Ethereum developers are considering increasing the L1 Gas limit fourfold as a key feature of the Fusaka Hard Fork.

PANews April 25 news, Ethereum core developers are considering increasing the Layer 1 Gas limit by four times, as a key feature of the next hard fork Fusaka after Pectra. On April 23, developer Sophia Gold proposed EIP 9678, suggesting to raise the Gas limit to 150 million during the Fusaka hard fork. On April 24, core developer Tim Beiko stated in a meeting summary that the ACDE meeting has discussed raising the Gas limit as a “key feature” of Fusaka. Developers have drafted an EIP, which is planned to be merged early next week and formally proposed at the next ACDE meeting. As work progresses, protocol internal changes may be needed to support a higher Gas limit. Even with the scope of the hard fork already defined, more EIPs still need to be added for Fusaka. The Pectra mainnet is scheduled to launch in May, and Fusaka may go live at the end of 2025. The developers stated that raising the Gas limit aims to expand Layer 1 execution capabilities without the need for new features, but it requires guidance from execution layer developers to test and fix client vulnerabilities, therefore it is reasonable to include it in the Hard Fork EIP. On February 4th, validators supported raising the network’s Gas limit, increasing the maximum Gas amount used for transactions in a single Ethereum block. Ycharts data shows that this value is currently slightly below 36 million.