Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano said the goal of significantly increasing Ethereum's gas limit to 180 million next yr is more of a baseline fairly than a best-case scenario.
“I believe that’s the ground, that’s the minimum, I believe we are able to transcend that,” Sassano said during an interview on the Bankless podcast on Friday, only a day after Ethereum’s gas limit, which represents the utmost amount of labor the network allows in each block, was raised from 45 million to 60 million.
“The general consensus amongst key developers and researchers is that they wish to aim for not less than a three-fold increase within the gas limit in the subsequent few years,” he said.
Sassano noted that some Ethereum core developers are even discussing a possible fivefold increase within the gas limit next yr.
The ETH gas limit goal could be achieved through reprice transactions
This is a very important development for Ethereum users as a better gas limit allows Ethereum to integrate more work into each block, including swaps, token transfers and smart contract calls.
Anthony Sassano spoke with Ryan Adams on the Bankless podcast. Source: Bankless
Sassano said developers can achieve this by rebalancing transaction costs, making some activities on Ethereum cheaper while increasing the fee of others.
“We can reduce the fee of an easy ETH transfer from 21,000 gas to six,000 gas, a value reduction of over 70%, while keeping the gas limit the identical,” he said, explaining that by redistributing costs in this fashion and repricing other activities, the network could ultimately support higher gas limits.
“We're mainly talking about improving efficiencies here,” Sassano said. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was amongst those in favor of a possible fivefold increase, suggesting higher costs for operations which might be “relatively inefficient” to process.
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is predicted to happen next week
Sassano co-authored the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) with Ethereum core developer Ben Adams, and the 2 plan to incorporate it in Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade, expected in the primary half of 2026.
Several Ethereum developers recently commented on the network's recent increase to a limit of 60 million gases, a move that was supported by greater than 513,000 validators. Adams was amongst those that said in an X post on Friday: “Remember when 'Double L1 Gas' sounded spicy on Twitter?”
“The Ethereum gas cap debate went from 'too dangerous' to 'already energetic' in lower than a yr,” Adams said. Ethereum core developer Toni Wahrstätter expressed the same sentiment, saying: “That’s a 2x increase in a single yr – and it’s only the start.”
This comes ahead of an upcoming major network upgrade called Fusaka, which goals to enhance Ethereum's scalability. On October twenty ninth, the upgrade hit the Hoodi testnet, the ultimate step before its mainnet debut on December third.
