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When Pectra activated on May 7, 2025, it quietly did something nobody was talking about: it cut the consensus-layer overhead in every beacon block by 66%. Attestations shrank from ~35 KB to ~12 KB per block overnight. Clean. Measurable. Effective.

Two months later, the gas limit increase to 45M erased the entire saving. By November, when the limit hit 60M, blocks were 40% larger than they'd ever been.

The optimization worked perfectly. It just didn't matter.

Ethereum's block gas limit doubled in 2025. Not through a hard fork. Not through a governance vote. Through three coordinated waves of validators updating their configuration files.

The limit went from 30 million to 60 million gas—a 100% increase in block capacity—between February and November 2025. Each wave moved faster than the last. The final surge, from 45M to 60M, took just 22 hours.