Ethereum’s gas limit could skyrocket by 100 times if a new plan gets the green light.
Dankrad Feist, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, dropped the idea on April 27 with EIP-9698.
Starting around June 1, Ethereum’s gas limit would slowly grow, following a steady plan for four years.
First, it would scale up by 10x over two years. Then, another big 10x leap would happen.
Feist says it will make Ethereum smoother and ready for stronger hardware and better tech.
Right now, Ethereum manages about 20 transactions per second (TPS).
With this gas boost, Ethereum could blast up to 2,000 TPS — way closer to Solana’s speed.
(Solana currently hits 800-1,050 non-vote TPS and can, in theory, reach 65,000 TPS!)
If approved, Ethereum’s gas limit would jump from 36 million to a jaw-dropping 3.6 billion.
That’s about 6,000 transactions packed into each block.
Feist’s plan follows a February gas limit bump and another major one back in 2021.
He admits some nodes might struggle at first, but the slow rollout gives everyone time to catch up.
Meanwhile, devs are cooking up another idea under EIP-9678 to 4x the gas limit via the Fusaka fork.
Fusaka might hit late 2025, but the next upgrade, Pectra, is just around the corner in May!
(Footing: TPS = Transactions Per Second, Gas Limit = Maximum computing power per block on Ethereum, EIP = Ethereum Improvement Proposal.)