The plan is to increase the gas limit fivefold while increasing gas costs fivefold for operations that are expensive to process on-chain.
These operations include creating new storage locations with SSTORE, certain other SSTORE operations, precompilations (except elliptic curve ones), CALLS to large contracts, complex arithmetic instructions, and call data. The goal is to increase overall network throughput while preventing inefficient operations from overloading nodes.
Why targeted optimization is important
Ethereum’s gas system is a way to price computing work on the blockchain. Gas costs ensure that users pay for the resources they consume and also protect the network from spam or overly complex operations. By increasing the gas limit, Ethereum will allow more transactions per block, thereby increasing throughput. However, increasing the cost of expensive operations ensures that heavy and inefficient tasks do not congest the network.
Just a year after the community began pushing for higher gas limits, Ethereum is now operating with a gas block limit of 60 million.
That’s a 2x increase in a single year – and that’s just the beginning.
Greetings to all client teams, researchers involved and @nanexcool And @econoar For… pic.twitter.com/5JB8FoiACP
— Toni Wahrstätter ⟠ (@nero_eth) November 26, 2025
For example, developers building decentralized applications often interact with storage using SSSTORE, a command that writes data to Ethereum state. SSTORE operations are resource intensive and uncontrolled usage can slow down the network. By adjusting costs specifically for these operations, Ethereum encourages more efficient coding practices and avoids bottlenecks. This approach reflects the shift from maximizing raw transaction capacity to smarter, more sustainable network management.
Expect continued but more focused/less uniform growth next year.
For example. one possible future is: a 5x increase in the gas limit as well as a 5x increase in gas cost for operations that are relatively inefficient to process
Potential targets for such increases (my current view):…
– vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) November 26, 2025
Targeted optimization aligns with a broader trend in blockchain design: focusing on quality over quantity. According to data from Etherscan, Ethereum currently processes around 1.2 million transactions per day, and complex smart contracts are already significantly contributing to network congestion. Developers and investors are closely watching Ethereum’s experiments aimed at improving efficiency without compromising decentralization.
Learn more about Ethereum
Ethereum just hit a new all-time high for peak throughput, processing 31,083 transactions in a single second, highlighting rapid progress in network scaling. This milestone comes as many upgrades and innovations are on the horizon, including Fusaka, Peerdas, ZKEthereum, blob scaling, EIP-7928 and ZK proving latency reduction, all designed to improve transaction efficiency and reduce network bottlenecks.
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Ethereum just reached a new all-time high for maximum TPS.
31,083 transactions in 1 SECOND.
(h/t @web3_data)fusaka, peerdas, ZKethereum, blob scaling, EIP-7928 and ZK proving latency reduction will all be available soon.
Ethereum evolves with an exponential curve. pic.twitter.com/XMuHyCE789
– Joseph Young (@iamjosephyoung) November 26, 2025
With these improvements, Ethereum’s capacity is growing on an exponential curve, demonstrating that the network is not only keeping pace with demand, but also laying the foundation for more complex decentralized applications and wider adoption in the years to come.
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