Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, said on Sunday that almost the majority of validators with absurd ETH running blockchain aimed at increasing gas limits, allowing them to increase transaction throughput on the blockchain.
According to the dashboard Gaslimit.pics, as of July 21, 2025, 49% of the ETH in validator piles are in favor of reaching the gas limit of 45 million units.
Gas limit signal on July 21, 2025 (gaslimit.pics)
In Ethereum, gas is a unit that measures the computational work required to perform a transaction or smart contract. Whenever users interact with the blockchain, they must pay a gasoline fee that covers the cost of using Ethereum computing resources. This ensures that users pay proportionately to the complexity of their actions.
Each block of Ethereum has a gas limit, which is the maximum amount of gas that can be consumed by all transactions within that block. If the total gas required in a pending transaction exceeds the block limit, some transactions will be deferred to future blocks. With limited space, transactions are more likely to compete for inclusion and those offering higher rates will be included first.
The move to bring up to 45 million people is up to 45 million as Ethereum’s native tokens (ETHs) surpassed $3,800 over the weekend, and large institutions deployed capital to use blockchain for infrastructure and other financial applications.
Gas limits were previously raised in February, when it was set at 36 million people. It was the first time since 2021 that it has been nurtured after more than half of the validators on the network supported the change without the need for a hard fork.
Ethereum’s core developers are keen to expand the blockchain to include more transactions, but have not stopped at this limit. In a message to Coindesk, Parithosh Jayanthri, DevOps Engineer at Ethereum Foundation, said: “There’s a lot to be planned for the next few years.”
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