Ethereum Foundation researcher proposes to increase Ethereum gas limit 100 times in 4 years

Dankrad Feist, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, proposed the EIP-9698 on April 27th, planning to introduce the "deterministic gas limit growth plan" from epoch 369017 (around June 1). This is a four-year plan, with the proposal suggesting that the limit will gradually increase by a factor of 10 in the first two years (i.e. 164,250 epochs), until a final tenfold adjustment is made. Theoretically, if the gas limit increases by 100 times, Ethereum's TPS is expected to increase to 2000 transactions. The proposal must be approved by client voting before it can be implemented.

This scalability attempt is another important development following the increase in gas limit from 30 million to 36 million in February. Feist pointed out that the progressive increase plan allows enough optimization time for node operators. At the same time, developers are testing the EIP-9678 proposal, which plans to implement a fourfold increase in gas limit in the Fusaka upgrade at the end of 2025.