Ethereum has increased the gas limit per block to 60 million as a coordinated, interim capacity boost driven by validator support and client optimizations. The change aims to relieve congestion and reduce transaction costs while testing continues for Fusaka, meaning it is a stop-gap enhancement rather than the final scalability solution.
The raise provides temporary throughput relief, but long-term scalability rests on Fusaka
The network activated an increase from 45M to 60M gas per block as short-term relief during Fusaka preparation. More than 50% of validators signaled support, boosting L1 capacity and potentially lowering fees by expanding block space supply, though larger blocks increase computational and bandwidth demands for nodes.
This additional load affects smaller operators. If low-resource nodes fall out, decentralization could weaken, so the community is closely monitoring propagation and stability risks. Developers have introduced optimizations in clients like Geth, and EIP-7935 enables this adjustment as an operational patch without replacing deeper structural changes.
Fusaka represents the reengineering phase intended for sustained scalability. Targets point toward a gas limit environment near 150M per block alongside significant fee reductions, higher throughput and more efficient rollup execution. Testing continues on Holesky and Hoodi, with Hoodi scheduled for October 28, 2025 and mainnet activation planned for December 3, 2025 supported by a $2M bug bounty program.
Key features of the upgrade illustrate the structural shift. PeerDAS (EIP-7594) enables data availability through distributed sampling, reducing validator load and boosting rollup throughput capacity. Verkle Trees shrink proof sizes and ease requirements for light clients, lowering hardware barriers. Blob scaling via BPO forks (EIP-7892) progressively raises throughput targets, while EIPs 7825, 7934, 7918 and 7907 introduce execution, blob fee and contract size reforms.
The increase to 60M gas is a tactical expansion while Ethereum prepares Fusaka — the upgrade expected to define the next phase of scaling, cost efficiency and node participation.