
Scaling vs. Security: Navigating Ethereum’s Gas-Limit Proposals in 2025
Overview
Ethereum core devs are actively debating two complementary ideas to boost Layer 1 capacity: a one-time fourfold jump to 150 million gas per block via EIP-9678 targeted for the Fusaka hard fork, and an exponential, client-default schedule under EIP-9698 (the “100× over four years” plan) to automatically raise the