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Ethereum has reached a major milestone in its base-layer scalability, with the network’s mainnet block gas limit rising to 60 million, marking the highest execution capacity seen in more than four years.&nbsp;
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 昨天，以太坊主网的 Gas Limit 正式提升至 60M，相较年初已实现翻倍。而过去近四年间，这个数字一直被谨慎地维持在 30M 左右。 是什么原因让以太坊开发者在今年突然决定如此激进地推动 L1 扩容？我认为，这背后的关键在于一场从谨慎保守到「实证科学」驱动的扩容范式转移。 过去，以太坊对提高 Gas… <a href="https://t.co/JaNGNXxaSH" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/JaNGNXxaSH</a>— Zhixiong Pan (@nake13) <a href="https://twitter.com/nake13/status/1993939235297194418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">November 27, 2025</a>
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The increase follows a surge in validator signaling throughout November, with data from Gas Limit Pics showing more than 513,000 validators voting in favor of the higher configuration, enough to trigger an automatic network-wide adjustment.
The <a href="https://gaslimit.pics/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">gas limit</a> essentially determines how much computation a block can contain. By raising it from 45 million to 60 million, Ethereum now allows more on-chain activity per block, including decentralized exchange swaps, smart contract calls, token transfers, and on-chain DeFi operations.&nbsp;
In practical terms, this upgrade reduces congestion during peak periods and meaningfully increases throughput at Layer 1. This shift represents a departure from Ethereum’s historically conservative approach to L1 scaling.&nbsp;
For several years, concerns over state bloat, block propagation delays, and execution-layer bottlenecks kept gas-limit increases on hold. But that stance began to change in 2024, driven by technical advancements and a transition toward what <a href="https://hash.media/hashdesk/blackrock-moves-toward-staked-ethereum-etf-with-new-trust/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum</a> developers describe as an “empirical science” approach to scaling.
Key to unlocking the higher limit was EIP-7623, which increased the gas cost of calldata to cap worst-case block sizes. Developers also optimized performance across major execution clients, including Nethermind, Erigon, and Reth, identifying and improving bottlenecks such as ModExp via proposals like EIP-7883.&nbsp;
As a result, clients are now able to process 60-million-gas blocks comfortably within the protocol’s 4-second consensus window.
Stress tests on Sepolia and Hoodi testnets further confirmed that the network could handle higher block loads without propagation delays or increased orphan rates.
Looking ahead, Ethereum core developers are already signaling openness to exploring 70M–100M gas limits, though further upgrades, particularly in cryptographic operation efficiency and state-growth management, will be required.
The 60M milestone marks one of Ethereum’s most significant base-layer performance boosts since 2021 and lays the groundwork for a new phase of L1 scaling alongside continued rollup-centric development.
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