Ethereum could get faster in January with gas limit rise to 80M

cointelegraphPubblicato 2025-12-18Pubblicato ultima volta 2025-12-18

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Ethereum's transaction throughput is set to increase in early January with a planned gas limit rise from 60 million to 80 million. This will be enabled by the second blob parameter-only (BPO) hard fork, scheduled for January 7, following a similar upgrade in December that also increased blob capacity by 66%. Blobs store data off-chain, reducing gas costs and improving scalability without overloading the network. While this upgrade won't match the speed of chains like Solana, it enhances Ethereum's efficiency as a secure settlement layer. Developers will confirm the final plans on January 5. Increasing the gas limit has been a key focus in 2025, with previous raises in February, July, and November. The long-term goal is to reach a gas limit of 180 million by the end of 2026.

Transaction throughput on the Ethereum network is set to be boosted again in early January with the second blob parameter-only (BPO) hard fork expected to enable the Ethereum gas limit to rise from 60 million to 80 million.

Christine Kim, vice president of the research team at Galaxy Digital, shared the news in a post Tuesday, noting the confidence Nethermind developers Ben Adams and Kamil Chodala expressed in Monday’s Ethereum All Core Developers call that all testing should be complete before the next BPO hard fork — scheduled Jan. 7 — which is expected to increase blob capacity on the Ethereum mainnet by 66%.

It would follow the first BPO hard fork on Dec. 9, which increased blob capacity by 66%.

Ethereum Foundation developer operations engineer Barnabas Busa, however, noted that two client-level optimizations are needed before another increase in the block gas limit — namely, partial blob responses on the execution layer and the max blobs flag on the consensus layer.

Blobs on Ethereum are large data chunks that store transaction and rollup data off-chain, lowering gas costs and increasing scalability without bloating the network.

Optimizing blob capacity to raise the gas limit directly increases the number of transactions and smart contract operations that can fit in each Ethereum block, boosting overall throughput while potentially lowering fees.

While raising Ethereum’s gas limit to 80 million won’t match the speed or low costs of layer 1s like Solana or Sui, it strengthens Ethereum’s appeal as a secure settlement and execution layer without significantly compromising decentralization — arguably its greatest advantage over competitors.

Ethereum devs will confirm plans early in the new year

Participants in the weekly Ethereum All Core Developers meetup will reconvene on Jan. 5 to confirm when to raise the gas limit following the second BPO hard fork.

Increasing Ethereum’s gas limit has been a priority this year

Increasing Ethereum’s gas limit to expand the network’s execution capacity has been a major focus for developers and researchers this year, with three increases.

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The first occurred in early February, raising it from 30 million to 35 million, the second in July to 45 million, and the third in late November to 60 million.

Members of the Ethereum developer and research community have expressed a common goal to raise the network’s gas limit to 180 million by the end of 2026.

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