Ethereum has formulated further scaling plans for 2026 after completing the Pectra upgrade in 2025. Co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on X (formerly Twitter) that the block gas limit of Ethereum is expected to increase by 5 times next year, achieving a more "targeted rise" to enhance network throughput while keeping Layer 2 (L2) transaction costs low. The gas limit is a key parameter that determines the number of transactions each block can handle. Currently, Ethereum's gas limit per block is 60 million gas, which has doubled since the community's first call for an increase a year ago. Raising the gas limit allows more transactions to be packed into blocks, but heavy and inefficient operations can increase costs, thereby preventing nodes from being overloaded with data storage.