Ethereum Foundation Researchers Dankrad Feist on April 27, suggested a new Ethereum (EIP), EIP-9698 EIP-9698 improvement proposal, which could theoretical to grow Ethereum mainnet gas limit up to 100 times and increase the number of transactions per second to 2,000 TPS.
Feist suggested The EIP-9698 that introduces a deterministic gas limit schedule starting June 1 (Epoch 369,017), gradually increasing the gas 10X limit within 2 years-then a final 10x to complete the increase of 100x. If adopted, TPS of Ethereum (transactions per second) can jump to about 2,000 TPS – a massive walk from the current ~ 20 tps.
Ethereum Devs had previously suggested EIP-9678, an increase in the 4x gas limit as a key feature for Fusaka Hard Fork, L1 scaling with no new features but exposing client bugs.
Feist delivers Roadmap to a 100x gas limit increase for Ethereum
schedule of gas limit growth schedule to increase 100x within 4 years
– Jon Charbonneau 🇺🇸 (@jon_charb) April 27, 2025
According to FEIST, the current gas limit mechanism depends on the uncoordinated and unpredictable voting of the miner/operator, but the suggested deterministic schedule of gas limit growth will increase the gas limit per beacon chain-which aligns with a factor-of-10 increase of every ~ 164,250 period (approximately 2 years). Ethereum clients vote to increase gas limit according to a schedule schedule unless it is clearly confected if not by the user. The fuel limit schedule will stop after 4 years if an updated gas increase schedule should be reported to be decided and focused on.
The feist suggests introducing a deterministic gas limit schedule starting on June 1 (Epoch 369,017). He admitted that EIP-9698 will encourage a sustainable and transparent gas limit by introducing an unpredictable growth pattern as a default client. Feist added that this is aligned with improvements that are expected of hardware and protocol efficiency.
The EF researcher also explained that the default gas limit vote has been revealed at the start of each new beacon chain. He added that clients automatically vote for the calculated gas limit using the existing gas voting mechanism. However, Feist noted that users can override this default by setting a manu -free gas limit policy on client adjustment.
“This EIP maintains the current Ethereum gas voting mechanism but enhances it with an unpredictable and trajectory trajectory … The exponential growth model ensures gradually but significant increases, allowing the network to adapt while targeting the ambitious goals of throughput.”
~ Dankrad feistResearchers at the Ethereum Foundation
However, the Feist warned that a rapid increase in gas limit could emphasize less optimized nodes and increase block-running times. He said the exponential schedule with gradual additions each time would provide node operators and developers a lot of time to adapt and optimize.
Baterin suggests an increase of 10x gas limit to support L2 growth
The co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Blerin on February 14th suggested a 10x increase in Ethereum gas limitation to support L2 growth and resistance to censorship. Buterin argued that increasing L1 gas capacity of Ethereum was required to support transaction integration and application development when most of the activity occurred in L2. He showed calculations suggesting that a 10x increase in L1 capacity would maintain major network operations as applications moved to L2 solutions.
Buterin's review developed in a recent increase in L1 gas limit from 30 million to 36 million, which increased the capacity of approximately 20%. He noted that further increasing gas limit enabled by improvement of efficiency in Ethereum clients could reduce history storage from EIP-4444. Buterin also pointed out that the final adoption of stateless clients can offer long-term benefits.
Buterin also claimed that the resistance to censorship remained an important operation. He has shown that bypass transactions -designed to overcome potential L2 censorships -may cost approximately $ 4.50, but these costs can be driven by scalving L1 capacity by approximately 4.5x, ensuring that proper transactions reached the blockchain immediately, even under the blocks.
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