The Fusaka upgrade is imminent, the gas limit of Ethereum blocks has been raised to 60 million, Vitalik: it may be further increased in the future.

According to GasLimit.pics data, the Ethereum community, driven by Decentralized Finance (DeFi) users and developers, has raised the block Gas limit from 45 million to 60 million. Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter announced on the X forum that this is the result of a year-long effort by the community, achieving a doubling of the Gas limit within a year. This adjustment will take effect automatically on November 25, with more than half of the validators voting in favor, in accordance with the current consensus rules of Ethereum.

Independent blockchain researcher Pan Zhixiong pointed out that this improvement is due to three aspects: EIP-7623 introduced a protocol-level block size guarantee mechanism; cross-client optimizations increased Gas throughput; and testnet validation showed stable and reliable block propagation under high load. Pan stated that these improvements achieved a more proactive L1 scaling without affecting network stability.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that this upgrade marks a shift towards targeted optimization rather than simply increasing network capacity. Future adjustments may simultaneously increase Gas fees for computation-intensive operations to maintain network efficiency and throughput while scaling.

GrowThePie data shows that the Ethereum scaling network has set a record for transaction volume in the past 24 hours, reaching 31,000 transactions per second. Perp DEX Lighter leads with a throughput of about 5,455 TPS, followed closely by Base at 137 TPS, while other aggregators contribute stable but smaller throughput.

The increase in the Gas limit coincides with the upcoming Fusaka hard fork, with an official target date of December 3. Fusaka has been activated on the testnet and has launched a $2 million audit competition. The core PeerDAS of Fusaka has redesigned data availability sampling, which has been called by Vitalik Buterin a key to Ethereum's scalability. It also includes client updates, improvements to the consensus mechanism, and security enhancements, laying the groundwork for the next phase of Ethereum's scaling.