially launching by the end of 2025.
Developers stated that increasing the Gas limit aims to expand Layer 1 execution capacity without new features, but requires guidance from execution layer developers to test and fix client bugs, thus incorporating it into the hard fork EIP is reasonable. On February 4, validators supported raising the network's Gas limit, increasing the maximum Gas amount for transactions in a single Ethereum block. Ycharts data shows that this value is currently slightly below 36 million.
