Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist has proposed a transformative improvement plan that could increase the Ethereum network’s gas limit by 100 times, potentially allowing for 2,000 transactions per second (TPS). This plan will implement a “deterministic gas limit growth schedule” starting at epoch 369017, around June 1, 2025. The proposal outlines a gradual increase in the gas limit by a factor of 10 over two years (164,250 epochs), followed by a final tenfold jump.
According to Feist, the mechanism aims to establish a predictable, sustainable trajectory for gas limit expansion, tied closely to advancements in hardware and protocol optimization. Ethereum clients will still need to vote on the proposal before it can be implemented.
“By introducing a predictable exponential growth pattern as a client default, this EIP encourages a sustainable and transparent gas limit trajectory, aligned with expected advancements in hardware and protocol efficiency,”
Feist explained.
Currently, Ethereum can reach up to 20 TPS when handling simple transactions. A 100x increase could theoretically position Ethereum’s base layer at around 2,000 TPS — placing it in a stronger position against faster blockchains like Solana, which processes between 800 and 1,050 non-vote TPS and boasts a theoretical limit of 65,000 TPS.
Under EIP-9698, Ethereum’s gas limit would expand from 36 million to 3.6 billion, potentially allowing around 6,000 transactions per block. This marks a bold step after Ethereum validators agreed to raise the gas limit from 30 million to 36 million in February, the first adjustment since the London upgrade in August 2021.
While acknowledging the risks of a rapid increase — including potential stress on less-optimized nodes and longer block propagation times — Feist believes the gradual pace of the change offers developers and node operators ample time to adapt.
Meanwhile, Ethereum developers are also considering another major gas limit increase under EIP-9678 as part of the Fusaka hard fork, projected to go live in late 2025. Before then, the next major Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is scheduled to hit the mainnet in May.
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