Ethereum plans to increase the gas limit per block to 80 million starting January 2026.
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Ethereum has never progressed in leaps and bounds. Its evolution resembles more a series of adjustments, sometimes invisible to the general public, but crucial in the long run. And January could mark a new stage in this patient strategy. In fact, the protocol developers are considering increasing the gas limit per block to 80 million, compared to the current 60 million.
In brief
Ethereum developers plan to raise the gas limit per block from 60 to 80 million after the BPO update on January 7.
Two client-side optimizations are still needed before the effective increase, namely, the handling of partial blob responses and the implementation of the "max blobs" indicator.
A technical rise with very real effects
Ethereum developers plan to increase the gas limit per block. Since November, this limit had been set at 60 million. Now it will be raised to 80 million starting January 2026. This measure will come into effect after the upcoming major update of Blob Parameter Only (BPO), scheduled for January 7.
This would allow for a greater number of transactions and smart contract executions in each block. This follows the successive adjustments made in 2024, after several increases in the gas limit during the year.
However, this development depends on the implementation of two technical optimizations on the client side. According to Barnabas Busa, an engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, partial blob responses on the execution layer and the "max blobs" indicator on the consensus layer must be finalized before new increases are applied.
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