The plan involves raising the gas limit by five times while also increasing gas costs fivefold for operations that are expensive to process on-chain.
These operations include creating new storage slots with SSTORE, certain other SSTORE operations, precompiles (except elliptic-curve ones), CALLs to large contracts, complex arithmetic instructions, and calldata. The goal is to boost overall network throughput while preventing inefficient operations from overloading nodes.
Why Targeted Optimisation Matters
Ethereum’s gas system is a way of pricing computational work on the blockchain. Gas costs ensure that users pay for the resources they consume, and they also protect the network from spam or overly complex operations. By raising the gas limit, Ethereum will allow more transactions per block, effectively increasing throughput. However, increasing the cost of expensive operations ensures that heavy, inefficient tasks do not clog the network.
Just a year after the community started pushing for higher gas limits, Ethereum is now running with a 60M block gas limit.
That’s a 2× increase in a single year — and it’s only the beginning.
H/t to all client teams, the researchers involved, and to @nanexcool and @econoar for… pic.twitter.com/5JB8FoiACP
— Toni Wahrstätter ⟠ (@nero_eth) November 26, 2025
For example, developers creating decentralised applications often interact with storage using SSTORE, a command that writes data to Ethereum’s state. SSTORE operations are resource-intensive, and unchecked usage can slow down the network. By adjusting costs specifically for these operations, Ethereum encourages more efficient coding practices and prevents bottlenecks. This approach reflects a shift from maximising raw transaction capacity toward smarter, more sustainable network management.
Expect continued growth but more targeted / less uniform growth for next year.
eg. one possible future is: 5x gas limit increase together with 5x gas cost increase for operations that are relatively inefficient to process
Potential targets for such increases (my current view):… https://t.co/FkiTxJnEAq
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) November 26, 2025
Targeted optimisation aligns with a broader trend in blockchain design: focusing on quality over quantity. According to data from Etherscan, Ethereum currently handles around 1.2 million transactions per day, and complex smart contracts already contribute significantly to network congestion. Developers and investors are watching closely as Ethereum experiments with ways to improve efficiency without compromising decentralisation.
More About Ethereum
Ethereum just reached a new all-time high in peak throughput, processing 31,083 transactions in a single second, highlighting the network’s rapid scaling progress. This milestone comes as multiple upgrades and innovations are on the horizon, including Fusaka, Peerdas, ZKEthereum, blob scaling, EIP-7928, and ZK proving latency reduction, all designed to enhance transaction efficiency and reduce network bottlenecks.
gmgm ☕️
ethereum just hit a new ALL-TIME HIGH in peak TPS.
31,083 transactions in one SECOND.
(h/t @web3_data)fusaka, peerdas, ZKethereum, blob scaling, EIP-7928, and ZK proving latency reduction are all coming soon.
ethereum is scaling with an exponential curve. pic.twitter.com/XMuHyCE789
— Joseph Young (@iamjosephyoung) November 26, 2025
With these improvements, Ethereum’s capacity is growing along an exponential curve, demonstrating that the network is not only keeping pace with demand but also laying the groundwork for more complex decentralised applications and broader adoption in the coming years.
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