Ethereum increases gas limit threefold is just a "floor level, it can be higher" — Sassano

Ethereum education expert, Anthony Sassano, stated that the goal of significantly increasing the gas limit of Ethereum to 180 million next year is merely a baseline (, not an optimal scenario.

He explained: “Core developers and researchers all agree that they want to at least triple the gas limit in the coming years.”

Sassano also emphasized that some Ethereum developers are discussing the possibility of raising the gas limit by 5 times within the next year.

Increase gas limit by re-evaluating transactions

This is an important step for Ethereum users, as a higher gas limit allows the network to process more transactions in each block, including token swaps, ETH transfers, and smart contract calls.

Sassano stated that developers can achieve this by adjusting transaction fees, lowering the price of some activities on Ethereum while increasing the costs for other activities.

“We can reduce the basic cost of transferring ETH from 21,000 gas down to 6,000 gas, which is a reduction of over 70%, while still maintaining the gas limit,” he explained. By reallocating costs and repricing other activities, the network can ultimately support a higher gas limit.

“We are essentially exchanging between performance,” Sassano said. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also supported the possibility of a fivefold increase, suggesting raising costs for “relatively inefficient” activities.

Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade is expected next week

Sassano, along with core Ethereum developer Ben Adams, is a co-author of Ethereum Improvement Proposal )EIP(, and they plan to integrate it into Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade, expected in the first half of 2026.

Recently, many Ethereum developers have commented on raising the gas limit to 60 million, which is supported by over 513,000 validators. Adams wrote on X on Friday: “Remember when 'double L1 gas' sounded really 'hot' on Twitter?”

He said: “The debate over Ethereum's gas limit has shifted from 'too risky' to 'deployed' in less than a year.” Toni Wahrstätter, a core Ethereum developer, also noted: “That's a doubling in one year — and this is just the beginning.”

This step comes before Ethereum conducts its upcoming major network upgrade named Fusaka, aimed at improving scalability. On October 29, this upgrade was deployed on the Hoodi testnet, the final step before the mainnet launch on December 3.

Thạch Sanh