Ethereum Gas Limit Tripling Is the Floor, Says Anthony Sassano
Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano said the initiative to raise Ethereum’s gas limit to 180 million next year should be considered a baseline rather than an upper bound, coming a day after the network increased the parameter from 45 million to 60 million.
“I think that’s the floor, that’s the minimum, I think we can go higher than that,” Sassano said in an interview on the Bankless podcast on Friday.
He added that the broad view among core developers and researchers is to target at least a 3X increase in the gas limit over the next couple of years.
Sassano also noted that some Ethereum core developers are discussing the possibility of a fivefold increase within the next year.
Gas limit expansion may be enabled by transaction repricing
A higher gas limit enables the network to include more activity in each block, such as swaps, token transfers and smart contract executions.
Sassano said developers can pursue this goal by rebalancing transaction costs — making some operations cheaper while increasing costs for others. “We can lower the cost of a basic ETH transfer from 21,000 gas to 6,000 gas, which is an over 70% cost reduction, while keeping the gas limit the same,” he said, adding that redistributing costs in this way and repricing other activities could ultimately allow for higher gas limits. “We’re basically trading efficiencies here,” he said.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has also supported exploring a potential fivefold increase, suggesting higher costs for operations that are “relatively inefficient to process.”
Timeline for protocol upgrades
Sassano co-authored an Ethereum Improvement Proposal with core developer Ben Adams, aiming to include it in Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade, expected in the first half of 2026.
Several Ethereum developers recently commented on the increase to a 60 million gas limit, a change backed by more than 513,000 validators. Adams wrote on X on Friday, “Remember when ‘double L1 gas’ sounded spicy on Twitter?”
“The Ethereum gas limit debate went from ‘too risky’ to ‘already live’ in under a year,” Adams said. Echoing that view, Ethereum core developer Toni Wahrstätter said, “That’s a 2× increase in a single year — and it’s only the beginning.”
The change comes ahead of the Fusaka network upgrade, which is intended to improve scalability. On Oct. 29, the upgrade was deployed to the Hoodi testnet, the final step before its scheduled mainnet launch on Dec. 3.
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