Ethereum developers consider quadrupling L1’s gas limit as key feature of Fusaka hard fork

Mars Finance News: Ethereum core developers are considering raising 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 increasing 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 raising the Gas limit as a "key feature" of Fusaka. Developers have drafted the EIP, planning to merge it 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. Even with the hard fork scope defined, 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 raising the Gas limit aims to expand Layer 1 execution capacity without new features, but requires execution layer developer guidance to test and fix client bugs, thus incorporating it into the hard fork EIP is reasonable. On February 4, validators supported increasing the network's Gas limit, increasing the maximum Gas amount for transactions in a single Ethereum block. Ycharts data shows the current value is slightly below 36 million. (Cointelegraph)