Ethereum validators urge to doubling the block capacity without hard fork

A significant part of the Ethereum validators supports a proposal to almost double the block gas limit of the network-an adjustment that could increase the throughput of Layer 1 without the need for a protocol upgrade.

Sea Data From the dashboard of the Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter, over 150,000 validators-about 15% of the network-currently signal their support for increasing the gas upper limit from 36 million to 60 million units.

Gas stands for the computing power required for the processing of transactions, and the gas upper limit determines how much of it can be used up per block.

In contrast to Hard Forks, this change is gradually implemented because the validators adapt their configurations independently of one another. As soon as a majority exceeds the 50 percent threshold, the new border automatically comes into force.

Ethereum's gas limit was last updated in February when it was increased from 30 to 36 million. Before that there was the last major change in 2021.

While the increase could reduce overload and support higher transaction volumes, some developers warn that it could also burden the Node infrastructure and possibly impair the network performance.

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