Data: Over 30% of Ethereum validators indicate support for increasing the block Gas limit

Data compiled by Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter shows that over 30% of Ethereum validators support increasing the block Gas limit—a key parameter determining the network's transaction processing capacity. Currently, the Gas limit for Ethereum is 30 million, with a third of validators suggesting that the Ethereum block Gas limit should be raised from 30 million to 40 million Gas. Validators proposing and validating blocks can modify their node configuration to indicate support for raising the Gas limit without needing a hard fork. Once more than 50% of validators agree, the block Gas limit will automatically adjust to the next agreed level, targeting at 40 million Gas. Last year, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also suggested an increase of 33%. Recognizing the need for increased capacity led to an initiative called "Pump the Gas" last year advocating for raising the gas cap. This initiative was led by Ethereum developer Eric Connor and former MakerDAO smart contract head Mariano Conti aiming to popularize understanding about gas limits and its role in improving scalability within Etherum community. The timeline for increasing gas limits remains unclear yet after implementing proto-danksharding (blobs) during last year's Dencun upgrade which reduced urgency around lifting gas caps as blobs provided new data storage and management methods alleviating some scalability issues especially useful for Layer-2 rollups but if demand grows over time from decentralized applications on ethereum then it would become necessary to raise gas caps.(The Block)