Ethereum is expected to raise the gas limit to 80 million in January 2026
On December 18, according to Cointelegraph, the throughput of the Ethereum network will be further enhanced next month, as developers plan to increase the gas limit from 60 million to 80 million in January. Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital, shared a summary of the core developers' meeting on Monday, where a representative from Nethermind stated that developers should be prepared to advance the gas limit increase after the next BPO hard fork on January 7. However, Barnabas Busa, a developer operations engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, pointed out that before further raising the block gas limit, two client-side optimizations need to be completed, namely the execution layer's Blob response and the consensus layer's maximum Blob flag setting. All participants of the core Ethereum developers' meeting will gather again on January 5 to confirm when to raise the gas limit after the second BPO hard fork. The first BPO hard fork took place on December 9, increasing blob capacity by 66%; the second hard fork scheduled for January 7 is expected to increase it by another 66%. Ethereum developers and members of the research community have reached a consensus with the goal of raising the network's gas limit to 180 million by the end of 2026.
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