Ethereum Validators Greenlight Gas Limit Increase to 60 Million

Over 150,000 Ethereum validators (15% of the network) have supported an increase of the gas limit to 60 million, up from the current 36 million.

This adjustment will enhance block throughput, allowing more transactions and data to be processed within each block.

The change will take effect automatically once it receives approval from more than 50% of network participants. Notably, this will not require a hard fork, as validators will manually configure their nodes.

Earlier, the gas limit was raised in February (from 30 million to 36 million) and again in 2021—going from 15 million to 30 million.

Some developers caution that increasing the limit could result in greater strain on node operators’ equipment and may potentially affect network performance.

As a reminder, on May 19, co-founder Vitalik Buterin suggested reducing the size of node states.