The Ethereum All-Core Devs’ (ACD), held yesterday their final 2024 call, provided key updates regarding plans for raising the gas limit as well as progress on the Pectra Upgrade. The community revealed its ongoing commitment to balance EIP implementation with consensus layer coordination, execution-layer change, and EIP. “build-in-public” Iterative improvements are a form of improvement.
Ethereum developers have taken a calculated but bold step to increase the gas cap, just as they did three years earlier, when it was increased by 20%. Although the proposal is for a 36-million gas increase, technical restrictions temper enthusiasm. This is due to the layer of consensus. “GOSSIP_MAX_SIZE,” The validator blocks are limited to 10 MiB or 10.48MB.
On the Mekong testnet — used for Pectra fork testing — the gas limit has already increased to 36 million, offering a stable testing ground for network performance under higher limits.
Developers warned against raising the gas cap on the mainnet beyond 40,000,000 without first addressing gossip layer constraints. Prysm is one of the validator clients that faces challenges when it comes to dynamically adjusting their gas limit.
A gas limit increase does not have to be awaited until a “hard fork” but validators who support such a change can indicate their support. Only 16.8% did so to date but there is a trend upward. PumpTheGas.org aims at building more momentum.
Pectra remains at the center of Ethereum 2025’s roadmap. The developers are on schedule to release it in Q1, with a Devnet-5 rollout by the end of this year. On the call, EIP 7742 was replaced with EIP 7840 in order to allow for more flexibility. “blob counts” — a key element for scaling Ethereum and supporting layer-2 rollups.
In allowing developers the freedom to choose their own maximum and targeted blob numbers, it is possible for the network to maintain a balance between scalability and stability. The separation allows for a better optimization of block capacity, without overburdening the network.
EIP-2537 is also focused on gas repricing, as BLS operations are vital for Ethereum’s cryptographic computations. Gas costs are adjusted for mathematical operations. The goal is to ensure that resources-intensive operations like redundant operations and resource-intensive operations can be fairly priced. These updates increase network efficiency, improve resource utilization and make developers more cost-fair.
In January, a working group on EVM pricing will be launched. The working group is tasked with harmonizing the gas calculations for various Ethereum operations.
EIP 4444, which plans the end of pre merge history for May 1st 2025, will require additional testing before it can be finalized.
In addition, developers are asking for community feedback on the clearer node validation requirements. Another proposal is to redefine “Meta” The EIPs that are solely processes could be used to simplify the management of hardforks.
It was clear that Ethereum took a deliberate and cooperative approach to its development. Pectra and the gas limit proposal reflect Ethereum’s aim to increase its capabilities, while maintaining stability.
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