21-7-2025 – Ethereum’s gas limit has exceeded 37.3 million units, with nearly half of its validators supporting a rise to 45 million, marking a significant step toward enhancing network scalability. This increase, reflecting a 3% jump from last week, aims to boost transaction capacity and reduce costs on Ethereum’s layer-1 blockchain.
The adjustment, the largest since February’s rise from 30 million to 36 million units, follows a grassroots “pump the gas” campaign launched in March 2024 to lower transaction fees. Data from GasLimits.pics shows 47.2% of staked validators back the expansion, with some blocks already proposing higher limits. This has driven Ethereum’s transactions per second (TPS) to nearly 18 over the weekend, up from 15 TPS after the last increase, according to Chainspect.
Vitalik Buterin noted that nearly half of the staked Ethereum supports the 45 million target, bolstered by recent Geth node client optimizations for safer scaling. Rising network activity underscores this momentum, with daily transactions growing from 1.1 million in April to 1.4 million, per Etherscan.
Ether’s price has also surged, hitting a seven-month high above $3,800, fueled by corporate treasury interest and ETF demand. The gas limit increase allows more transactions per block, easing congestion and supporting Ethereum’s role as a leading smart contract platform amid growing DeFi and NFT activity.
