Ethereum Gas Limit Set to Triple Next Year: What You Need to Know!

Ethereum expert Anthony Sassano has big news! He believes that the plan to raise Ethereum’s gas limit to a whopping 180 million next year is just the starting point—not the end goal.

“I think that’s the floor, that’s the minimum. We can definitely aim even higher than that,” Sassano shared in a recent chat on the Bankless podcast. This was right after Ethereum’s gas limit was boosted from 45 million to 60 million.

According to him, the core developers and researchers agree that they want to see at least a threefold increase in the gas limit over the next few years.

Excitingly, some developers are even considering a potential fivefold increase in the gas limit within just a year!

How We Can Reach the ETH Gas Limit Goal

This is fantastic news for Ethereum users! A higher gas limit means more room for activities like swaps, token transfers, and smart contract calls to be processed in each block.

Sassano explained that developers can help achieve this by tweaking transaction prices, making some transactions cheaper while increasing costs for others.

“We could drop the basic ETH transfer cost from 21,000 gas to just 6,000 gas—over a 70% reduction—while keeping the gas limit steady,” he mentioned. By redistributing transaction costs in this way, the network could ultimately support a higher gas limit.

“We’re essentially trading efficiencies here,” Sassano noted. Even Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is in favor of the potential fivefold increase, suggesting that higher costs should apply to processes that are “inefficient.”

Heads Up: Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade is Coming Soon!

Sassano teamed up with Ethereum developer Ben Adams to draw up an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) and they plan to include it in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, set to roll out in the first half of 2026.

Recently, several developers discussed the recent bump to a 60 million gas limit, with over 513,000 validators supporting the change. Adams even tweeted about it, reminiscing, “Remember when ‘double L1 gas’ sounded spicy on Twitter?”

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“The Ethereum gas limit debate shifted from ‘too risky’ to ‘already live’ in under a year,” Adams remarked. Echoing this sentiment, developer Toni Wahrstätter said, “That’s a 2x increase in just one year—and it’s only the beginning!”

This progress comes ahead of a significant network upgrade, named Fusaka, which aims to enhance Ethereum’s scalability. On October 29, the upgrade entered the Hoodi testnet, marking the last step before its mainnet launch on December 3.

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