Ethereum Discusses Quadrupling Gas Limit in 'Fusaka' Hard Fork

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Suehyeon Lee

Summary

  • Ethereum developers reported that they are considering quadrupling the Layer 1 gas limit in the Fusaka hard fork.
  • According to EIP-9678, a test to increase the gas limit to a maximum of 150 million has been proposed.
  • Tim Beiko stated that the discussion to increase the gas limit was pushed as a core feature of the Fusaka upgrade.

Ethereum (ETH) core developers are considering quadrupling the Layer 1 gas limit in the 'Fusaka' hard fork following the Pectra upgrade.

According to Cointelegraph on the 25th (local time), EIP-9678, submitted by Sophia Gold, a developer from the Ethereum Foundation's protocol support team on the 23rd, proposes testing an increase in the gas limit by four times to a maximum of 150 million during the Fusaka hard fork.

In this regard, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko explained, "There was a discussion to push the gas limit increase as a core feature of the Fusaka upgrade." Meanwhile, the Ethereum Pectra upgrade is scheduled to be released on the mainnet on May 7.

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