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Thursday Nov 27 2025 12:10
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The Ethereum network has achieved a significant milestone, surpassing the 60 million gas limit for its mainnet blocks. This marks the highest level the network has seen in four years and represents a pivotal step towards enhancing transaction processing capabilities and improving user experience.
Increasing the gas limit simply means that more operations, such as swaps, token transfers, and smart contract calls, can be included in each block. In practice, this helps alleviate congestion during peak periods and enables the network to handle a larger volume of activity at the base layer.
In March 2024, Ethereum developers initiated an effort to increase the network’s gas limit, claiming that the change could help scale Ethereum. Ethereum developers Eric Connor and Mariano Conti created an initiative called Pump The Gas to raise the Ethereum gas limit, which they said would reduce transaction fees on the layer-1 blockchain. The movement gained momentum in December 2024 as validators started signaling an increase in gas limits. The community rallied to increase the maximum amount of gas allowed for transactions to be included in a single Ethereum block.
The gas limit increase comes ahead of a forthcoming major network upgrade, called Fusaka, which aims to improve Ethereum’s scalability. On Oct. 29, the upgrade made its way into the Hoodi testnet, the final step before its mainnet debut on Dec. 3.
Ethereum community leaders view the jump to a 60 million gas limit as just the beginning of a broader expansion of the network’s execution capacity. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin pointed to the potential for continued growth over the next year, but in a more targeted and less uniform way. He also highlighted a more refined form of scaling, which involves larger blocks but smarter pricing to ensure that the network can expand safely without introducing new problems.
This achievement is attributed to the combined efforts of development teams, researchers, and ecosystem contributors who have worked in close coordination to achieve this goal.
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