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Ethereum Lifts Block Gas Limit to 60 Million as Fusaka Nears

Validator signaling activated the change, setting the stage for PeerDAS in the upcoming Fusaka upgrade.

Overview

  • The limit rose from 45 million to 60 million on November 25 after a majority of validators signaled support, updating automatically without a hard fork.
  • Fusaka is scheduled for December 3 and introduces PeerDAS to improve rollup data availability following testnet trials.
  • Layer-2 networks processed about 31,000 transactions per second recently, with rollups like Lighter leading throughput and Base contributing steady volume.
  • Vitalik Buterin said scaling in 2026 will focus on targeted gas repricing of specific operations rather than another uniform increase.
  • Researchers noted roughly a doubling of capacity over the past year while warning that higher limits increase load on block builders and full nodes.