Ethereum could get faster in January with gas limit rise to 80M
Ethereum could see another rise in transaction speed in January, with developers considering raising the gas limit to 80 million after the next blob parameter-only hard fork.
Transaction throughput on the Ethereum network is set to be boosted again in early January with the second blob parameter-only (BPO) hard fork expected to enable the Ethereum gas limit to rise from 60 million to 80 million.
Christine Kim, vice president of the research team at Galaxy Digital, shared the news in a post Tuesday, noting the confidence Nethermind developers Ben Adams and Kamil Chodala expressed in Monday’s Ethereum All Core Developers call that all testing should be complete before the next BPO hard fork — scheduled Jan. 7 — which is expected to increase blob capacity on the Ethereum mainnet by 66%.
It would follow the first BPO hard fork on Dec. 9, which increased blob capacity by 66%.
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